Salzburg Festival: history and repertoire, 1922–1926 Mozart for the first season — the three Da Ponte operas and "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" [The Abduction from the Seraglio]. In the founding years the festival did not have the means to produce entire opera productions. So Strauss and Schalk brought the settings, the singers, the orchestra and the chorus from Vienna State Opera to Salzburg. The press critically noted that the opera program of the festival constituted ″the summer residence of Vienna State Opera″. Nevertheless, the performances were superb due to the orchestra, the chorus and the great singers. They came from all over Europa and created
Conal Coad Fleming, Haruhisa Handa, and Roberto Abbado at Tokyo Global Concert at the New National Theatre Tokyo in Japan. Conal has performed in "Le nozze di Figaro", "Così fan tutte", "Il Seraglio", "Die Zauberflöte", "Don Giovanni", "Don Carlo", "Falstaff", "I vespri siciliani", "Aida", "Rigoletto", "Billy Budd", "Peter Grimes", "The Rape of Lucretia", "A Midsummernight's Dream", "Let's Make an Opera", "Albert Herring", "La damnation de Faust", "Fidelio", "The Barber of Seville", "L'heure espagnole", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Don Pasquale", "L'elisir d'amore", "L'italiana in Algeri", "Il turco in Italia", "The Queen of Spades", "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria", "Norma", "Katya Kabanova", "Roméo et Juliette",