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Christian Thielemann

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Live from the 2018 Salzburg Easter Festival!*Tosca* by Thielemann & SKDA dramatic performance featuring Hartelos, Antonenko, and TezierA surprising finale in Strmingers production!Live footage from the 2018 Salzburg Easter Festival. The Salzburg Easter Festival was founded by Karajan in 1967. In 2013, the Staatskapelle Dresden, led by Thielemann, took over the festival from the Berlin Philharmonic, and it celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017. In 2017, to mark this milestone, a revival of Karajans production of *Die Walkre*the festivals very first performancewas staged and generated significant buzz. Then, in 2018, the festival presented Puccinis masterpiece *Tosca*. This suspenseful drama of love and desire, set in Rome in 1800, was staged in a new production directed by Michael Sturminger. This marked the first time the festival had staged the opera since the 19881989 performances b