Not 100% as advertised and very short, but fun (especially if you speak German)
Whoever prepared the blurb and packaging of this 24-minute black and white German-language documentary film (no English subtitles!) didn't know either the German language or classical music particularly well, so the description is not 100% accurate.
The title SHOULD have been "Austrian Summer Music Festivals, 1951" and not "The Salzburg Festival, 1945-1955," since the film concentrates on events that occurred in 1951 only, and contains no other footage earlier or later than 1951.
From the 1951 Salzburg Festival, we get to see some nicely chosen snippets of both musical and dramatic events, including a bit from Hugo von Hofmannsthal's morality play JEDERMAN ("Everyman") and Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT (in the German translation as WIE EUCH GEFAELLT), as well as scenes from Mozart's operas IDOMENEO (conducted by Solti that year) and THE MAGIC FLUTE (conducted by Furtwaengler), plus a bit of one of Rudolf Paumgartner's Mozart "Serenade" concerts. We also get to see...
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