Roland Geyer

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Roland Geyer (born December 29, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian cultural manager and opera director. Since 2006 he has been director of the Theater an der Wien .

Life

Geyer studied business mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology and sports science at the University of Vienna . From 1977 he worked for five years as an IT analyst in a computer company and as an IT trainer at the Vienna Economic Development Institute (Wifi). Geyer also wrote four textbooks on software design and programming. He then completed the music management course at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and became head of the city's cultural and sports system in Amstetten . In 1983 he founded the Amstetten Summer Festival .

Jeunesse Musicale

From 1987 to 1996 Geyer was general secretary of Jeunesse Musicale and during this time organized around 3,500 concerts across Austria with around sixty employees. In 1987 he founded the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra together with the conductor Manfred Honeck, and in 1990 he initiated the annual international autumn festival of the "Jeunesse" in Vienna. He was also a member of the board of trustees of Jeunesses Musicales International , and from 1995 to 1997 he was also president of the "Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra".

KlangBogen and Oster Klang

Geyer took up his position as Vienna Music Director in 1996 and was responsible for around seventy events (concerts and music theater productions) every year. He also served as a board member at the Wien Modern Festival , the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra . Geyer also served as music director for ten years: he helped the KlangBogen summer festival , which showed opera productions in the Theater an der Wien , to international recognition and founded the OsterKlang , a festival in Holy Week , which was dedicated to spiritual works of music literature.

Theater an der Wien

“Vienna can only cope with three opera houses if there is a clever positioning”. This sentence shaped and continues to shape Geyer's directorship of the Theater an der Wien , which he took over at the beginning of 2006, in the Mozart year . On the one hand the State Opera as a daily repertoire company, on the other hand the Volksoper as a four-division house with opera, operetta, musical and ballet, and last but not least the Theater an der Wien as a stagione opera house for a music theater “open borders” with a focus on Baroque on the one hand, operas of the 20th and 21st centuries on the other. Geyer succeeded in engaging world-famous musicians and singers, directors and outfitters - such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Edita Gruberová , Claus Guth and Christian Lacroix - and won the approval of the audience, the international press and colleagues.

“You also have to take into account what is happening in the Theater an der Wien. That has really been remarkable lately. "

- Gerard Mortier : In conversation with Joachim Lange, Paris, June 18, 2009

Since September 2012, the Vienna Chamber Opera has also been under Geyer's overall direction.

See also

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriela Schnabel: Roland Geyer: "My job is my life, the little forester's house is my elixir of life" format.at, September 14, 2009
  2. ^ ORF : An all-rounder with an unusual career , July 14, 2007
  3. ↑ “Neue-AZ” exclusive conversation with Jeunesse boss Roland Geyer: Newcomers who enjoy taking risks . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 19, 1986, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Until 2005, the theater was mainly played with musicals. Amusingly, there is an English and Italian article in Wikipedia about the KlangBogen festival , but not yet in German.
  5. ↑ Joachim Lange: Online Musik Magazin , accessed on February 12, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Geyer, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural manager and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna