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News … Home News Review ARCO 2021 That was ARCO 2021! 19.07.2021 News © Universität Mozarteum That was ARCO - Art, Research & Creation Opus 2021! The bi-national academy ARCO is dedicated to musical creation in the field of contemporary composition / interpretation and is a cooperation between the University Mozarteum Salzburg and gmem CNCM marseille as well as the French Ensemble Multilatérale, Les Métaboles and TANA Quartet. This second edition of the festival took place in Marseille from July 8 to 17, organized by G.M.E.M. - Centre National de Création Musicale. Twelve young composers* from all over the world participated, as well as two student string quartets and an assistant conductor. The coaches were Elisabeth Gutjahr, Johannes Maria Staud, Henry Fourès, Christian Sebille, Yann Robin and Eva Reiter.   Next year at the University Mozarteum Salzburg!  More about ARCO Skip slider © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum Jump to slider start

News … Home News 14. International Mozart Competition of the Mozarteum University 14. International Mozart Competition of the Mozarteum University 22.01.2020 Press release Sandra Steindl © Christian Schneider The Mozart Competition of the Mozarteum University Salzburg from February 1 to 15, 2020 is one of the most important international music competitions - for many young musicians it gave and gives a decisive impulse to an international career. Under the artistic direction and jury chairmanship of Benjamin Schmid, Pavel Gililov and Hansjörg Angerer and the overall direction of Hannfried Lucke, it will be held in 2020 in the violin and piano sections and, for the first time, in the horn section. Commissioned by the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Florian Willeitner (violin), Krzysztof Meyer (piano) as well as Michael Kapsner (horn) composed pieces that will be premiered during the 2nd competition rounds. Since its premiere in 1975, the International Mozart Competition of the Mozarteum University Salzburg has been one of the major music competitions worldwide. It takes place in a biennial rhythm - in 2016 the focus was on violin and piano, in 2018 on string quartet and voice. in 2020, in addition to violin and piano, a competition for horn will be held for the first time. "Mozart wrote four important horn concertos, so this year we have also included this instrument," says Hannfried Lucke, Vice Rector for Arts at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. Highly endowed prizes await the first-place winners in all three categories, as well as numerous special prizes - 1st place is awarded 10,000 euros, 2nd place 7000 euros and 3rd place 5000 euros. Of the 182 applicants from 37 countries, 81 participants from 23 countries have been admitted to the 2020 competition - they will each face a top-class jury of seven. "The International Mozart Competition has a long tradition and history and is a flagship for the Mozarteum University and for Salzburg as a location. It has been established over the years in order to make the Mozart genius loci visible to the outside world," explains Hannfried Lucke. "My special thanks go to Benjamin Schmid, Pavel Gililov and Hansjörg Angerer, who have made themselves available as jury chairmen for this most important and largest competition of the University Mozarteum Salzburg." Mozart's works are special touchstones of technical ability and stylistic quality for the young musicians. They are naturally the focus of the Mozart Competition. The commissioned works that the candidates will interpret in the 2nd round were composed by violinist, composer and arranger Florian Willeitner ("To be Mozart or not to be"), by Polish composer, pianist, music theorist and university teacher Krzysztof Meyer ("Bagatelle for piano" ), and by German composer, organist, conductor and music educator Michael Kapsner ("Fa(n)FaRe for horn and piano"). Schedule: Violin division: 1-5 February 2020 Artistic direction and jury chair: Benjamin Schmid Competition (solitaire): 1.2. 1st round 17.00-21.00 2.2. 1st round 10.00-14.00 4.2. 2. Round 10.00-14.00 and 16.00-20.00 5.2. Final Concert Violin (Great Hall), 19.00  With the Salzburg Orchestra Soloists / Conductor: Tibor Bogányi   Division Piano: 6.-11 February 2020  Artistic direction and jury chair: Pavel Gililov Competition (Solitaire): 6.2.  1st round 10.00-13.00 and 16.00-19.00 7.2.  1st round 10.00-13.00 and 16.00-19.00 8.2.  2nd round 10.00-14.00 and 16.00-20.00 a.m. 10.2. 3rd round 10.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. 11.2. final concert piano (Great Hall), 7.00 p.m.  With the Salzburg Orchestra Soloists / Conductor: Tibor Bogányi   Horn Division: February 11-15, 2020 Artistic Director and Jury Chair: Hansjörg Angerer Competition (Solitaire): 11.2. 1st round horn 5.00 p.m.-2.00 p.m. 12.2. 1st Round Horn 10.00-14.00 and 16.00-20.00 13.2. 1st Round Horn 10.00-14.00 14.2. 2nd Round Horn 10.00-14.00 and 16.00-20.00 15.2. Final Concert Horn (Great Hall), 19.00  With the Salzburg Orchestra Soloists / Conductor: Tibor Bogányi   All competition rounds free admission.  

The 1st prize in the piano division (Bösendorfer Prize), the "Audiodata Audience Award" and the special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Wolfgang A. Mozart went to the Austrian Elisabeth Waglechner, who studies with Stefan Vladar at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she was accepted into the highly gifted course with Alma Sauer at the age of 12 and studied with Christopher Hinterhuber.

Andreas Scholl is one of the best and most renowned countertenors in the world. A conversation about his endowed professorship at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, his musical roots and the very special moments of his career.

Matthias Bartolomey has been professor of concert violoncello at the Mozarteum University since October - and he has a lot planned for the future, starting with a course on progressive playing techniques in addition to repertoire teaching, which combines his diverse chamber music and soloist experience with new, intuitive improvisational approaches.

Research … Home Research With Dylan On The Road With Dylan On The Road © Michael Klimt Skip page navigation Overview Gallery Archive Get in touch! Return to slider start With "With Dylan On The Road", the Mozarteum University, together with The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg, offers students of all disciplines the unique opportunity to go on a journey with a scholarship in their luggage to develop art projects inspired by Bob Dylan. An initiative of the Research Management Department Responsible for content and concept: Eugen Banauch About "With Dylan On The Road" invites students to rethink "university" and to engage in a discourse of artistic research, learning and doing with the polyartist Bob Dylan - outside their comfort zones. For the application, there were specifications regarding a limited duration of the trip, the form of the project submission and an invitation to submit an interdisciplinary idea. The rest: open. Following the successful first edition of "With Dylan On The Road" in 2022, the project inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan will enter the next round in 2024. I was born very far away from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home Bob Dylan (1941) is a musician, poet, filmmaker, producer and visual artist working in a variety of genres. His work has left its mark on all areas of global culture and has influenced and moulded artists in many different ways. Bob Dylan has received widespread attention for his work, which has absorbed, transcended and transformed existing forms, genres and conventions, and not just since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. We understand his work and biography as a "message in a bottle". This floats in the oceans of rock, folk, blues and pop and always in "old, weird America" (Greil Marcus) and invites us to engage in an inspiring dialogue within the framework of self-determined artistic creation. Having been "on the road" himself throughout his life, the study of this exceptional artist suggests extraordinary approaches. In the spirit of his "Never Ending Tour", which began in 1988, we therefore invite you to literally take to the road yourself and artistically explore aspects of his work and his life's journey. Students go on the journey themselves, because the artistic process is just as important as the work and the individual needs to enter into new worlds of experience. With Dylan On The Road 2 Nach der erfolgreichen ersten Edition von „With Dylan On The Road“ 2022 geht das vom Polyartisten Bob Dylan inspirierte Projekt in die nächste Runde. Im Frühjahr 2024 vergab die Universität Mozarteum wieder Reisestipendien für Bob-Dylan-inspirierte künstlerische und künstlerische-wissenschaftliche Teamprojekte, die ersten Teams sind bereits seit Mai 2024 „on the road“. Projekte 2024 Emma Ebmeyer & Bariş Özbük: „Unrooted“Was bedeutet Familie für dich und welche Rolle spielen dabei Bluts- und Wahlverwandschaften? Wir reisen von Salzburg nach Istanbul, wo ein Teil von Bob Dylans Wurzeln liegen und von dort aus zu unseren eigenen Familien. Auf der Reise möchten wir Menschen begegnen, um über das Verständnis von Familie ins Gespräch zu kommen. Roue: Salzburg - Istanbul Carina Jenewein & Hanna Steinlechner: „Echoes of Dylan“Wahrscheinlich kein Land wird so oft in Verbindung mit dem Instrument Harfe gebracht wie Irland. Für uns als Harfenistinnen übt dieses Land allein deshalb schon eine Faszination aus. Auch Bob Dylan galt als großer Bewunderer der irischen Musik und hat irische Volkslieder und Gedichte in seinen Songs vertont. Ähnlich wie er wollen wir uns auf die irische Volkskultur einlassen, irische Spielweisen und Besonderheiten kennenlernen, dokumentieren und in unser künstlerisches Schaffen einfließen lassen. Mit unseren Instrumenten im Gepäck begeben wir uns auf der grünen Insel auf die Spuren Bob Dylans! Route: Dublin – Kilkenny – Waxford – Galway – Cliffs of Moher – Dingle – Belfast - Dublin Alek Niemiro & Laura Trilsam: „Bob Dylan – Masters of War“Ausgehend von Bob Dylans Welttournee-Auftakt im Jahr 1978 in der Nippon Hall Budoka in Tokio begeben sich Laura Trilsam und Alek Niemiro auf eine Reise durch Japan. Auf dieser Reise soll ein Kurzfilm entstehen, der sich in Form assoziativer Bild- und Toncollagen mit der vielschichtigen Kultur Japans, seiner Geschichte und seinem Zeitgeist auseinandersetzt. Route: Tokio - Osaka - Noashima - Teshima - Hiroshima - Tokio Judith Musil & Rosa Schwarz: „textile shift“Judith Musil und Rosa Schwarz begeben sich auf eine Reise durch Skandinavien, um Antworten auf Fragen zu finden, die Bob Dylan in seinen Liedtexten stellt. Die Antworten werden in Form vom assoziativen Prosagedichten auf Stoffbänder geschrieben, verhäkelt und performativ gelesen – eine Verbindung von Text und Textil. Route: Kopenhagen - Göteborg - Oslo  - Bergen  - Stockholm - Malmö Nogati Udayana & Joseph Lang: „Is It All Over Now, Baby Blue? - Ein Song zwischen Seoul und San Francisco“Wir, Nogati Udayana und Joseph Lang, studieren Szenografie und Schauspiel an der Universität Mozarteum. Nach mehreren gemeinsamen Arbeiten wollen wir nun mit unserem Projekt „Is It All Over Now, Baby Blue? - Ein Song zwischen Seoul und San Francisco“ zwei Orte erkunden, die sowohl für die Politisierung von Bob Dylan und Joan Baez als auch für unsere Familien eine große Rolle spielen. Mittels ausschließlich analoger Technologien wollen wir unsere Reise dokumentieren und so einen multimedialen Song schreiben. Route: Seoul & San Francisco Clara Elixmann & Toni Ofner: „POWER UP“Das Projekt POWER UP beschäftigt sich mit Kunst als Protestmittel. Eine mobile Siebdruckstation wird Demoteilnehmer*innen in verschiedenen Städten als Werkzeug der Selbstermächtigung zur Verfügung gestellt. POWER UP trägt damit aktiv zum demokratischen Dialog bei. Route: Glasgow (Printstudio: Treffen mit Ros Lawless und praktische Auseinandersetzung) - Demonstrationen und Workshops in unterschiedlichen deutschsprachigen Städten, z.B. in Berlin, München, Wien und Salzburg Simon Kantner & Maurice Cazzoli: „Ecophonic Atelier“Ecophonic Atelier beschäftigt sich mit der Produktion einer audio-visuellen Performance. Die Reise nach Island dient hierzu als Inspirationsquelle für Soundscapes und generative Visualisierungen. Route: Umfahrung der Insel Johannes Brömmel & Jakob Schulte: „Something's happening, but you don't know what it is (Ballad of a thin man)“Ein Gefühl steter Ungewissheit, ein Portrait unserer Zeit. Wir stehen vor Veränderungen, welche niemand vorhersehen oder abschätzen kann. Wie lässt sich das einfangen? Wie lässt sich ein Narrativ, eine Erzählung, ein Bild finden, das uns hilft, einen Zugang, eine Fantasie zu entwickeln, über das, was bevorsteht? – Wie lässt sich eine neue Folklore, eine neue „Mythologie“ schaffen, die unserer Zeit gerecht wird? Und: Wie und wieso funktioniert das in Japan? In einer 5-wöchigen Reise – durch die ländlichen, unscheinbaren Orte – sammeln wir Informationen, Video- und Audioaufnahmen von Tempeln, Paraden, Gedenkfeiern und schlichten Alltäglichkeiten, um verschiedenen traditionellen wie zeitgenössischen Umgangsweisen mit Folklore zu begegnen. Aus diesen gesammelten Eindrücken entsteht eine installative Performance, in der mythologische Wesen und Figuren durch Schauspiel, Tanz, Musik und Video auf unsere Zeit aufschlagen. Route: Osaka - Kyoto - Sapporo Chiara Gruber & Susanne Schimmerl: „Do(nt) look back“Unser dreiteiliges Projekt „Do(nt) look back“ beschäftigt sich anhand von Straßeninterviews mit der Präsenz Bob Dylans Schaffen und Person in der heutigen Gesellschaft. Durch Interviews werden Melodien gesammelt, die zu einer gemeinsamen Audiospur verbunden werden, zu der durch Eindrücke der Reise auch ein Musikvideo entsteht, sowie ein Cover aus Zeichnungen, die in den Interviews entstehen, die die Reise und somit das Projekt abrunden. Route: London - Manchester - Newcastle - Birmingham - Leicester - Liverpool - Sheffield - London Lenni Hofer & Samuel Obernosterer: „Feed the document“Is it time to go Elektrik? Inmitten von carbon capture und batteriebetriebenen Containerschiffen, archivieren Lenni Hofer und Samuel Obernosterer die Sedimente des Klimadiskurses. Ihre Auseinandersetzungen mit Bergbau und Landwirtschaft präsentieren sie essayistisch in einer