An ex-Chancellor and the Swedish royal couple visited the Salzburg Festival.
The celebrity density in Salzburg is increasing: a chancellor (ex-chancellor Angela the royal couple. Merkel) and a royal couple (King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden) attended the premiere of the revival of Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice yesterday evening ” with the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli in the leading role. This also marked the start of the noble Amadeus Weekend, during which an illustrious group of people gather every year in Salzburg to enjoy the festival and culinary delights arrives.
And here the ex-Chancellor closes. Together with her husband Joachim the circle to the Swedish Sauer as well as the Austrian ex-politician Martin Bartenstein and his wife Ilse she disappeared – almost unseen in the courtyard.
The event for the rich and beautiful is organized by Eva O’Neill, who was born in Carinthia. Mother-in-law of the Swedish king’s daughter Princess Madeleine. The arrival of the royal couple beforehand at the Hotel Goldener Hirsch was striking, because the king drove the red power BMW himself.
The appearance of the Germans was less magnificent.
Also seen among the illustrious guests: Matthias and Alexandra Winkler, who also hosted the nightly premiere party at the Hotel Sacher Salzburg, Prince Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe and Bianca Jagger. Best dressed once again: fashion designer Caroline Sinemus. Franz Neumayer
