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Gloriously affirming the Salzburg Festival's long-standing reputation as a supreme musical event, this concert honours one of
its founding fathers, Richard Strauss. Renee Fleming, Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra unite for a
programme of song, opera and tone poem, genres central to the composer's extraordinarily fruitful career. Fleming interprets
four of his songs with orchestra, including the deeply moving Befreit, and provides a substantial taste of perhaps her finest
operatic role, Arabella. New vistas then open as Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic take the spectacular mountain
journey mapped by the composer in his titanic Alpine Symphony.