Mehrkanal-AV-Installation. Route: Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien, Portugal Press   20.8.2025, Radio FRO Linz (Anna Jungwirt)Häkelnadel und wort:netz bei TEXTERosa Schwarz und Judith Musil erzählen von ihrem Projekt "textile shift" 15.12.2023, Salzburger Nachrichten (Martin Behr)Im Geiste Bob Dylans auf Reisen gehen und kreativ sein News With Dylan On The Road II 14.11.2024 With Dylan On The Road II  The ‘With Dylan on the Road’ travel grant was conceived for the first time in 2022, enabling artistic teams to travel in the footsteps of Bob Dylan and develop projects. The trips took them to European countries as well as (North and South) American and African countries and brought back a variety of artistic works, from performance to song, from graphic work to theatre pieces, from video installations to artistically sophisticated documentation. With ‘With Dylan on the Road 2’, the Asian region (Japan, Korea, but also Turkey) is now also included in the above-mentioned geographical area, or rather opened up by the ten new artistic-scientific projects. Student project With Dylan on the Road: Call 2024 15.11.2023 With Dylan on the Road: Call 2024  After the successful first edition of "With Dylan on the Road", a competitive travel scholarship program of the Mozarteum University, the project inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan is entering the next round. News With Dylan on the Road - Bringing it all back home 6.10.2022 With Dylan on the Road - Bringing it all back home  Inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan and his approaches of appropriation and transformation, nine artistic-explorative teams of two from the Mozarteum University were on the road in South Africa, the US, Mexico, Europe and Latin America during the first half of 2022. The results are nine art projects that will be premiered on October 14 and 15 as part of Jazz & The City, accompanied by a symposium "Inspired by ... commemorating 60 Years of Bob Dylan.". News Controlled loss of control 11.6.2022 Controlled loss of control  With the project "With Dylan On The Road" the Mozarteum University together with The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg offers students the unique opportunity to go on a journey with a scholarship in their luggage to develop art projects inspired by Bob Dylan. Student project Gallery Skip slider © Kantner/Cazzoli © David Prokop © Alek Niemiro / Laura Trilsam © Musil/Schwarz © Emma Ebmeyer © Fabian Schober © Christian Schneider © Felix Buschbeck Jump to slider start Support Many thanks to The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg  and its generous members. Special thanks go to Prof Dr Max M. Schlereth, Dipl.-Ing. Christian Dreyer, MBA, Dr Marie-Christine von Ungern-Sternberg and Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg. Archive With Dylan On The Road 1 - Projects With "Living Dylan's Mozambique", guitarists Felix Buschbeck and Angus Garway-Tempelman set off on a journey to Mozambique. They explore African rhythms and integrate them into percussive fingerstyle playing to create their own Dylan-inspired content. NEVERENDINGARTIST (Isabella Heigl, painting and Agustín Castilla-Ávila, music): "We want to facilitate the understanding of transdisciplinarity and propose our own classification based on our artistic practice: according to who practices which discipline with which objects." "... even the birds are chained to the sky." Disguised as a road movie, this free-form documentary by Magdalena Hofer and Samuel Obernosterer compares the utopian ideas inscribed in society with Dylan with an ever-approaching future. Based on Dylan's search for his homeland, encounters and exchange are the central driving force behind Elena Lengauer and Leonie Lindinger's journey. They immerse themselves in Bob Dylan's reception and points of contact in South America. Their impressions can be experienced visually as a video essay and pictorial-photographic-linguistic diary excerpts. Gerlinde Radler and Monika Eliette Jandl are travelling to Spain as the duo CORIMEJ with "Blowin' in the Wind" in a VW bus and an organically growing, experimental exhibition format. They collect messages from artists of all genres and bring a piece of zeitgeist back home. Lara Schnepf and Lukas Stangl hike through Normandy: "There are 357 kilometres, old railway tracks, coastal paths, the sea and two pairs of "Boots of Spanish Leather" between the start and end point. What happens in between and where do we end up?" Paulina Maike Strobel and Alina Hausmann use "The Times They Are A-Changin'" to ask themselves how they can take an artistic stance on current socio-political issues such as the climate