Florentine Klepper has been Professor of Music Drama (scenic) at the Department of Opera & Music Theatre since the summer semester 2024. In the interview, she provides insights into her working methods, previous and ongoing projects and shares her thoughts on the various facets of music theatre.
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15.4.2024
On the sensual telling of stories Interview -
18.3.2024
"I was inspired to become a better performer" The singers Donata Meyer-Kranixfeld and Génesis Beatriz López Da Silva provide insights into their everyday studies at the Department of Opera & Music Theatre at the University Mozarteum. A conversation about the highs and lows on the path to becoming an opera singer.
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17.3.2024
Evil Operetta As part of the Salzkammergut Capital of Culture 2024, the Lehár Theatre in Bad Ischl, in cooperation with the Mozarteum University and the Lehár Festival, will be the venue for a short operetta festival that aims to revive the operetta condemned by the National Socialists. The aim: short, topical, critical.
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4.3.2024#summercamp24 for people interested in acting
How does one actually become an actor? How does an acting class work? This is what those interested in acting can try out for themselves for a week during the summer holidays, when the Thomas Bernhard Institute opens the doors of the university wide and sets the stage for the summer camp.
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31.1.2024
Try Out on Representation – Where do you come from? The Applied Theatre students are showing try-outs of their work in the module "On Representation - Who cares, who speaks?". Together with co-researchers, accomplices and so-called experts of everyday life, they try to find out which untold stories should be given a stage.
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31.1.2024Elegy for young lovers
"What qualities must a person possess in order to dominate both dramaturgically and vocally in an opera?" and "What must a man of mature age look like who is in close relationships with a crazy old lady, a young girl and a doctor at the same time?"
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28.1.2024
TheaterLab X 2024 Theater-interested, -enthusiastic and -newcomers are welcome! Everyone together, citizens, people who live in Salzburg, students and life artists try out together.
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23.1.2024
"I ask into the darkness of uncertainty" Alexander von Pfeil, director of the upcoming opera production "Elegy for Young Lovers" by Hans Werner Henze and professor of music drama, has thought about the piece and his production in advance and reflects on the opera's major themes in a interview.
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20.1.2024Directorial work with a focus on contemporary theatre
This winter semester, the directing students at the Thomas Bernhard Institute are developing workshop productions based on the examination of contemporary theatre texts. The content of the preparatory courses focussed on the experimental writing of authors.
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15.1.2024
"That's really great music!" Hans Werner Henze's "Elegy for Young Lovers" will be the second production in the 2023/24 winter semester of the Department of Opera & Music Theatre to take to the stage of the Max Schlereth Saal from 26 January. A conversation with maestro Gernot Sahler about so-called "new music", the major challenges for budding artists and insights into pedagogical practice during rehearsals.
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15.12.2023Hansel and Gretel
With her production, Rosamund Gilmore embarked on a journey into the subconscious and combined the deep psychological layers of the fairy tale with the film-visualized works of Claudia Lehmann's students.
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4.12.2023
Words are not always the true storytellers A conversation with director Rosamund Gilmore about Engelbert Humperdinck's fairytale play "Hansel and Gretel", which premieres on December 7 in the Max Schlereth Saal at the Mozarteum University. Insights into the directing concept, into the joint development and creation of roles and about truthfulness on the opera stage.
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23.10.2023
From the "Little Man in the Woods" to the great cantilena Starting on December 7, the Department of Opera & Music Theater, together with the voice classes and students of Claudia Lehmann, will bring Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy tale play "Hansel and Gretel" to the stage of the Max Schlereth Hall at the Mozarteum University. Five questions to the musical director of the production, Kai Röhrig.
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21.9.2023
Nomination for the DER FAUST theater award for Ebru Tartıcı Borchers Directing graduate Ebru Tartıcı Borchers is nominated for the prestigious German theater award DER FAUST 2023! The award honors outstanding artistic achievements that reflect the diversity of the theater landscape in Germany.
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1.9.2023
Working Borders Even in a hyper-eroticized society, hardly any topic is as polarizing as sex work. Whether in feminist debates, political disputes or in private conversations: everyone has an opinion about it. In Johanna Mayrhofer's master's project, sex work as a topic that has always been on the borders of our society is moved from the outskirts to the center of Salzburg in the form of an interactive audio walk.
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28.8.2023TheaterLab X 2023/24
Theater-interested, -enthusiastic and -newcomers are welcome! Everyone together, citizens, people who live in Salzburg, students and life artists try out together.
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14.7.2023
#summercamp23: Get a taste of acting for a week How does one actually become an actor? How does an acting class work? The participants were able to try this out for themselves for a week at the #summercamp23 of the Thomas Bernhard Institute, when the university opened its doors wide and it was time for very different youngsters to get on stage, get into character, #act!
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30.6.2023
Playground for Tomorrow Installative, performative and interactive work at various locations in Salzburg, as part of the Salzburg Summer Scene: If the practices of today are the basis for the life of tomorrow, we should definitely scrutinise our everyday actions. To do this, we should create room for manoeuvre where we live - in Salzburg. We are a group of five individuals who come from different places, with different ages, experiences and languages.
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30.6.2023Elissa / Dido & Aeneas
More than 330 years after the premiere of the only complete opera by Henry Purcell, the French composer Henry Fourès composes a setting for Dido and Aeneas and calls it "Elissa". A second name for the queen that allows the character to exist on its own, without direct ties to Aeneas.
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28.6.2023
Ensemble award to 4th year drama at national competition The 34th Potsdam National Competition of German-speaking Acting Students ended on June 25 with the selection of the prize winners. The "Ensemble Prize Austria" in the amount of 10,000 euros went to the 4th year acting class of the Thomas Bernhard Institute and their production of "Tartuffe".
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