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Operklosterneuburg
The operklosterneuburg is an Austrian opera festival held annually in the baroque imperial courtyard of Klosterneuburg Abbey in Lower Austria. History The festival was founded in 1993 by Alexander Hermann and Sonja Fletzberger and takes place in July and August. Since 1998 it has been under the direction of Michael Garschall. In contrast to other Austrian summer festivals, the Klosterneuburg Opera follows a moderately modern line in its productions. The directors who have worked here include Max Augenfeld, , , Michael Garschall, Isabella Gregor, Andy Hallwaxx, Alexander Hauer, Jens-Daniel Herzog, (children's versions), Markus Kupferblum, Matthias Lutz, and Julian Pölsler, , Karl M. Sibelius, , Matthias von Stegmann, . The comparatively sparse furnishings are closely matched to the existing architecture. The natural acoustics of the Abbey courtyard enable singing without amplification or other technical manipulation. For numerous soloists, a performance at the festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operklosterneuburg Kaiserhof
The operklosterneuburg is an Austrian opera festival held annually in the baroque imperial courtyard of Klosterneuburg Abbey in Lower Austria. History The festival was founded in 1993 by Alexander Hermann and Sonja Fletzberger and takes place in July and August. Since 1998 it has been under the direction of Michael Garschall. In contrast to other Austrian summer festivals, the Klosterneuburg Opera follows a moderately modern line in its productions. The directors who have worked here include Max Augenfeld, , , Michael Garschall, Isabella Gregor, Andy Hallwaxx, Alexander Hauer, Jens-Daniel Herzog, (children's versions), Markus Kupferblum, Matthias Lutz, and Julian Pölsler, , Karl M. Sibelius, , Matthias von Stegmann, . The comparatively sparse furnishings are closely matched to the existing architecture. The natural acoustics of the Abbey courtyard enable singing without amplification or other technical manipulation. For numerous soloists, a performance at the festival wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operklosterneuburg Kaiserhof Stift Klosterneuburg
The operklosterneuburg is an Austrian opera festival held annually in the baroque imperial courtyard of Klosterneuburg Abbey in Lower Austria. History The festival was founded in 1993 by Alexander Hermann and Sonja Fletzberger and takes place in July and August. Since 1998 it has been under the direction of Michael Garschall. In contrast to other Austrian summer festivals, the Klosterneuburg Opera follows a moderately modern line in its productions. The directors who have worked here include Max Augenfeld, , , Michael Garschall, Isabella Gregor, Andy Hallwaxx, Alexander Hauer, Jens-Daniel Herzog, (children's versions), Markus Kupferblum, Matthias Lutz, and Julian Pölsler, , Karl M. Sibelius, , Matthias von Stegmann, . The comparatively sparse furnishings are closely matched to the existing architecture. The natural acoustics of the Abbey courtyard enable singing without amplification or other technical manipulation. For numerous soloists, a performance at the festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operklosterneuburg
The operklosterneuburg is an Austrian opera festival held annually in the baroque imperial courtyard of Klosterneuburg Abbey in Lower Austria. History The festival was founded in 1993 by Alexander Hermann and Sonja Fletzberger and takes place in July and August. Since 1998 it has been under the direction of Michael Garschall. In contrast to other Austrian summer festivals, the Klosterneuburg Opera follows a moderately modern line in its productions. The directors who have worked here include Max Augenfeld, , , Michael Garschall, Isabella Gregor, Andy Hallwaxx, Alexander Hauer, Jens-Daniel Herzog, (children's versions), Markus Kupferblum, Matthias Lutz, and Julian Pölsler, , Karl M. Sibelius, , Matthias von Stegmann, . The comparatively sparse furnishings are closely matched to the existing architecture. The natural acoustics of the Abbey courtyard enable singing without amplification or other technical manipulation. For numerous soloists, a performance at the festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Rösner
Thomas Rösner (born 12 June 1973) is an Austrian conductor. Life Born in Mödling, Rösner studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and attended master classes with Ilya Musin (conductor), Ilya Musin, Myung-Whun Chung and Hans Graf. He received decisive musical impulses as répétiteur of the Wiener Singverein (direction: Johannes Prinz), where he worked with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Mariss Jansons, Georges Prêtre, Roger Norrington and Fabio Luisi. Career In 1998, at Luisi's invitation, Rösner became assistant with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. From 2000 to 2004 Rösner was "Chef associé" at the ''Orchestre National de Bordeaux'' alongside Hans Graf. From 1995 to 2005, Rösner conducted the ''Sinfonietta Baden'', which he founded, and in this capacity also conducted the performances of the Operklosterneuburg from 2001 to 2003. From 2005 to 2011, he was principal conductor of the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra. At the same time, inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Mancusi
Guido Mancusi (born 14 June 1966) is an Austrian-Italian conductor and composer. Life Born in Portici near Naples, Mancusi was the son of the Neapolitan conductor Enrico Mancusi and the Viennese singing teacher Ines Mancusi and grew up in Naples and Padova. He received his first piano lessons from his father, who was a close friend of the composer Nino Rota. After his father's early death, his mother decided to return to her hometown of Vienna with her two children. Mancusi became boy soprano with the Vienna Boys' Choir. After the Matura at the , he began studies in bassoon and singing at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien. During his school years he became a member of the Catholic secondary school fraternity K. Ö. St. V. Frankonia zu Wien, to which he still belongs today. Studies followed at the Vienna Academy of Music in composition with Erich Urbanner and conducting with Karl Österreicher, he received diplomas with distinction. In 1992 he became ''magister artium'' with a the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Gregor
