CARL ORFF • DE TEMPORUM FINE COMOEDIA

Premiere July 26th, 2022 | Felsenreitschule | Salzburg Festival 2022

The Play of the End of Times — Vigilia (Final version 1981)
Libretto by Carl Orff using passages from the Sibylline Oracles and the Orphic Hymns

In Ancient Greek, Latin and German with German and English surtitles

Supported by the Carl-Orff-Stiftung

CREATIVE TEAM

Teodor Currentzis – Conductor 

Romeo Castellucci – Director, Sets, Costumes and Lighting 

Cindy Van Acker – Choreography 

Piersandra Di Matteo  – Dramaturgy 

Theresa Wilson Associate  – Costume Designer

Maxi Menja Lehmann – Assistant Director

Alessio Valmori – Assistant Set Designer

Marco Giusti Associate – Lighting Designer

CAST

Nadezhda Pavlova – Soprano

Taxiarchoula Kanati, Frances Pappas, Irini Tsirakidis – Mezzosoprano

Helena Rasker – Contralto

Gero Nievelstein, Christian Reiner – Speakers

Soloists of the musicAeterna Choir

ENSEMBLES

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

musicAeterna Choir

Bachchor Salzburg

Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor

As of October 2021 at the Salzburger Landestheater

The hit musical “The Sound of Music” returns to the Salzburg State Theatre. It has been ten years – almost to the day – since the musical was first presented in Salzburg in October 2011, sparking media reports around the world. Now, the moving love story of Baron von Trapp and Maria, governess to his children, is back with a new cast.

Cast:

Musical Director | Wolfgang Götz
Director | Andreas Gergen, Christian Struppeck
Choreography | Kim Duddy
Stage and Costume Design | Court Watson

Kapitän Georg von Trapp | Lukas Perman
Maria Rainer | Patrizia Unger

Mutter Oberin | Frances Pappas
Elsa Schrader | Franziska Becker
Max Dettweiler | Axel Meinhardt

a.o.

Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg

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