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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.

I then moved to Paris, Gerard went to Zurich after graduating and we spent one or two years in differentWe tried to plan and combine concerts well, after a concert in China we played in South Korea.Franziska Strohmayr grew up in Augsburg and came to Salzburg to study, where she still lives today after

Lecturer in project-related dramaturgy

Senior Lecturer in Diatonic Accordion

Research Management

At the end of the 1970s, a group of so-called "school musicians" of the subjects A1, A2 and IGP left the Mozarteum University (at that time still a university) as graduates and have nevertheless always remained in contact - with each other but also with their alma mater. After the general "forced break" of the last two years, this year thirteen alumni and alumnae from different regions and professional fields met again in Innsbruck. May many more meetings follow!

As part of the International Summer Academy and numerous masterclasses, the renowned American pianist, teacher, Mozart researcher and Harvard professor Robert Levin has been a regular guest at the Mozarteum University for many years. From May, he will take up his teaching position at the Department of Keyboard Instruments. We are very much looking forward to it!

After A Midsummer Night's Dream and Owen Wingrave, the Department of Opera & Music Theater at the Mozarteum University will once again devote itself to Benjamin Britten's abysmal music-theatrical oeuvre. This winter semester, two of his masterpieces will be performed: Albert Herring in December 2022 will be followed by The Turn of the Screw in January 2023.