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Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.

Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.

Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.

Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.

Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.

Presentation of works by female composers for classical guitar in solo and chamber music instrumentation

No Person. Lisandro Abadie was born in Buenos Aires, where he began his vocal studies. He continued his training in Switzerland at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the Lucerne School of Music and was honoured with the Edwin Fischer Memorial Prize in 2006. Abadie has performed under the direction of renowned conductors such as William Christie, Laurence Cummings, Václav Luks, Francesco Corti, Rubén Dubrovsky, Tōnu Kaljuste, Andreas Reize, Jordi Savall, Paul Agnew, Skip Sempé, Vincent Dumestre and Geoffroy Jourdain. He has worked with numerous important ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants, Collegium 1704, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Poème Harmonique, La Tempête, Ensemble Inégal, La Risonanza and a nocte temporis. He has collaborated with the lutenist Mónica Pustilnik and the pianist and composer Paul Suits and has performed several stage projects with the director Benjamin Lazar. His most recent stage productions include Charpentier's ‘Médée’, Rossini's ‘La Cenerentola’, ‘Arsilda’, Monteverdi's trilogy, ‘Alcione’, ‘Phaëton’, ‘L'Europe Galante’ and ‘Les Fées du Rhin’. Recordings of his interpretations include Handel's ‘Siroe’, Lully's ‘Phaëton’ and ‘Cadmus et Hermione’, Handel's ‘Music for Queen Caroline’, Pasquini's ‘L'ombra di Solimano’ (bass cantatas), Monteverdi's madrigals, ‘Vespro’ and ‘L'incoronazione di Poppea’. A total of around 60 CD and DVD recordings as well as numerous TV and internet broadcasts of his work as a soloist have been documented. In addition to his stage career, Abadie also devotes himself to research and writing on the history of singing and vocal technique. He is intensively involved in teaching and gives masterclasses with William Christie in Thiré, at the Balthasar Neumann Academy in Fontainebleau and La Habana as well as at conservatories in France and Germany. He is also active at the Monteverdi Madrigal Week in Venice. In 2024, he made his debut at the Opéra de Paris and the Teatro Real in Madrid in Charpentier's ‘Médée’ under the direction of William Christie. He has been teaching at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis since 2019.

A concert about the magic, the vulnerability and the future of our children. An evening that makes us think about what we want to expect of our children. Conductor: Andreas Martin Hofmeir

No Person. He has gathered a wealth of teaching experience through his work with members of the opera studio at the Bavarian State Opera, and is also a regular guest lecturer at the opera studio of the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. He was worked as a répeétiteur and musical assistant with numerous ensembles, festivals and theatres, including the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), the Puccini Opera festival (Torre del Lago), the Teatro Pavarotti (Modena), Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (Brussels), Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), the Stanislavsky Theatre (Moscow) and the Teatro Campoamor (Oviedo). His conducting engagements have led to collaborations such as the CD recording “Ave Maria” with the Roma Sinfonietta and tenor Vittorio Grigolo (Sony Classical). He has conducted a number of productions at the Landestheater Niederbayern (Passau), including Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Roberto Devereux and the new production of Händel's Xerxes. His will begin his teaching at the Mozarteum University's Opera Department in the winter semester 2025/6.

Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.

Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.

After their first concert at the end of May, musical director Kai Röhrig and flautist Leona Rajakowitsch, founding members of the newly formed ensemble for contemporary music at the Mozarteum University, and composer Anna Skladannaya reflect on the potential and significance of new music - with a view to more to come.

News … Home News George Frideric Handel: Alcina George Frideric Handel: Alcina 05.12.2017 Opera production Skip page navigation Overview About production Livestream Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Ruggiero has fallen for Alcina, who is said to possess magical powers and to transform lovers on her island into animals, springs and rocks. Ruggiero's fiancée Bradamante invades Alcina's kingdom disguised as a man and tries to recapture Ruggiero and destroy Alcina's power. Music director Gernot Sahler Stage director Alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes Eric Droin & Anna Brandstätter Music Chamber orchestra of the University Mozarteum About production With this magic opera in 1735, Handel once again builds on his earlier triumphs in London.  The libretto is borrowed from the crusader epic "Orlando furioso" by Ariost and revolves around the Circe myth, also already worked on by Homer, in which stranded heroes are first made happy with love by a sorceress and then transformed into animals. "I have the impression that the strictly emblematic characteristics of the baroque dramaturgy give way in "Alcina" in favor of a dramatic meaningfulness. As far as the genre is concerned, Handel combines this approach, which is modern for us, with a recourse: he turns again to the magic theme, which was almost frowned upon. This allows him to break open the canon, to give space to the irrational, the fantastic and the abysmal, the despair. The piece is about doubt in the world, about the insolubility of things. For this deeply melancholic approach Handel finds again and again new forms of expression - he leaves the terrain of predictability.... " (Alexander von Pfeil) Dates & Cast Performance dates 5. December 2017, 19.00 6. December 2017, 19.00 7. December 2017, 19.00 9. December 2017, 17.00 max Schlereth Hall   Cast ALCINA: Ayse Senogul, Ezgi Güngör MORGANA: Himani Grundström, Laura Incko RUGGIERO: Ines Constantino, Katrin Heles OBERTO: Anne Reich, Sejin Park ORONTE: Santiago Sanchez, Nuttaporn Thammathi BRADAMANTE: Neelam Brader, Melissa Zgouridi, Ekaterina Bocharova (St.Af.) MELISSO: Daniel Weiler, Jakob Mitterrutzner Other productions 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 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production Elegy for young lovers 31.1.2024 Elegy 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?" Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte 21.5.2023 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte  The young officers Ferrando and Guilelmo* do not want to let their fatherly friend Don Alfonso get away with it - after all, he doubts the fidelity of their fiancée! But instead of the demanded duel, they accept his proposal of a wager and thus become handmaidens in the work of destroying their love relationships. Opera production More news

