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Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, Lohengrin, Bluebeard's Castle and Peer Gynt
Richard Wagner, who over the years became increasingly frustrated by theatre routine, dreamed about an "invisible theatre". Already in the love duet between Lohengrin and Elsa he transformed the drama into music, liberating the action to archetypes of the unconscious. In the concert on 5 August in the Grosses Festspielhaus conductor Iván Fischer is combining this scene from Wagner's romantic opera with Duke Bluebeard's Castle, a mystery by the Hungarian poet Béla Balázs that provided the basis for his fellow-countryman Bartók to re-work as a visionary and cryptic piece of music theatre. (Tickets are still available for ATS 800, 1,200, 1,500 and 1,800).
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| Gérard Uféras, Musician on the stage of the Felsenreitschule |
Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher also moves in a variety of interpretations between an imaginary stage and a production in an opera house. Hubert Soudant, artistic director of the Mozarteum Orchestra, and Dörte Lyssewski in the title role of St. Joan will present the "Dramatic Oratorio" as is appropriate for the work as a semi-staged performance on 28 July in the Felsenreitschule.
Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem Peer Gynt in any case goes far beyond the dimensions of any stage area. On 12 August there will be the rare opportunity in the Kleines Festspielhaus to become acquainted with Edvard Grieg's complete stage music for this Norwegian national drama in a performance by the Göteborg Symfoniker conducted by Neeme Järvi: "invisible theatre" in perfection.
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Saturday 28 July 8 p.m.
Felsenreitschule
Arthur Honegger
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Sung in French with German and English supertitles
Desirée Rancatore Soprano
Véronique Gens Soprano Mezzosoprano
Jeffrey Dowd Tenor
Franz-Josef Selig Bass
Dörte Lyssewski
Ernst Stötzner
Conductor Hubert Soudant
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Choir of the Society of the Friends of Music, Vienna
St. Florian's Abbey Boys Choir
Tickets available for ATS 1,900 and 2,200.
Sunday 5 August 11 a.m.
Grosses Festspielhaus
Wagner Lohengrin WWV 75
Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2 (with the love duet)
Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz 48
Sung in Hungarian with German and English supertitles
Adrianne Pieczonka Soprano
Gösta Winbergh Tenor
Ildikó Komlósi Mezzosoprano
Laszlo Polgar Baritone
Conductor Ivan Fischer
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Tickets available for ATS 1,200, 1,500 and 1,800.
Sunday 12 August 7.30 p.m.
Kleines Festspielhaus
Grieg Peer Gynt, op. 23
Sung in Norwegian with German and English supertitles
Barbara Bonney Soprano
Conductor Neeme Järvi
Göteborgs Symfoniker
BBC Singers
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