Eutin Festival
The Eutin Festival is one of the traditional German opera festival and found since 1951 in July and August on the on Eutiner Great Lake located open-air theater in the old ducal palace gardens of the East Holstein district town Eutin ( Schleswig-Holstein ) instead.
On the 125th anniversary of the death of the composer Carl Maria von Weber (born in the royal seat in 1786), the Eutin music director Andreas Hofmeier had the plan to honor him with two performances of his most famous opera Der Freischütz . Due to the lively audience, the two planned performances became nine performances, this was the hour of birth of the Eutin Summer Games, which were renamed the Eutin Festival for the 50th season in 2000.
The grandstand on the "green hill" has 1886 seats. Every year more than 40,000 spectators attend the performances of the Eutin Festival. Operas , operettas and gala evenings are acoustically possible here without amplification.
43 different works from the baroque to the music of the 20th century have been performed since then, the Freischütz alone in 40 seasons. Until 2010, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra accompanied well-known artists such as Ruth-Margret Pütz , Hanna Schwarz , Iris Vermillion , Theo Adam , Nicolai Gedda , Franz Grundträger , René Kollo , Kurt Moll , Gerd Nienstedt (artistic directors 1982–1988) as the “house orchestra” , Hermann Prey , Hans Sotin and Bernd Weikl . In 2012, a festival-owned orchestra was put together from professional musicians from northern German theaters and both German and American music students. The latter as well as choristers, tenor Hugo Vera and conductor David Neely could be won over to the ensemble through a cooperation with the School of Music at the University of Kansas since 2011 .
Since 2006, the Eutin Festival has increasingly had to struggle with economic difficulties, mainly due to a decline in visitor numbers. As a result, there were numerous changes within the festival management. As a consequence of this development, the Eutin Festival had to file for bankruptcy at the Eutin District Court on October 11, 2010 .
The rescue of the Eutiner Festspiele GmbH was no longer possible. On January 1, 2011 insolvency proceedings were opened against the assets of Eutiner Festspiele GmbH due to overindebtedness and insolvency.
In February of the same year, a new host was founded in Eutin. From the 2011 season onwards, the Eutiner Festival will be carried out by the "Neue Eutiner Festspiele non-profit GmbH". The sole shareholder of the gGmbH was the Wirtschaftsvereinigung Eutin eV (WVE). The first managing director of the "Neue Eutiner Festspiele gGmbH", Marcus Gutzeit, was followed at the beginning of 2013 by Tina Ziegler, in October 2014 by Sabine Kuhnert and from October 2017 by Falk Christoph Herzog. In 2011, Jörg Fallheier was won as director . From 2012 to 2019 Dominique Caron directed the artistic fortunes of the Eutin Festival as artistic director (formerly, among others, the Dortmund Opera ).
On November 27, 2015, the Hamburg-based Cautus Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft, which has owned the Opernscheune since 2012, took over the majority of the company's shares from the Eutin trade association. The two entrepreneurs and previous advisory board members Arend Knoop and Joachim Scheele became further shareholders. In autumn 2017 it became known that Cautus Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft had sold both the property and its shares to Gutsverwaltung Stendorf.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Opernnetz - Zeitschrift für Musiktheater und Oper ( Memento of May 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 22, 2012
- ^ A gala farewell for Dominique Caron. In: Ostholsteiner Anzeiger . 1st September 2019 .
- ↑ New shareholder structures ( Memento of April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 3, 2016