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 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 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production Elegy for young lovers 31.1.2024 Elegy 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?" Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte 21.5.2023 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte  The young officers Ferrando and Guilelmo* do not want to let their fatherly friend Don Alfonso get away with it - after all, he doubts the fidelity of their fiancée! But instead of the demanded duel, they accept his proposal of a wager and thus become handmaidens in the work of destroying their love relationships. 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 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 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production Elegy for young lovers 31.1.2024 Elegy 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?" Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte 21.5.2023 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte  The young officers Ferrando and Guilelmo* do not want to let their fatherly friend Don Alfonso get away with it - after all, he doubts the fidelity of their fiancée! But instead of the demanded duel, they accept his proposal of a wager and thus become handmaidens in the work of destroying their love relationships. Opera production More news

News … Home News Philippe Boesmans: Round dance Philippe Boesmans: Round dance 05.12.2018 Opera production © Judith Buss Skip page navigation Overview About production Livestream Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Born in Tongeren (Belgium) in 1936, Philippe Boesmans, compositeur en résidance at La Monnaie under Gérard Mortier and Bernard Focroulle, was introduced to "Reigen" as operatic material by Luc Bondy - the librettist and director of the 1993 premiere in Brussels: "I wanted to write something light, something close to, for example, 'Cosi fan tutte'." Musical direction gernot Sahler Scenic direction alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes eric Droin & Yea Eun Hong Dramaturgy malte Krasting Music oenm . austrian ensemble for new music About production Boesman's "Reigen," whose musical language was described by the premiere conductor Sylvain Cambreling as a "mixture between Alban Berg and Maurice Ravel," developed into one of the most frequently performed new operas of our time. "A little Decameron of our days. The transience, even of subterranean life, rings through the whole." This is how Alfred Kerr describes Arthur Schnitzler's scandal-ridden "Reigen," written in the winter of 1896/97. "Scenes; always between a woman and a man. Each time in the middle of it a line of dashes - in a horizontal position. Schnitzler, who quietly wielded the psychic magic of love in other works, here smilingly gives the comedy of the lower zones." Arthur Schnitzler was already skeptical about a staged realization of "Ten Dialogues" when it was written - "there has never been anything more unperformable" - and imposed a performance ban after both the book publication and attempts to perform the "offensive" work were torpedoed by hostility and lawsuits. It was not until 1982 that the polarizing work found its way back onto the stage. Dates & Cast Performance dates 5. December 2018, 19.00 7. December 2018, 19.00 9. December 2018, 17.00 10. December 2018, 7.00 p.m max Schlereth Hall   Cast DIRECTOR: Ornella de Luca, Chelsea Kolic SOLDIER: Gabriel Arce STUB GIRL: Ekaterina Bocharova, Ines Constantino, Neelam Brader (study assignment) YOUNG LORD: Johannes Hubmer YOUNG WOMAN: Anne Reich, Sejin Park GATTE: Audrius Martisius, Konstantin Riedl CUTE GIRL: Vera Maria Bitter, Bethany Yeaman GUARD: Nuttaporn Thammathi SINGER: Himani Grundström, Ayse Senogul COUNT: Jinseok Kim, Daniel Weiler Other productions 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 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production Elegy for young lovers 31.1.2024 Elegy 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?" Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte 21.5.2023 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte  The young officers Ferrando and Guilelmo* do not want to let their fatherly friend Don Alfonso get away with it - after all, he doubts the fidelity of their fiancée! But instead of the demanded duel, they accept his proposal of a wager and thus become handmaidens in the work of destroying their love relationships. Opera production More news