Salzburg

While I've visited Mozart's birthtown (which he couldn't get away from fast enough) a couple of times, it's been over a decade at least since I last got tickets for the Salzburg Festival. Until this year. Yesterday was the last day of the festival, and lo and behold, I got tickets for a matinee (tenor Jonas Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch presenting songs from Liszt, Benjamin Britten and Richard Strauss) and for the very last presentation, the Berliner Philharmoniker under Simon Rattle playing Haydn's Seasons. In between, I made a short trip to the Salzburgian countryside to visit an acquaintance. And you know what this means? Pictures!

( Salzburg. Don't even mention The Sound of Music. )