Reflections on a Mozart Festival in Havana: 15 Minutes with Matthias Schulz, CEO and Artistic Director of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation The opening night was a magic moment which nobody will ever forget: Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor being performed for the first time ever in Cuba! The singers were Claire Elizabeth Craig, a Salzburg trained soprano, and three young Cuban soloists. The cathedral was packed, the doors to the Plaza in front of the cathedral were open; the sound of Mozart's Mass, which has a special meaning for Salzburgians, mixed with the sounds of an island that never sleeps. The opening concert of last month's nine-day Mozart in Havana Festival, October 16, took...
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