ON THE WAY TO A GLORIOUS FUTURE
Inspiring conductors lend inspiration to the Mozarteum Orchestra
Over the past few festival summers the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra literally made audiences sit up and listen. Besides the traditional commitments to playing for the Mozart Matinees and the Mass in C minor in St. Peter’s Abbey came two spectacular and prestigious opera productions in the Residenzhof: Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail and Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. In the case of the latter the encounter had “serious consequences” – Ivor Bolton unleashed the energies inherent in the music and created such a rapport with the musicians that he is now principal conductor designate of the Mozarteum Orchestra and takes up the appointment in 2004.
Six Mozart Matinees
Ivor Bolton will also conduct one of the series of six Mozart Matinées (performed on Saturdays and Sundays) at this year’s Salzburg Festival. Hubert Soudant, the orchestra’s current principal conductor has two dates, and Manfred Honeck and Marc Minkowski (who is this year conducting the Mass in C minor and has chosen an unusual combination of works for his Matinée – Mozart’s Thamos and Fauré’s Requiem) are two conductors with whom the orchestra is already very familiar. New to the orchestra on the other hand is Kirill Petrenko who caused a sensation in Meiningen where he conducted Wagner’s Ring (directed by Christine Mielitz).
Change in repertoire to Rossini
The orchestra is also making a change in its operatic repertoire: Rossini’s melodrama La Donna del Lago can be heard on 27 and 29 August in concert performances in the Kleines Festspielhaus. Marcello Viotti conducts and a Rossini tenor who is at present enjoying a sensational international career, Juan Diego Floréz, will be appearing for the first time at the Festival.
Karl Harb
Alfred Hrdlicka,
Schubert: The House of Three Maidens, 1996/97
MOZART MATINEES
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Great Hall of the Mozarteum
27 July 2002, 7.30 p.m.
Conductor Hubert Soudant
Soloist Radovan Vlatkovic French horn
Tickets available for € 95
3 August 2002, 11 a.m.
Conductor Marc Minkowski
Tickets available for € 95
17 Augut 2002, 11 a.m.
Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Soloist Till Fellner, Piano
Tickets available for € 95
25 August 2002, 11 a.m.
Conductor Manfred Honeck
Soloist Adrianna Pieczonka Soprano
Tickets available for € 95
30 August 2002, 7.30 p.m.
Conductor Hubert Soudant
Soloist Emmanuel Pahud, Flute
Tickets available for € 22, 40, 65, and 95
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