International Gluck Opera Festival
The International Gluck Opera Festival is a biennial music festival in the Nuremberg metropolitan region.
Artistic Director
Since October 2019, the conductor Michael Hofstetter has been the festival director and managing director of the International Gluck Opera Festival gGmbH.
Hofstetter succeeded Rainer Mennicken , who took over the management in 2017. From 2013 to 2017, Axel Baisch was the artistic director and Christian Baier was responsible for the festival.
Before 2013, the International Gluck Festival was held under the umbrella of the State Theater in Nuremberg, until 2008 under the direction of General Manager Wulf Konold , until 2012 under the direction of Peter Theiler .
history
In 2005 the International Gluck Festival was founded by Wulf Konold , then director of the Nuremberg Theater, and Axel Baisch , then managing director with the support of Nürnberger Versicherung . In 2008, 2010 and 2012 the festival was organized by the Nuremberg State Theater. In 2013 the Internationale Gluck Opern Festspiel GmbH (recognized as a gGmbH since 2015) was founded as the organizer of the newly constituted and organized festival, which held the first festival in 2014.
Festspiel GmbH cooperates regionally, nationally and internationally with artistic institutions and artists.
Artists
A selection of the artists at the International Gluck Festival since it was founded in 2005:
- 2005: Ann Murray , Olivier Tambosi , Howard Arman , Philippe Auguin , Inbal Pinto , Avshallom Pollack , Claus Guth , Helen Malkowsky
- 2008: Marina Prudenskaya, Reinhard Goebel , Bruno Weil , Bruno Klimek , Guido Johannes Rumstadt , Olivier Tambosi , Michael Hofstetter , Michi Gaigg , Wulf Konold , Alexander Liebreich
- 2010: Véronique Gens , Marc Minkowski , Anne Sofie von Otter , Antoine Tamestit , Mireille Delunsch , Claus Guth
- 2012: Ottavio Dantone , Andreas Baesler , Goya Montero , Marcus Bosch , Václav Luks , Adriana Kučerová , Manfred Jung , Vivicagenaux
- 2014: Philippe Auguin , Anna Dennis , Michi Gaigg , Manfred Jung , Sebastian Hirn , Roland Kluttig , Wolfgang Katschner , Christiane Oelze , Attila Pasztor , Gerhild Romberger , Andreas Spering , Wang Xinpeng
- 2016: Aris Argiris , Daniel Behle , Jiří Bubeníček , Valer Sabadus , Michi Gaigg , Elīna Garanča , Michael Hofstetter , Cathy Marston , Christoph Spering
- 2019: Philippe Jaroussky , Mauro Peter , Valer Sabadus , Anna Kasyan , Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli , Samuel Mariño , Terry Wey , Max Emanuel Cenčić , Sonia Prina , Michael Hofstetter , Dominique Horwitz
Ensembles
A selection of the ensembles that have performed at the International Gluck Festival since it was founded in 2005:
Les Musiciens du Louvre , Le Concert Spirituel, Accademia Bizantina, Concerto Köln , Vocal Consort Berlin , Handel Festival Orchestra Hall , recreationBarock, L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra , Lautten Compagney Berlin, Collegium 1704 , State Philharmonic Nürnberg (Nuremberg Philharmonic), Hessian State Orchestra , Orchestra of the Ludwigsburg Festival , Munich Chamber Orchestra , Philharmonic Orchestra Landestheater Coburg , Philharmonic Orchestra Würzburg, Prague Philharmonic
In 2014, on the 300th birthday of Christoph Willibald Gluck , the motto of the festival was “ReFORM and ReVISION” and went beyond Nuremberg's borders with performances in Berching , Erlangen , Coburg , Freystadt and Fürth . In 2016 the "ZEITkultur / STREITkultur" festival spanned the "Gluck radius of action" from Nuremberg to Fürth, Würzburg , Erlangen, Amberg , Neumarkt and Ansbach .
Web links
- Festival website
- Culturegraph information on the Gluck Opera Festival
Individual evidence
- ^ International Gluck Opera Festival. International Gluck Opera Festival, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Paride ed Elena ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Staatstheater-nuernberg.de, accessed on August 9, 2017)
- ^ NMZ of April 7, 2014.
