Musical summer Amstetten

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The Musical Summer Amstetten is a summer festival in Amstetten , Lower Austria .

history

In 1983, Roland Geyer founded the tradition of producing its own productions for the entertaining music theater in Amstetten under the name Amstetten Summer Operetta . The director of the festival was then taken over by Heinz Ehrenfreund , who achieved a national success in 1987 with Paul Burkhard's fireworks ( Freddy Quinn guested as circus director Obolski), which in 1988 was recorded by the ORF , in which Deborah Sasson cast the role of Iduna was.

From 1989 musicals were produced in Amstetten, starting with the Austrian premiere of La Cage aux Folles . The production of the Rocky Horror Show 1992 was taken over at the Raimund Theater in Vienna . In the following years successful actors like Pia Douwes (as Maria in West Side Story ) could be seen for the first time in Amstetten. In 1999 Johann Kropfreiter took over the management and brought Andrew Lloyd Webber's youth work Joseph to a successful performance.

This was followed by a successful collaboration with the Klagenfurt City Theater (artistic director: Dietmar Pflegerl ). In 2006, he cooperated with the Deutsches Theater in Munich and the Wiener Stadthalle .

2008 followed with Elton John's Aida . After an anniversary season (“20 Years of Musical Summer Amstetten”) and a world premiere in 2010, there was a break in 2011 for the first time. In 2012, however, Der kleine Horrorladen was realized as part of the Lower Austrian Theater Festival (director: Werner Sobotka , choreography: Ramesh Nair , conductor: Christian Frank ).

From 2013 the same leading team worked on further productions, partly with the Swiss choreographer Simon Eichenberger .

The performance planned for 2020 has been postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

The festival is part of the Lower Austria Theater Festival .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corona crisis: summer theater: break from Amstetten to Weißenkirchen. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . May 4, 2020, accessed May 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Further cancellations at the theater festival. In: ORF.at . May 4, 2020, accessed May 6, 2020 .