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Insight into Vivaldi's opera L'olimpiade in the arcade courtyard of Greinburg Castle

The Donaufestwochen im Strudengau is a festival for early music with counterpoint from the modern age.

The festival has been held annually since 1995 at several venues in the Upper and Lower Austrian Strudengau .

organization

The festival director has been Michi Gaigg , the director of the L'Orfeo Barockorchester , since 2003 . The Donaufestwochen is sponsored by the Kulturforum Donauland Strudengau association, which was formed in 1991 to network the regional cultural associations of the Strudengau region . The organization of the events is the responsibility of the individual association members. The annual highlight is the in-house opera productions in the arcade courtyard of Greinburg .

Venues

Greinburg Castle is one of the most important festival venues. Every year the festival weeks are opened there in the arcade courtyard or, if the weather is bad, in the knight's hall, as well as the annual in-house opera production.

The collegiate church Waldhausen , the parish church Bad Kreuzen and the collegiate church Ardagger are performance venues for selected concerts. Performers such as the L'Orfeo Barockorchester , Chorus sine nomine , Concilium Musicum Wien , Ars Antiqua Austria, Bach Consort Wien and the Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra have been recruited for the mainly matinee performances in the Stiftskirche Waldhausen .

From 1996 to 1998 concerts were held in Schloss Innernstein in Münzbach a. a. organized with the Salzburg Residence Soloists.

Since 1997 Saxen has also been one of the venues for the Donaufestwochen in Saxen, where Erika Pluhar , Robert Meyer , Karlheinz Hackl , Julia Stemberger , Christian Altenburger , Gusti Wolf , Topsy Küppers , Helmut Jasbar and the tenor Maximilian Kiener have already been part of the Musikhauptschule and the Strindberg Museum occurred.

Other venues are the Altenburg branch church , the Baumgartenberg collegiate church and the Gießenbachmühle in St. Nikola an der Donau at the entrance to the Stillensteinklamm . The Filialkirche Altenburg has been the venue for concerts by Annegret Siedel , Bell Arte Salzburg, Carin van Heerden, Thomas Bogner, Jörg Halubek , Brett Leighton, Midori Seiler , Juris Teichmanis and Hiro Kurosaki since 1999 . In the Baumgartenberg collegiate church, a. a. Peter Assmann , Erdmuthe Scherzer-Klinger, Erich Traxler, Elisabeth Ullmann and the Ensemble Responsorium Zagreb.

Jazz concerts with interpreters such as Agnes Heginger and Klaus Wienerroither have been offered in the Hauer family's Vierkanthof in Ardagger since 1997 .

The Großdöllnerhof in the Mühlviertel Nature Park in Rechberg has been the venue for LandART every year since 2004 - the exhibition of works of art created by the sculptor Willibald Katteneder as part of the Donaufestwochen .

Other venues are:

Performers

Exemplary list of well-known orchestras, choirs, ensembles and artists and opening speakers who could be engaged once or several times:

Own opera productions

The highlight of the Donaufestwochen is the annual in-house opera production with opera rarities from the baroque and early classical periods at Greinburg Castle. Lesser known works by masters of music history such as Telemann , Handel or Mozart are performed.

The following operas and musical plays have been performed since 1995:

CD recordings

The first recording of an opera production of the Donaufestwochen, Telemann's Orpheus or the wonderful permanence of love was made in the summer of 2010. As part of the festival concert for the 15th anniversary of the L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra in the Waldhausen collegiate church, the recording was made in 2011 under the direction of Michi Gaigg Schubert's concert overtures and the symphony No. 5 . The opera production 2011, Sebastián Durón's opera La Guerra de los Gigantes with the Ensemble A Corte Musical under the direction of Rogério Goncalves, and 2012, Mozart's Betulia liberata with the L'Orfeo Barockorchester have also been released on CD.

Child and youth work

The opera workshop for children, which has existed for several years, aims to inspire them for the language of music. A stage workshop in cooperation with the polytechnic course at HIT Grein serves to involve young people. The Strudengau Singing School, established by the Kulturforum Donauland-Strudengau in 2008, gives children and young people the opportunity to complete basic vocal training (voice training, rhythm, choral singing) all year round. The free entry for young people up to 15 years of age at the events of the Donaufestwochen allows young people to let their curiosity run free and encourages families to experience music together.

Web links

Commons : Donaufestwochen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Upper Austrian news: Online archive for registered users: Keyword Donaufestwochen
  2. derStandard.at: Orpheus with a difference
  3. mein district.at of August 6, 2009, art as a better weapon: Donaufestwochen opened  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 20, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.meinzeile.at  
  4. Donaufestwochen im Strudengau: Online archive ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 20, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.donau-festwochen.at
  5. derStandard.at of July 24, 2008 Melodious competition , accessed on November 20, 2011.
  6. nachrichten.at on July 29, 2011 Donaufestwochen: rarities and modernity , accessed on November 20, 2011.
  7. Anna Mitgutsch: The knowledge value of literature , opening speech of the Donaufestwochen im Strudengau / Grein on July 29, 2005 Lectures and panel discussions -Homepage Anna Mitgutsch ( memento of the original from September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anna-mitgutsch.at
  8. Homepage Ensemble Vivante
  9. ^ Franz Szabo: Donaufestwochen im Strudengau, 2011 ( Memento from August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Franz Szabo: French Baroque Opera in Grein ( Memento from April 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. derStandard.at of August 9, 2004: Baroque Midsummer Night's Dreams in Grein , accessed on October 24, 2011
  12. derStandard.at of August 8, 2005: Unknown Mozart , accessed on October 24, 2011
  13. ^ ORF Upper Austria (archive) of August 3, 2006: Opera rarity "Ottone, Re di Germania" in Grein , accessed on October 24, 2011
  14. ^ Franz Szabo: Donaufestwochen im Strudengau, 2007 ( Memento from April 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ^ Bernhard Leitner: at the scene. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of July 24, 2008
  16. derStandard.at of April 2, 2009: "Almira, Queen of Castile" in Strudengau , accessed on October 24, 2011
  17. Franz Zamazal: Donaufestwochen: The permanence of love. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (archive) of August 9, 2010, accessed on October 24, 2011
  18. Franz Zamazal: Spanish Baroque Strudengau. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (archive) of August 8, 2011, accessed on October 24, 2011
  19. Success for Haydn's rarity. In: Upper Austrian Volksblatt . August 5, 2019, archived from the original on December 5, 2019 .;
  20. The Donaufestwochen to listen to on CD  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.donau-festwochen.at  
  21. ^ Offspring for the big opera stage , in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (archive) of July 18, 2013 [1], accessed on August 22, 2013