2013 Salzburg Fest­iv­al:

The "Mahler Cycle" of Salzburg Fest­iv­al 2013 is opened by Mahler’s Sym­phony No. 8 in E flat con­duc­ted by Gust­avo Du­damel who leads “his” Simón Bolívar Na­tion­al Youth Or­ches­tra & Choir of Venezuela, joined by a cast of in­ter­na­tion­ally ac­claimed so­loists.

The con­cert is also part of the vis­ion­ary and ex­em­plary pro­ject EL Sis­tema (The Mir­acle), based on the vis­ion­ary idea of giv­ing chil­dren a bet­ter fu­ture through clas­sic­al mu­sic by build­ing a net­work of chil­dren or­ches­tras and mu­sic centres.

Emily Magee, sop­rano
Ju­li­ane Banse, sop­rano
Anna Pro­haska, sop­rano
Yvonne Naef, con­tralto
Birgit Rem­mert, con­tralto
Klaus Flori­an Vo­gt, ten­or
De­tlef Roth, bari­tone
Kurt Rydl, basso

Pablo Cas­tel­lanos, or­gan

Chor­is­ters of the Su­per­ar Mu­sic Ini­ti­at­ive
Ger­ald Wirth, chor­us mas­ter

Salzbur­ger Fest­spiele and Theat­er Kinder­chor
Wolfgang Götz, chor­us mas­ter

Simón Bolívar Na­tion­al Youth Choir of Venezuela
Lourdes Sánchez, chor­us mas­ter

Wien­er Singver­ein
Jo­hannes Prinz, chor­us mas­ter

Simón Bolívar Sym­phony Or­ches­tra of Venezuela
Gust­avo Du­damel, con­duct­or