Reto Müller (Rossini researcher)

Reto Müller (born February 1964 in Basel ) is a Swiss collector and opera researcher , especially the works of Gioachino Rossini .

Life

Müller initially worked for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) as a dispatcher / dispatcher for 25 years and was already active as an opera researcher during this time. In 2010 he gave up his daily job and has since worked as an expert on music theater and bel canto operas, especially the works of Rossini.

He has concentrated on researching Rossini's works since 1979 and collects and researches in the field. Müller wrote numerous articles and reviews for publications of the Rossini societies, specialist organs on music theater and is often program booklet author.

Müller has been a member of the Deutsche Rossini Society (DRG) since 1990 and has been its executive chairman since 1996.

Müller has been active in an advisory and organizational role at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad since 1991. A year later he also started working as a freelancer at the Fondazione Rossini in Pesaro (since 2011 member and secretary of the scientific advisory board of the Fondazione Rossini).

Müller is a member of the patronage committee of the "Grand Opera Wilhelm Tell" association, which organizes open-air performances of Guillaume Tell on the Rütli .

On December 1, 2018, Müller was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern .

Exhibitions (curator)

• Rossini a Napoli , Teatro di San Carlo , Naples ; December 1991 to January 1992
• Portrait of Rossini , foyer of the Stuttgart State Opera ; May 15 to July 1, 1993
• Homage to Rossini , gallery in the GENO-Haus Stuttgart; June 9th to July 7th 1999
• Homage to Rossini , Bad Wildbad pump room ; July 11-25, 1999

Publications

Editing

• (as DRG secretary from 1993–96): Bollettino del Centro Rossiniani di Studi and Lettere e Documenti
• DRG newsletter and annual publication La Gazzetta (editor)
• with Bernd-Rüdiger Kern (Ed.): Rossini in Paris. Conference proceedings. An event of the France Center of the University of Leipzig in cooperation with the German Rossini Society. Publications of the France Center (vol. 8) and series of publications of the German Rossini Society (vol. 4), Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-935693-76- 1 .
• Homage to Rossini . Annotated catalog in homage to Rossini , 1999
• About Amadeus Wendt and the first German Rossini book , in Stendhal / Wendt: Rossini's Leben und Treiben , 2003
• Rossini and the Libretto - Notes in Letters and Documents , in Rossini and the Libretto . Conference proceedings, 2010

Contributions

• Rossini e Hiller attraverso i documenti e gli scritti , in: Bollettino del Centro Rossiniano di Studi , 1992
• Rossini nel giudizio di Amadeus Wendt , in: Bollettino del Centro Rossiniano di Studi , 1999
• The original version of Rossini's ' Stabat Mater ' , in: Rossini in Paris , 2002
• Rossini in Bad Kissingen , in: La Gazzetta , 2003
• Rossini's ' Messa di Gloria ' and the musical life of Naples from 1819/20 in the perception of the Saxon composer Carl Borromäus von Miltitz , in: La Gazzetta , 2012
• Lo 'Stabat Mater' del 1832: Rossini (e Tadolini ) alla crociata del 'Mufti' , in: Quaderni della Fondazione Donizetti , 44, 2015

Programs (selection)

• ' La Cenerentola '. The triumph of kindness , Rossini in Wildbad program, 2010

Libretto editions

• Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell (Wilhelm Tell) (opera texts by the German Rossini Society), July 2, 2013
• Gioachino Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims ossia L'albergo del Giglio d'Oro (The Journey to Reims or The Hotel to the Golden Lily) (opera texts by the German Rossini Society), June 25, 2014 (with Luigi Balochi)
• Gioachino Rossini: Bianca e Falliero (Opera Texts of the German Rossini Society) paperback, May 18, 2015
• Gioachino Rossini: Sigismondo (Sigismund) (opera texts by the German Rossini Society), February 4, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]

Web links

• Reto Mueller