Bayreuth Baroque
The Bayreuth Baroque Festival has been bringing Baroque operas to the historic stage of the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth every September since 2000 .
The aim of the festival, organized by the city of Bayreuth, was to re-perform operas that had unjustly been forgotten and at the same time to revive the historical venue, which was mainly used as a museum and which was originally the decisive reason for Richard Wagner's choice of Bayreuth as a performance location for his operas. Based on the anniversary of the opera house in 1998, an annually recurring baroque festival was launched two years later.
The works listed included Handel's Saul (2002), Teseo and Belshazzar (2003), Amadigi (2005) and Giove in Argo (2006), Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (2002), L'Orfeo von Graun (2003), Vivaldis La Fida Ninfa (2004).
The ensembles and conductors involved included Concerto Köln , Il complesso barocco ( Alan Curtis ), Batzdorfer Hofkapelle ( Johan van Slageren ), Lautten Compagney Berlin ( Wolfgang Katschner ), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin ( Ralf Popken ), Neue Hofkapelle Munich ( Christoph Hammer ), Kammerakademie Potsdam ( Sergio Azzolini ), Concert Royal Cologne and Collegium Cantorum Cologne ( Thomas Gebhardt ).
Due to the renovation of the Margravial Opera House, the festival is currently suspended. In 2019 the city council decided to support the annual Bayreuth Baroque Festival from September 2020.
Individual proof
- ^ City of Bayreuth: break for the Bayreuth Baroque. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
- ↑ From 2020 there will be two festivals in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from September 26, 2019, p. 9.