A final goodbye to this year's Salzburg Festival

Theatre-goers leaving the Haus für Mozart with Festung Hohensalzburg in the background.

 A final goodbye to this year's Salzburg Festival, I had an amazing five days, taking in three operas and two concerts, including hearing both Riccardo Muti and Daniel Barenboim in action, as well as Dmitri Tcherniakov's first Baroque opera production, an abstract kinetic staging of a bel canto masterpiece and a reworking of an unfinished Mozart opera.

• The performers invested so much in the music that we were carried away: Raphaël Pichon & Pygmalion rethink Mozart's Zaide - opera review
• Astonishing kinetic musical theatre: Donizetti's Maria Stuarda from Ulrich Rasche with Lisette Oropesa & Kate Lindsey - opera review  
• Travelling hopefully: defying age & ill health, Daniel Barenboim conducts his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - concert review
• Youthful tragedy & transcendental mystery: Riccardo Muti & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert & Bruckner - concert review 
• Strange & intriguing: Dmitri Tcherniakov directs his first Baroque opera with Handel's Giulio Cesare - opera review 

You can also catch my photographs from my sightseeing ventures on Instagram:

• Churches
• Dom Quartier (including the Residenz)
• Festung Hohensalzburg

My thanks again to the festival team for their help and support in organising the trip. More next year!