Opera in the St. Margarethen quarry

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The angel by the set designer Amra Bergman for Robert Dornhelm's production of Tosca

The Opera in the St. Margarethen Quarry (until 2014 St. Margarethen Opera Festival ) is an annual open-air opera festival in the Roman quarry in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland ( Austria ).

history

The opera in the St. Margarethen quarry was founded at the suggestion of Marcel Prawy under the name of the St. Margarethen Opera Festival. From the very beginning, the Opera Festival had the intention of offering so-called “true to work” productions and took place for the first time in 1996. Since then there have been opera performances and concerts with classical and pop music every year in the summer months of July and August on the open-air natural stage . From 2001 onwards, a children's opera was staged every year in the “Papagenos Opernwelt” quarry in St. Margarethen as part of the opera festival . The stage was in the disused part of the Roman quarry . The founder and director of the festival was the Austrian Wolfgang Werner until mid-2014 .

In 2014 the opera festival had to file for bankruptcy. As a result, Wolfgang Werner resigned. The performances of the 2014 season were played according to plan. However, the owner of the Roman quarry, the Esterházy Foundation , aimed to continue the opera festival. The game operations for 2014 were taken over by the newly founded Arenaria GmbH .

In August 2017, the production of the troubadour planned for 2018 was canceled due to the lack of support from the state of Burgenland .

In 2019 Daniel Serafin was appointed artistic director of the opera in the St. Margarethen quarry.

In 2020 the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

program

Set design by Manfred Waba for La traviata , 2008
Scene from Tosca with Andrea Carè and Martina Serafin , 2015
Roman quarry with scenery for Rigoletto , 2009
Opera lounge with a view of the foyer park
Entrance area of ​​the festival area

Opera performances

Every summer, well-known operas are performed on the large stage of the Roman quarry in St. Margarethen. Both the stage design, which seeks to integrate into the natural backdrop, and the musical performances attract around 160,000 visitors annually. There is space for 4,670 people per event on the open-air stage.

In 2016, The Love Potion was played on the smaller Ruffini stage - named after the head of Prince Esterházy's quarry, Romulo Ruffini - for around 2,200 visitors, as the Passion Play, which is held every five years, took place on the big stage.

Children's opera

In “Papagenos Opernwelt”, a specially created area in a side quarry, fairy tale operas for children aged 6 and over have been performed for years. Well-known melodies and stories are staged for the opera audience of tomorrow. In 2015 and 2016 the children's opera was performed in the Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt.

roman quarry exclusive

As part of the “römersteinbruch exclusive” series, the St. Margarethen Opera Festival presented concerts in the areas of classical , pop and jazz . Personalities such as Jessye Norman , Montserrat Caballé , Elīna Garanča , Udo Jürgens , Paolo Conte , Christina Stürmer , Leonard Cohen and Norah Jones have already been guests here.

Festival site

The festival area in the Roman quarry St. Margarethen was the largest natural stage in Europe.

In 2007 and 2008, the natural space on the festival site was rebuilt and redesigned, taking into account the special nature of the rocky backdrop. At the same time, the necessary infrastructural conditions were created.

Award

Productions

Web links

Commons : Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OFS: Werner resigns management on ORF-Burgenland from July 1, 2014, accessed on July 2, 2014
  2. ↑ Arenaria is the new organizer in St. Margarethen in the Kleine Zeitung of September 22, 2014, accessed on October 19, 2014
  3. ↑ diepresse.com: Opera in the St. Margarethen quarry will be canceled in 2018 . Article dated August 10, 2017, accessed August 12, 2017.
  4. ^ Daniel Serafin is the new artistic director for opera. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  5. ^ Opera with Esterhazy. January 21, 2019, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Burgenland cultural summer canceled. In: ORF.at . March 24, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .
  7. ↑ diepresse.com: Maren Hofmeister, artistic director in Sankt Margarethen, about Donizetti, outdoor music theater, the Salzburg Mozart Week and riding. . Article dated April 22, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016.
  8. ↑ orf.at - New Sorrows of Young N. . Article dated July 7, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '12.9 "  N , 16 ° 38' 3.8"  E