Stay safe for Strauss: Salzburg holds music festival despite coronavirus
by Shaun Walker in Budapest from on (#5661T)
World's venues will look on to see how holding a festival during the pandemic turns out
When the lights go down at Salzburg's Felsenreitschule theatre on Saturday afternoon, it won't just be the physically distanced audience that is watching closely. Many of the world's artistic venues will be looking on, to see if Salzburg has found the magic formula for holding a festival in times of coronavirus.
From Glyndebourne and Bayreuth, to Edinburgh, Cannes and Glastonbury, European festivals this summer were scratched off the calendar during spring, as soon as the severity of the coronavirus pandemic became clear.
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