Isabella Gregor (born in the 20th century) is an Austrian actress and theatre director. Career Born in Vienna, Gregor comes from a family of musicians: her great uncle is the conductor Bertil Wetzelsberger, her mother was the singer Sieglinde Wetzelsberger, her father the conductor Karl Österreicher and her cousin the conductor Franz Welser-Möst. She completed her acting training with Susi Nicoletti. She had engagements as an actress at the , the Landestheater Salzburg and the Burgtheater Vienna. She has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Theater in der Josefstadt, the Volksbühne Berlin, the Nationaltheater Weimar, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Staatstheater Stuttgart and the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. Since the 1990s, Gregor has worked as a director in drama and music theatre. In spoken theatre, she directed and adapted the German premiere of ''Oxygen'' by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg - with which she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Von Stegmann
Matthias von Stegmann (born 1968) is a German actor, voice-over speaker and writer, author and stage director for theatre and especially opera who works internationally. He wrote dialogue and directed it for German versions of American series such ''The Simpsons''. In opera, he has focused on the work of Richard Wagner. He staged a version of his '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' for children, first in Tokyo, then in German at the Vienna State Opera and in Zurich. He staged in 2012 '' Tristan und Isolde'' in Minden, and in 2013 the first performance of ''Rienzi'' at the Bayreuth Festival. Career Stegmann is the son of a Japanese mother and a German father. He began a career as a voice-over speaker () at age ten, and was heard in TV series such as '' Little House on the Prairie'' (''Unsere kleine Farm'') and '' The Bad News Bears'' (''Die Bären sind los''). He received the Abitur of the in Gauting in 1987. Stegmann wrote his first voice-over script at age 19 and first worked direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Schicchi
() is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. The work is the third and final part of Puccini's (The Triptych)three one-act operas with contrasting themes, originally written to be presented together. Although it continues to be performed with one or both of the other operas, is now more frequently staged either alone or with short operas by other composers. The aria is one of Puccini's best known, and one of the most popular arias in opera. Puccini had long considered writing a set of one-act operas which would be performed together in a single evening, but faced with a lack of suitable subjects and opposition from his publisher, he repeatedly put the project aside. However, by 1916 Puccini had completed the one-act tragedy and, after considering various ideas, he began work the following year on the solemn, religious, all- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Merry Wives Of Windsor (opera)
''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (German: ''Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor'') is an opera in three acts by Otto Nicolai to a German libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal based on the play ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' by William Shakespeare. The opera is a ''Singspiel'', containing much spoken dialogue between distinct musical numbers. The opera remains popular in Germany, and the overture is sometimes heard in concert in other countries. Composition history Otto Nicolai composed the music from 1845 to 1849. He had previously achieved great success with a few Italian operas, but this opera was to become his masterpiece in the German language. The composer himself made some changes to the libretto. Performance history It was difficult at first to find a stage that was willing to mount the opera. Following the premiere at the Königliches Opernhaus (Royal Opera House, now Berlin State Opera) in Berlin on 9 March 1849 under the baton of the composer, it proved unsuccessful at first, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber Of Seville
''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( it, Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione ) is an ''opera buffa'' in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy ''The Barber of Seville'' (1775). The première of Rossini's opera (under the title ''Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione'') took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, with designs by Angelo Toselli. Rossini's ''Barber of Seville'' has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". After two hundred years, it remains a popular work. Composition history Rossini's opera recounts the events of the first of the three plays by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais that revolve around the clever and enterprising character named Figaro, the barber of the title. Mozart's opera ''The Marriage of Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Hassan
''Abu Hassan'' (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, J. 106) is a comic List of operas by Carl Maria von Weber, opera in one act by Carl Maria von Weber to a German libretto by , based on a story in ''One Thousand and One Nights''. It was composed between 11 August 1810 and 12 January 1811 and has set numbers with recitative and spoken dialogue. The work is a Singspiel in the then popular Turkish music (style), Turkish style. Performance history ''Abu Hassan'' was first performed at the Cuvilliés Theatre, Residenz Theater in Munich on 4 June 1811, conducted by the composer. In London, it was produced in English at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1835, and in Italian at Drury Lane on 12 May 1870 (at the same time as Mozart's ''L'oca del Cairo''), the translation being made by , and the dialogue set to recitative by Luigi Arditi. ''Abu Hassan'' is not now part of the commonly performed operatic repertory, though it is sometimes staged. The overture is, however, well known and has been recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hänsel Und Gretel (opera)
''Hansel and Gretel'' (German: ') is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a ' (fairy-tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel". It is much admired for its folk music-inspired themes, one of the most famous being the "" ("Evening Benediction") from act 2. The idea for the opera was proposed to Humperdinck by his sister, who approached him about writing music for songs that she had written for her children for Christmas based on "Hansel and Gretel". After several revisions, the musical sketches and the songs were turned into a full-scale opera. Humperdinck composed ''Hansel and Gretel'' in Frankfurt in 1891 and 1892. The opera was first performed in the Hoftheater in Weimar on 23 December 1893, conducted by Richard Strauss. It has been associated with Christmas since its earliest performances and today it is still most often performed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
