JACQUES OFFENBACH • ORPHÉE AUX ENFERS

Premiere August 14th, 2019 | Haus für Mozart | Salzburg Festival 2019

Opéra-bouffon in two acts and four scenes (1858)

Joseph Beuys, unbetitelt, 1958 · Hasenblut, Eisenchlorid, Fett, Bleistift auf glattem Karton Sammlung Klüser, München · Dauerleihgabe in der Pinakothek der Moderne München · Foto: Philipp Schönborn © Bildrecht, Wien, 2018 · Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Nachlass Joseph Beuys

Libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy
New production

CREATIVE TEAM

Enrique Mazzola – Conductor
Barrie Kosky – Director
Rufus Didwiszus – Sets
Victoria Behr – Costumes
Franck Evin – Lighting
Otto Pichler – Choreography
Susanna Goldberg – Dramaturgy

CAST

Marcel Beekman – Aristée / Pluton
Martin Winkler – Jupiter
Joel Prieto – Orphée
Kathryn Lewek – Eurydice
Max Hopp John – Styx
Anne Sofie von Otter – L’Opinion publique
Peter Renz – Mercure
Rafał Pawnuk – Mars
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya – Diane
Frances Pappas – Junon
Lea Desandre – Vénus
Nadine Weissmann – Cupidon
Alessandra Bizzarri, Claudia Greco, Meri Ahmaniemi, Martina Borroni, Mariana Souza, Michael Fernandez, Shane Dickson, Marcell Prét, Lorenzo Soragni, Damian Czarnecki, Christoph Jonas, Kai Braithwaite – Dancer

Vocalconsort Berlin
David Cavelius – Chorus Master
Vienna Philharmonic

GIOACHINO ROSSINI • LA GAZZETTA

Premiere January 20th, 2019 | Salzburger Landestheater

Dramma per musica in two acts

CREATIVE TEAM

Musical Direction and Conductor: Riccardo Minasi
Director: Alexandra Liedtke
Stage Design: Falko Herold, Eva Musil
Costume Design: Johanna Lakner

Official Website Salzburger Landestheater

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART • LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Premiere January 20th, 2018 | Salzburger Landestheater

Opera buffa in four acts / libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte based on Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchai’s play “La folle journée ou le mariage de Figaro”

CREATIVE TEAM

Musical Direction and Conductor, Adrian Kelly
Director, Jacopo Spirei
Stage and Costume Design, Bettina Richter

CAST

Il Conte di Almaviva, George Humphreys/Elliott Carlton Hines
La Contessa di Almaviva, Anne-Fleur Werner/Angela Davis
Susanna, Laura Nicurescu
Figaro, Aubrey Allicock
Cherubino, Shahar Lavi
Marcellina, Frances Pappas
a.o.

Chor des Salzburger Landestheaters
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg

Booking: Salzburger Landestheater

ALBAN BERG • WOZZECK

Premiere August 8th, 2017 | Haus für Mozart | Salzburg Festival 2017

Opera in three acts, Op. 7 (1917-22)

Louise Bourgeois, “Insomnia”

Libretto by Alban Berg after Georg Büchner’s fragmentary play Woyzeck (1836)

PERFORMANCE DATES

With German and English surtitles

CREATIVE TEAM

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor
William Kentridge, Director
Luc De Wit, Co-Director
Sabine Theunissen, Sets
Greta Goiris, Costumes
Catherine Meyburgh, Video Compositor & Editor
Urs Schönebaum, Lighting
Kim Gunning, Video Operator

CAST

Matthias Goerne, Wozzeck
John Daszak, Drum Major
Mauro Peter, Andres
Gerhard Siegel, Captain
Jens Larsen, Doctor
Tobias Schabel, First Apprentice
Huw Montague Rendall*, Second Apprentice
Heinz Göhrig, Madman
Asmik Grigorian, Marie
Frances Pappas, Margret

Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor
Wolfgang Götz, Children’s Chorus Master
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Ernst Raffelsberger, Chorus Master
Vienna Philharmonic

* Member of the Young Singers Project – Supported by the Kühne Foundation

Salzburger Bachchor
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien