Salzburg Festival and Theater Children's Choir

The Salzburg Festival and Theater Children's Choir has existed since October 2010, when the children's choirs of the Salzburg Festival and the Salzburg State Theater were merged. The choir director is Wolfgang Götz .

tasks and goals

The choir is involved in large concert and opera productions of the festival and the state theater and offers children and young people not only the opportunity to perform but also a sound year-round vocal and musical training. In various pre-choir groups, the younger children are introduced to singing according to their age . The children's choir currently comprises around 200 young singers aged 6 to 16 from Austria and Germany , from whom choir groups are put together for the individual projects.

In addition to its own concerts, the choir has performed with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the Festival and has sung under the direction of Bertrand de Billy , Zubin Mehta , Riccardo Muti , Simon Rattle , Esa-Pekka Salonen and Christian Thielemann . In 2013 the choir was in Mahler's Third and Eighth Symphonies with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela under Gustavo Dudamel , in Britten's War Requiem under Antonio Pappano and in a concert performance of Braunfels' opera Jeanne d'Arc under Manfred Honeck at the Felsenreitschule . In 2014 the choir was used in Monteverdi's Vespers under John Eliot Gardiner in Salzburg Cathedral .

The choir played on the opera stage at the Salzburg Festival a. a. in Die Frau ohne Schatten , Macbeth , Carmen , La Bohème and The Labyrinth - The Magic Flute, second part with. In May 2014 he celebrated a great success in a theater version of the children of Monsieur Mathieu at the Salzburg State Theater . At the 2014 Festival, the choir could be seen in Rosenkavalier under Franz Welser-Möst .

Regina Sgier is the voice trainer of the choir.

Web link

• Salzburg Festival , description of the ensemble