The world of sound created by Gabriel Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande, Élegie, Pavane, and the sublime Requiem
I have put all my religious imagination into my Requiem, which is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.
– Gabriel Fauré
G. FAURÉ · Pelléas et Mélisande, Suite, Op. 80
G. FAURÉ · Élegie, Op. 24
G. FAURÉ · Pavane, Op. 50
G. FAURÉ · Requiem, Op. 48
"For me, music has the task of lifting us as far as possible beyond reality," said French composer Gabriel Fauré. This describes the sound world of his works—gentle, unobtrusive, iridescent, and floating. The concert is dedicated to some of his greatest successes: it begins with the orchestral suite from the play Pelléas et Mélisande, the fourth movement of which was played at Fauré's own funeral. After the melancholic Élegie for cello and the famous Pavane, the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra and choir present Fauré's Requiem as the highlight. Fauré wrote the funeral mass not in a dramatic and theatrical style, but rather in a restrained, sensitive, weightless and comforting manner.
Judith Spießer · Soprano
Wilfried Zelinka · Baritone
Nejc Rupnik · Violoncello
Elisabeth Fuchs · Conductor
Salzburg Philharmonic Choir
Salzburg Philharmonic
Wed, March 24, 2027, 7:30 p.m. (individual tickets available from May 5)
Thu, March 25, 2027, 7:30 p.m. (individual tickets available now) *
Großer Saal Mozarteum, Salzburg
Expected concert duration approx. 120 minutes each, with interval.
Ticket prices: €18 to €76
25% discount on a 4-ticket subscription
Individual tickets available from May 5
Organizer - Tickets: Philharmonie Salzburg
* Individual tickets for this additional performance are now available and cannot be booked as part of a subscription.
Photos: © Erika Mayer, © Werner Kmetitsch, © Walter Glück, © Peter Skrlep