WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART • LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Premiere January 20th, 2017 | 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

BRECHT/WEILL • AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY

Premiere April 30th, 2017 | Salzburger Landestheater

Schedule

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny © Christina Canaval

Musical Direction Adrian Kelly
Director Jacopo Spirei
Stage Design Eva Musil
Costumes Bettina Richter

“Hello, my respectable gentlemen Brecht and Weill; your days should be numbered just like your revolting town of Mahagonny’’, wrote the music magazine following the scandalous première of “Mahoganny’’ on 9th March 1930 in Leipzig.  The audience were confronted with a piece that was brutal and needlessly provocative, coupled with the meaningless and ultimately self-destructive workings of capitalistic society.

First of all, a town was founded. Fatty, Moses and the widow Begbick decide to create a place in the world that should make money.  They wanted to outwit the system that they had chosen and christen it “Mahagonny, the Traptown’’. But the system could not be outwitted, and the traps remained empty. People visiting Mahagonny do not bring money, only dissatisfaction. The longing for zero is the one Utopia left. Only Jim Mahoney conceives a concept of being alive that reveals the fundamental questions of our time: How do we want to live? What does society mean? And:
in what way am I human?

Whilst Kurt Weil (1900-1950) in the late 1920’s, was composing the music for “Mahagonny’’, Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was working on the first draft of his “Theory of the Epic Theatre’’ in which he made fun of the normal workings of opera. He called for “a radical separation of the elements’’ by means of which “music, speech and i
mage…would contain more independence.’’

Jacopo Spirei, who at the Salzburg State Theatre was responsible for the Don Giovanni rehearsals and the Austrian Première of Brokeback Mountain, now brings to the stage Weills’ and Brecht’s social-critical Musical. The Mozarteum Orchestra plays under the direction of Conductor Adrian Kelly.

THOMAS ADÈS • THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

World premiere July 28th, 2016 | Haus für Mozart, Salzburg

Opera in two acts by Thomas Adès (*1971)
Text by Tom Cairns (*1952) in collaboration with Thomas Adès
based on Luis Buñuel’s and Luis Alcoriza’s screenplay for the film El ángel exterminador by Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)

Work commissioned by the Salzburg Festival in coproduction with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and Den Kongelige Opera, Copenhagen

Performances

With German and English surtitles

CREATIVE TEAM

Thomas Adès, Conductor
Tom Cairns, Director
Hildegard Bechtler, Sets and Costumes
Jon Clark, Lighting
Christian Arseni, Dramaturgy
Alois Glaßner, Chorus Master

CAST

Amanda Echalaz, Lucía
Audrey Luna, Leticia
Anne Sofie von Otter, Leonora
Sally Matthews, Silvia
Christine Rice, Blanca
Sophie Bevan, Beatriz
Charles Workman, Nobile
Frédéric Antoun, Raúl
David Adam Moore, Colonel
Iestyn Davies, Francisco
Ed Lyon, Eduardo
Eric Halfvarson, Russell
Thomas Allen, Roc
John Tomlinson, Doctor
Morgan Moody, Julio
Franz Gürtelschmied, Enrique
Rafael Fingerlos, Pablo
Frances Pappas, Meni
Anna Maria Dur, Camila

Salzburger Bachchor
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien