Opera Oder-Spree
Oper Oder Spree is a music festival to promote young singers in Neuzelle , Beeskow and Sauen in the east of Brandenburg .
General
The festival was officially founded in 2001, with an annual opera production and a parallel master class for singing being part of it. This master class has been held at Beeskow Castle since 1991 , led by the chamber singer Jutta Schlegel . Together with the Neuzeller Summer Opera, which has been in production since 1998, it became the Oder Spree opera. Until 2007, Jutta Schlegel was the patron of the project, which is managed by Beeskow Castle and the Neuzelle Abbey Foundation .
The opera production
Since 2001 there has been a merging opera production with the master class. During the course, we will then already see who is suitable for next year's opera. The rest of the cast will be determined through an audition. As an international project, the New Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra annually Sofia committed since 2006 by members of the opera house Russe strengthened. The young singers study the opera under the direction of Jutta Schlegel at the beginning of the year, musically and scenically in Beeskow, in order to then perform it in the selected venues from July to August. With one exception, the operas are given in German translations or the German original language. When selecting operas, it was always important to ensure that pieces from the unknown repertoire were also represented. The following pieces have been performed since 2001:
- 2001 Georg Friedrich Händel : Ariadne ( Arianna in Creta )
- 2002 Gioachino Rossini : The silk ladder
- 2003 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The Goose from Cairo
- 2004 Peter Tschaikowski : Jolanthe
- 2005 Christoph Willibald Gluck : Orpheus and Eurydice
- 2006 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The Abduction from the Seraglio
- 2007 Giovanni Paisiello : The Barber of Seville
- 2008 Florian Leopold Gassmann : The young countess
- 2009 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Don Giovanni
- 2010 Albert Lortzing : Casanova
- 2011 Antonio Salieri : Angiolina
- 2012 Franz Schubert : The Friends of Salamanka
- 2013 Antonio Vivaldi : Ottone in villa
- 2014 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Così fan tutte
- 2015 Cole Porter : Vodka Cola
- 2016 Georg Friedrich Handel : Orlando
- 2017 Jacques Offenbach : Orpheus in the underworld
- 2018 Peter Lund (text) and Wolfgang Böhmers (music): Jedermann - a musical about learning to die
- 2019 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The Magic Flute
The master class
In 1991 the chamber singer Jutta Schlegel initiated the "International Opera Course at Beeskow Castle". A popular singer herself during the GDR, she made it her business to teach young opera singers. More and more singers from Eastern Europe also came and even Chinese students find their way from their home country to Neuzelle again and again. As part of the opera course, practice-oriented concerts soon developed, in which the students regularly demonstrate their skills. These include the "Festive Song Recital" at Beeskow Castle, the "Opera in the Barn" in the Kunstscheune in Sauen and the "Festive Opera Gala" in Neuzelle and Beeskow, accompanied by the Brandenburg State Orchestra . Every year three main prizes with scholarships are awarded at this gala. a. the "Grand Prix Oder-Spree". In the beginning of 1991 the internationally celebrated soprano Ricarda Merbeth also took part in the opera course.
The teachers of the course
- Jutta Schlegel (vocals)
- Bernd Riedel (vocals)
- Snežana Brzaković (vocals)
- Gerhard Schlegel (accompanist)
- Gerd Jordan (accompanist)
- Alexej Ilenko (accompanist)
- Andreas Lisius (Musical Director Opera in the Barn )
- Ulrika Lang (Director Opera in the Barn )
- Manfred Ernst (dramaturgy opera in the barn )
- Anke Rauthmann (Director Opera in the Barn )