Opera & Music Theater

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The Department of Opera & Musical Theater is a beacon with special charisma and appeal. Every year, two opera classes consisting of up to 15 highly talented students are prepared by renowned theater makers for the high demands of an international opera career. Four staged opera productions with orchestra are performed annually in a theater equipped to the highest technical standards.

Department of Opera & Music Theater
+43 676 88122 451
elke.walter@moz.ac.at

+43 676 88122 375
susanne.krabath@moz.ac.at

Mirabellplatz 1
5020 Salzburg

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Opera

23.6.2023 - 27.6.2023

Dido & Aeneas / Elissa (world premiere)

More than 330 years after the premiere of Henry Purcell's only complete opera, the French composer Henry Fourès composed a setting for Dido and Aeneas and called it "Elissa". A second name for the queen that allows the character to exist on her own, without a direct link to Aeneas. Fourès develops her from questioning voices and sounds that revolve around themes from today. They interweave with the myth, which comes to the surface piece by piece. Elissa becomes Dido and takes on her destiny.

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Opera & Music Theater

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News & Productions

2.6.2023

Jakob Hoffmann wins 5th International Haydn Competition

Munich baritone Jakob Hoffmann is the winner of the 5th International Haydn Competition for Classical Song and Aria, endowed with 8,000 euros, which took place over the Whitsun weekend at Rohrau Castle (Bruck/Leitha district, Lower Austria). Hoffmann also picked up two special prizes.

Awards & Successes
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
19.5.2023

„Eine kleine Oper-Probe“

News
17.4.2023

Opera out of Opera 2

Continuation of Opera out of Opera: Don Giovanni in Rome, Così fan tutte in Porto, Le nozze di Figaro in Stockholm and La Bohème in Oslo and Salzburg. What began in 2018 under the project title Opera out of Opera will be continued across Europe from 2023 to 2025. Co-funded by the European Commission's Creative Europe program, Opera out of Opera II builds on the results of the first project period - with the aim of developing innovative opera formats for new target groups.

Research project