ARMIDA

Hob. XXVIII:12 • Dramma eroico in three acts
New production
In Italian, with German and English surtitles

Ivor Bolton, Conductor
Christof Loy, Stage director
Dirk Becker, Sets
Bettina Walter, Costumes
Olaf Winter, Lighting
Annika Haller, Dramaturgy
Jochen Heckmann, Choreography
Annette Dasch, Armida
Michael Schade, Rinaldo
Patricia Petibon, Zelmira
Vito Priante, Idreno
Richard Croft, Ubaldo
Bernard Richter, Clotarco

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester

Libretto by Nunziato Porta (?) after the anonymous libretto to Rinaldo, dramma per musica by Antonio Tozzi, based on the epos La Gerusalemme liberata (Liberated Jerusalem)
by Torquato Tasso

Venue:
Felsenreitschule

Prices and seating plans:
Open prices and map

Premiere:
Saturday, 28 July 2007, 7.30 p.m.

Further performances:
Thursday, 2 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 3.00 p.m.
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 18 August 2007, 3.00 p.m.

EUGENE ONEGIN

Lyric scenes in three acts
New production
In Russian, with German and English surtitles

Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
Andrea Breth, Stage director
Martin Zehetgruber, Sets
Silke Willrett, Marc Weeger, Costumes
Friedrich Rom, Lighting
Sergio Morabito, Dramaturgy
Catharina Lühr, Choreography
Thomas Lang, Chorus master

Renée Morloc, Madame Larina, landowner
Anna Samuil, Tatyana, her older daughter
Ekaterina Gubanova, Olga, her younger daughter
Emma Sarkissián, Filipieva, nurse
Peter Mattei, Eugene Onegin
Joseph Kaiser, Lensky, a poet, his friend
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Prince Gremin
Sergej Kownir, a captain
Georg Nigl, Saretzky, second
Ryland Davies, Triquet

Vienna Philharmonic

Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

Libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky and Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky based on the verse novel of the same name by Alexandr Pushkin

Venue:
Grosses Festspielhaus

Prices and seating plans:
Open prices and map

Premiere:
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 7.00 p.m.

Further performances:
Wednesday, 1 August 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Tuesday, 14 August 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Saturday, 25 August 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 7.00 p.m.

Tchaikovsky’s opera is based on Aleksandr Pushkin’s main work and because this was so famous, for many years it hindered the success of the opera. The opera tells the story of two outsiders: Tatyana, who escapes from the constrictions of her provincial world into the fantasy world of novels, and Onegin, who after a brief career as a playboy in St. Petersburg, suffers from chandrá, the Russian version of a depressive spleen. He coolly rejects Tatyana’s love. In a duel Onegin kills Lensky, fiancé of Tatyana’s sister Olga, and afterwards travels aimlessly around the world. After three years he meets Tatyana again, married to a highly honoured general. Onegin realises that he has lost his life’s happiness. Tatyana is still emotionally wounded yet still loves him but now she is the one who is no longer prepared to give up her secure life for her love of Onegin.
With his “lyric scenes” Tchaikovsky created an open structure which stage director Andrea Breth takes as an invitation to project the interpretation of Pushkin’s myth into the present.

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)

DER FREISCHÜTZ

Opera in three acts

New production
In German, with English surtitles

Markus Stenz, Conductor
Falk Richter, Stage director
Alex Harb, Sets
Tina Kloempken, Costumes
Olaf Freese, Lighting
Chris Kondek, Video
Bernd Stegemann, Dramaturgy
Andreas Schüller, Chorus master

Markus Butter, Prince Ottokar
Roland Bracht, Kuno, hereditary forester
Petra Maria Schnitzer, Agathe, daughter of the hereditary forester
Aleksandra Kurzak, Aennchen, Agathe’s cousin
Peter Seiffert, Max, hunter’s boy
John Relyea, Kaspar, hunter’s boy
Günther Groissböck, a hermit
Alexander Kaimbacher, Kilian, a wealthy farmer

Vienna Philharmonic
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

Libretto by Friedrich Kind
in the dialogue version by Falk Richter

With generous support by the friends of the Salzburg Festival Bad Reichenhall

Venue:
Haus für Mozart

Prices and seating plans:
Open prices and map

Premiere:
Friday, 3 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.

Further performances:

Sunday, 5 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Monday, 13 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Monday, 20 August 2007, 3.00 p.m.
Thursday, 23 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Monday, 27 August 2007, 6.00 p.m.

Interpreters of Der Freischütz are agreed on one point: it is the German national opera, whereby the epitome of all things Germanic, the forest, plays the main role. And ever since Tacitus commented on Germania, the forest has been associated with the German warrior and his standing army. The souls of heroes inhabit the treetops of oaks, and the thicket of the undergrowth is the best battleground for the courageous partisan who can entice an entire superpower into the marshes. The forest is inhabited by fairy-tales and the unconscious.
Max, a young hunter, is due to marry Agathe, daughter of the hereditary forester. Before the marriage, however, the man has to pass a test: he has to take a free shot at a moving target. Max’s skills with firearms diminish as the day of the test approaches. The ammunition, which can pass through thick clouds of smoke and in darkest night hit the invisible enemy exactly between the eyes, has to be procured. Max is faced with a severe burden: he watches the devil doing his work. Frightened to death, the following day he presents himself to take his test. For the first time he realizes that a real victim is standing behind every target.

Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)

BENVENUTO CELLINI

Opera in two acts

New production
In French, with German and English surtitles

Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Philipp Stölzl, Stage director and sets
Kathi Maurer, Costumes
Duane Schuler, Lighting
Stefan Kessner, Video
Mara Kurotschka, Choreography
Ronny Dietrich, Dramaturgy
Andreas Schüller, Chorus master

Neil Shicoff/Burkhard Fritz (18. August), Benvenuto Cellini
Laurent Naouri, Fieramosca
Brindley Sherratt, Giacomo Balducci
Mikhail Petrenko, Pope Clemens VII
Maija Kovalevska, Teresa, Balducci’s daughter
Vesselina Kasarova, Ascanio, Cellini’s apprentice
Xavier Mas, Francesco, Cellini’s apprentice
Roberto Tagliavini, Bernardino, Cellini’s apprentice
Sung-Keun Park, Le Cabaretier

Vienna Philharmonic

Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Henri Auguste Barbier
based on the biography of Benvenuto Cellini

Venue:
Grosses Festspielhaus

Prices and seating plans:
Open prices and map

Premiere:
Friday, 10 August 2007, 6.30 p.m.

Further performances:
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 18 August 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Sunday, 26 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 6.30 p.m.

Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)

BENVENUTO CELLINI

Opera in two acts

New production
In French, with German and English surtitles

Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Philipp Stölzl, Stage director and sets
Kathi Maurer, Costumes
Duane Schuler, Lighting
Stefan Kessner, Video
Mara Kurotschka, Choreography
Ronny Dietrich, Dramaturgy
Andreas Schüller, Chorus master

Neil Shicoff/Burkhard Fritz (18. August), Benvenuto Cellini
Laurent Naouri, Fieramosca
Brindley Sherratt, Giacomo Balducci
Mikhail Petrenko, Pope Clemens VII
Maija Kovalevska, Teresa, Balducci’s daughter
Vesselina Kasarova, Ascanio, Cellini’s apprentice
Xavier Mas, Francesco, Cellini’s apprentice
Roberto Tagliavini, Bernardino, Cellini’s apprentice
Sung-Keun Park, Le Cabaretier

Vienna Philharmonic

Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Henri Auguste Barbier
based on the biography of Benvenuto Cellini

Venue:
Grosses Festspielhaus

Prices and seating plans:
Open prices and map

Premiere:
Friday, 10 August 2007, 6.30 p.m.

Further performances:
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 18 August 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Sunday, 26 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 6.30 p.m.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

DER SCHAUSPIELDIREKTOR /
BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE

KV 486 / KV 50 (46b)
Comedy with music in one act / Singspiel in one act
Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie jun. / Libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern, Johann H. F. Müller and Johann Andreas Schachtner

Revival

Elisabeth Fuchs, Conductor
Thomas Reichert, Stage director

With:

Evmorfia Metaxaki
Bernhard Berchtold
Radu Cojocariu

Junge Philharmonie Salzburg
With generous support by Donald and Jeanne Kahn.

Venue:
Salzburger Marionettentheater

Prices and seating plans:
Open prices and map

Premiere:
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 3.00 p.m.

Further performances:
Friday, 3 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 3.00 p.m.
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 3.00 p.m.
Friday, 17 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 18 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 3.00 p.m.
Friday, 24 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, 25 August 2007, 7.30 p.m.

Mozart performed by marionettes? Mozart operas have always been in the repertoire of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre ever since it was founded; these two short operas go back to its early origins. The small theatre opened in 1913 with a performance of Bastien und Bastienne. As on that occasion a live orchestra and singers again enhance the charm of the marionettes and it is particularly captivating to experience the interaction between puppets, singers and actors. The two operas are cleverly combined: the Impresario organises a casting with marionettes to choose performers for Bastien und Bastienne. The puppets appear with­out costumes, in their simplest form, and are re­quired to display their abilities on stage. As the puppets appear “nude” with no clothes concealing the joints, utmost precision is demanded in their movements. For the singers it is also unusual to be confronted with a being made of wood as their alter ego and with whom they have to establish a relationship.

Troubleyn/Jan Fabre (*1958)

REQUIEM FOR A METAMORPHOSIS

A theatrical requiem with actors, dancers and musicians

World premiere

Jan Fabre, Stage director and choreography
Miet Martens, Assistant
Pol Engels, Jan Fabre, Costumes
Luk Van den Dries, Dramaturgy
Harry Cole, Jan Fabre, Lighting design

With actors, dancers and musicians from the Troubleyn (Antwerp/Belgium)

In co-operation with Troubleyn/Jan Fabre and the Ruhr Triennial