crisis. They visit places where major climate policy conflict issues manifest themselves. Antigoni Baxe and Zuzanna Wężyk are also devoting themselves to Dylan's song "Boots of Spanish Leather": "In Spain, we want to find out how culture has influenced Dylan's music and bring his work to the classical guitar stage." "Never mind mummy (we're just bleeding)": Inspired by Dylan's all-absorbing gaze, Carla Schmutter and Henry Schlage want to poetically process their own experiences in an evening of theatre that invites the audience to find reflective sympathy with a world in which they themselves are at home. With Dylan On The Road 1 - Press   23.5.2022, Kulturport.de Studieren auf Reisen - With Bob Dylan on the road   24.5.2022, Salzburger Nachrichten (Thomas Neuhold) Salzburger Mozarteum mit Bob Dylan "on the road"   14.10.2022, Salzburger Nachrichten (Anna Boschner) Studierende auf Reisen: "In den Schuhen" von Bob Dylan durch die Normandie   14.10.2022, Ö1 (Radiobeitrag) Intrada - Österreichichs Musizierende im Porträt   17.10.2022, Salzburger Nachrichten (Bernhard Flieher) Universität Mozarteum on the road mit Bob Dylan: Eine akademische Bobisierung

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.

News … Home News Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: La Finta Semplice Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: La finta semplice 02.05.2018 Opera production © Judith Buss Skip page navigation Overview About production Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Seduction, intrigue, blackmail - LA FINTA SEMPLICE is a turbulent love tangle by Carlo Goldoni, the Molière-trained inventor of the dramma giocoso, and Mozart, twelve years old, develops from it an opera in which his later musico-dramatic mastery is already palpable. Musical direction Gernot Sahler Scenic direction Alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes yea Eun Hong & Yvonne Schäfer Dramaturgy Malte Krasting Music chamber Orchestra of the Mozarteum University About production A country estate near Cremona. Cassandro, a misogynistic nobleman, oppresses his love-hungry brother Polidoro and forbids his sister Giacinta to marry. The Hungarian captain Fracasso, who has taken up residence with them, so far unsuccessfully courts her hand in marriage. Rosina, his pretty and clever sister, is chosen to ensnare the two brothers so that Fracasso and Giacinta can reach their goal. She is supposed to wrap the brothers around her finger with feigned simplicity ("finta semplice"), play them off against each other and thus make the union possible - at least that is the plan of the housemaid Ninetta, who has her sights set on the stubborn soldier Simone. The premiere, which was planned for Vienna, was thwarted by many; the work was probably first performed on stage in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's native city at the beginning of May 1769. Dates & Cast Performance dates 3. May 2018, 7 p.m. May 4, 2018, 7 p .m. May 5, 2018, 5 p.m. Max Schlereth Hall   Cast FRACASSO: Niklas Matthias Mayer | Johannes Hubmer  ROSINA: Ayse Senogul |  Himani Grundström DON POLIDORO: Gabriel Arce | Santiago Sanchez DON CASSANDRO: Daniel Weiler GIACINTA: Ines Rocha Constantino | Katrin Heles NINETTA: Paula Bohnet | Sejin Park SIMONE: Clemens Joswig | Konstantin Riedl Other productions Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi 20.5.2026 Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi  Two one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini, based on libretti by Giovacchino Forzano – one tragic, the other comic – hold up a mirror to society through the lens of art. Together, they offer a multifaceted exploration of the interplay between social structures and individual choices. In their production of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, both premiered in New York in 1918, Florentine Klepper and Kai Röhrig’s opera class invited the audience to engage in a thought experiment: How does a society react when its values, norms, and boundaries are put to the test? Opera production Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. Opera production Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue 15.12.2025 Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue  Through purgatory to paradise – two voices of resistance. Two works – two perspectives on the unimaginable. Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of art and human resilience. An evening full of intensity, musical beauty and profound humanity. Opera production Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 15.12.2024 Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi  The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity. Opera production More news

News … Home News Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream 21.06.2018 Opera production © Christian Schneider Skip page navigation Overview About production Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Turmoil in the fairy kingdom: the ruling couple Oberon and Titania have fallen out over a boy whom they both jealously claim for their own. Oberon instructs his confidant Puck to bring a certain herb, the juice of which, when dribbled into the eyes of a sleeping person, will make him fall in love with the first person he sees when he wakes up. In this way he wants to punish Titania for her infidelity... Musical Director Kai Röhrig Scenic Director Karoline Gruber Stage Charlina Lucas & Amelie Ottmann Costumes Egon Stocchi Dramaturgy Ronny Dietrich Music Symphony Orchestra of the Mozarteum University About production Puck, however, also catches two wandering lovers with this magic formula, who now fall in love in completely the wrong constellation, which leads to a total love mess. Now it's up to Puck to set things straight. Initially unaffected by these events, six craftsmen in the realm of the elves are rehearsing the comic tragedy Pyramus and Thisbe , which they want to perform on the occasion of the upcoming wedding of their sovereign. But they too get caught up in the confusion of this midsummer night. Night, forest, a fairytale-like subject with elves, fairies and ghosts - preferred themes of the Romantic period are so frequently anticipated in hardly any other work of world literature as in Shakespeare's  A Midsummer Night's Dream  from 1595. It is not surprising that this comedy has inspired numerous composers to set it to music. For example, Henry Purcell wrote his opera  The Fairy Queen  and Ambroise Thomas his opera  Le songe d'une nuit d'été based on Shakespeare's original. Felix Mendelssohn created his famous overture and incidental music (including the wedding march) to  A Midsummer Night's Dream  and Carl Maria von Weber used elements of the material for his romantic opera  Oberon . Benjamin Britten, on the occasion of his festival in Aldeburgh in 1960, took up this material and formed a three-act opera from the five-act play, adopting Shakespeare's language almost verbatim. Britten found specific sound spaces for each of the magical and human spheres. Thus the different levels of rulers, lovers, craftsmen and elves are also characterized musically in very different ways. In addition, there are numerous allusions to operatic history in the score, culminating in the performance of the craftsmen in the third act: Britten presents the performance of the play  Pyramus and Thisbe  as a parody of Italian opera. Dates & Cast Performance dates 21. June 2018, 7:00 p.m. June 23, 2018, 5 :00 p.m. June 25, 2018, 7:00 p.m. Max Schlereth Hall   Cast OBERON: Tolga Siner TYTANIA: Karina Benalcazar, Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns PUCK: Augustin Groz THESEUS: Clemens Joswig HIPPOLYTA: Reba Evans LYSANDER: Alexander Rewinski DEMETRIUS: Chi-An Chen HERMIA: Maria Hegele, Zsofia Mozer HELENA: Wendy Krikken, Mariya Taniguchi BOTTOM: Felix Mischitz QUINCE: Di Guan FLUTE: Sascha Zarrabi SNUG: Max Tavella SNOUT: Richard Glöckner STARVELING: Jakob Hoffmann FAIRIES: Laura Barthel, Adelheid Caroline Baumgartner, Bettina Meiners, Donata Valerie Meyer-Kranixfeld, Silvia Moroder, Leonie Stoiber Other productions Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi 20.5.2026 Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi  Two one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini, based on libretti by Giovacchino Forzano – one tragic, the other comic – hold up a mirror to society through the lens of art. Together, they offer a multifaceted exploration of the interplay between social structures and individual choices. In their production of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, both premiered in New York in 1918, Florentine Klepper and Kai Röhrig’s opera class invited the audience to engage in a thought experiment: How does a society react when its values, norms, and boundaries are put to the test? Opera production Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. 