It's Whitsun time in Salzburg all over again:
The 2010 Salzburg Whitsun Festival takes place from May 21 to 24 and will present masterworks from the Neapolitan School as well as an azione sacra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Betulia liberata, which will be performed by Riccardo Muti together with his Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini.
The stage director will be Marco Gandini. Riccardo Muti will juxtapose Mozart’s masterwork with the eponymous oratorio by Niccolò Jommelli, one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school.
The libretto for both settings of Betulia is by Pietro Metastasio.
(ph: set design model for Mozart´s "Betulia liberata", by Italo Grassi)