Dresden takes over at Salzburg festival
AFP
SALZBURG- The Dresden State Orchestra will partner the Salzburg Easter Festival, organisers said Tuesday, after Berlin's Philharmonic Orchestra ended its 45-year association with the event.
The Dresden company, headed by Christian Thielemann, will perform at the festival from 2013 until at least 2017, Salzburg mayor Heinz Schaden said.
Festival director Peter Alward said last month it had not been possible to meet a demand from the orchestra headed by Sir Simon Rattle to stage four performances instead of two.
Its successors will accompany the festival's new production of Wagner's "Parsifal" in 2013 and the Strauss opera "Arabella" the following year.
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