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News … Home News Wait with Tan Dun and rehearse tea … Wait with Tan Dun and rehearse tea 05.12.2020 News © Christian Schneider For his music to Ang Lee's wuxia drama "Tiger and Dragon," Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun was awarded an Oscar in 2000. His opera "Tea: A Mirror of Soul" would have premiered on December 2 at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. It is still uncertain whether it can be staged on December 19 in front of an audience or only in a livestream. Everything begins with a low A, with the dark, standing sound of the double basses, whose frequencies are reminiscent of mystical natural sounds. Then high-frequency waterphones, a shadow, a Tibetan singing bowl and suddenly, as if from the distant past, a voice, a melody. From a minimum of material, language, movement, opera are gradually formed - everything arises from little. Tan Dun works here like a magician of sound, whose magic reminds Kai Röhrig, Professor of Music Dramatic Design at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, of Richard Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen," especially "Das Rheingold." "It begins at the bottom of the Rhine, and from this composed primal sound everything else emerges." The beginning draws one not only into Tan Dun's sound world, but immediately into the story: in a tea ceremony in ancient Kyoto, a monk drinks from an empty teacup and remembers his self ten years ago. In a kind of reenactment, the ceremony, the conscious experience of the ritual, acts as a trigger that confronts him with his painful memories. The tea ceremony has a high value in Asian culture. At the same time, it is associated with something social, sensual and philosophical. It forms the climax of an encounter and celebrates respectful togetherness, having to do with appreciation and mindfulness. "Our Asian students in particular flourish in the production because they can tell us something about the traditions of their homeland," says Kai Röhrig. "The opera is also extremely melodic and cantabile, reminiscent of works by Puccini, for example his ' Turandot ' or ' Madama Butterfly ' , both of which are also set in Asia. Opera voices who love Italian vocal music will feel at home with Tan Dun. More than that, Tan Dun's music has a stylistic openness and accessibility unusual for contemporary opera. He is a bridge builder of cultures. He wants to reach people and has great success in doing so. The subtitle ' A Mirror of Soul ' thus also applies to the music - one senses how students can draw from it and discover themselves in the process. That the ensemble has caught fire incredibly for this opera, of course, makes me very happy." Since the teaching content of the master's degree program in "Opera and Musical Theater" includes working on an opera production on stage with an orchestra and performing the opera in front of an audience as part of the master's examination, the university has made an immense security effort in recent months to make these study performances possible. "The university's rectorate and security management have been totally supportive from the beginning - all levers have been pulled to make sure we can teach our subjects despite Covid-19. It also makes you realize once again the complexity of making opera. It's about working on the voice, the language and the expression, and at the same time bringing all these aspects together in cooperation. An opera production cannot be realized online. It can simply only be done in analog and in presence. So in addition to the lack of an audience, the opera and theater industry is currently also suffering from the limitations in its day-to-day work," Kai Röhrig sums up. Following the example of the Salzburg Festival, the entire team and ensemble were tested weekly until the second lockdown, and contact persons had to interrupt rehearsals for 10 days. So far, there has been no positive case in the ensemble. "We have hope that we will be able to rehearse again from December 7 and have the premieres of the two casts on December 19 and 20. If it has to be without an audience, the performances will at least be recorded and shown as online premieres on the university's website on December 22 and January 6 at 7 pm. We would then have had only a three-week interruption, and the ensemble would be able to resume rehearsals rested and focused, and return to the opera stage. Above all, for the participants, all the budding singers and the symphony orchestra of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, I would wish that 'Tea' could actually be performed and reach many audiences*. The students have invested a lot of time, heart and soul and above all discipline in this project - also with regard to minimizing their social contacts during the rehearsal period," says Kai Röhrig. Until then, Tan Dun says, we'll have to wait and see. To the production Tan Dun: Tea - A Mirror of Soul 19.12.2020 Tan Dun: Tea - A Mirror of Soul  Opera production

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