Franz Wilser-Most has to cancel because of the song “Macbeth”.

Star conductor Franz Wilser-Most must undergo medical treatment for a severe bone disease. This was announced by the Salzburg Festival on Monday. However, the 62-year-old is confident he will be able to conduct the August 20-21 concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Grand Festival Hall as planned.

“The Salzburg Festival is extremely grateful to Philip Jourdain for agreeing on such short notice to take over the musical direction of this year’s new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski,” according to a broadcast from the Salzburg Festival.

Philip Jordan has been Music Director of the Vienna State Opera since 2020, directing nine new works from Mozart to Alban Berg. Prior to that he was Music Director of the Paris National Opera and Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra for twelve years. Jordan has performed in all the major opera houses and festivals and with all the major orchestras in the world.

He was at the Salzburg Festival for the first time in 2004 with the new production of Mozart’s opera “Così fan tutte” and then in 2013 with the concert performance of Wagner’s “Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes” as well as in orchestra concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic and Gustav Mahler’s Youth Orchestra and the Salzburg Mozartium Orchestra.

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