St. Gallen Festival
The St. Gallen Festival is a cultural festival that takes place annually in June / July in St. Gallen ( Switzerland ). The festival took place for the first time in 2006 in the St. Gallen monastery district, a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The St. Gallen Concert and Theater Cooperative is the sponsor of the annual cultural festival.
The program of the St. Gallen Festival includes the opera, then concerts in various churches and, more specifically, the dance in the cathedral . The house orchestra of the festival is the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra .
history
At the first festival in 2006, Carmina Burana was performed as a scenic cantata - just as the composer Carl Orff intended. In this first production, the audience still had the cathedral towers behind them. Not unexpectedly, there were also critical reactions to allow the festival to take place in this special location. The same was presumably also true for the first performance of the dance in the cathedral; It has now lost its experimental character and is an integral part of the festival.
Productions on the open-air stage in the monastery courtyard
The east facade of the cathedral is available as a special backdrop for the festival , which the festival understood at best as an invitation to find a suitable opera with a clear reference to the performance location; the Cavalleria rusticana (2007), for example, takes place in a village square and in the course of the plot people come out of the church, or Lola and Turiddu meet in front of it. Little-known works are also to be played in the coming years; The St. Gallen Festival wants to set a programmatic counterpoint to the often all-too-popular festivals at home and abroad. The opera in 2010 was a Swiss premiere and - apparently a little less flattering and therefore not mentioned in the program - had only been performed four times beforehand.
Dance and concerts
The second pillar is dance. In each case, a dance production that is unique for the Swiss dance scene is being carried out in the baroque St. Gallen Cathedral, the content and execution of which is entirely dedicated to the church interior.
The concerts form the third pillar of the program, with these standing as a forum for early music. All concerts take place in the sacred rooms around the monastery square. The high point is always the big gala concert in the cathedral, the content of which in turn feels obliged to the open-air production.
Productions
| year | Opera | dance |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | because Covid-19 canceled | |
| 2019 | Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore Musical director: Michael Balke , director: Aron Stiehl |
Desiderium dance piece by Yuki Mori |
| 2018 |
Giacomo Puccini : Edgar Musical director: Leo Hussain , production: Tobias Kratzer |
Peregrinatio dance piece by Beate Vollack |
| 2017 |
Alfredo Catalani : Loreley Musical director: Stefan Blunier , production: David Alden |
Wreath speech dance piece by Jörg Weinöhl |
| 2016 |
Jules Massenet : Le Cid Musical director: Modestas Pitrėnas , director: Guy Joosten |
Rosary dance piece by Cathy Marston |
| 2015 | Giuseppe Verdi: I due Foscari Musical direction: Attilio Tomasello, production: Carlos Wagner |
Schweigerose dance piece by Jonathan Lunn |
| 2014 | Gaetano Donizetti: La favorita Musical direction: Attilio Tomasello , production: Guy Montavon |
Ignis dance piece by Marco Santi |
| 2013 | Giuseppe Verdi: Attila Musical direction: Antonino Fogliani, production: Stefano Poda |
Impronte Choreography: Marco Santi, Music: Heinz Lieb |
| 2012 |
Hector Berlioz : La damnation de Faust Musical director: Sébastien Rouland, director: Carlos Wagner |
Zwielicht Choreography: Marco Santi, Composition: Jay Schwartz |
| 2011 | Giuseppe Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata Musical direction: Antonino Fogliani, staging: Guy Montavon |
Pert Em Hru Choreography: Marco Santi, Composition: Paul Giger |
| 2010 |
Gaetano Donizetti : Il diluvio universale Musical direction: Antonino Fogliani, production: Inga Levant |
Sacra Choreography: Marco Santi , Composition: Anne Champert |
| 2009 |
Camille Saint-Saëns : Samson et Dalila Musical director: Sébastien Rouland, director: Stefano Vizioli |
Dance in the Cathedral Choreography: Philipp Egli |
| 2008 |
Giuseppe Verdi : Giovanna d'Arco Musical director: Antonino Fogliani , production: Giancarlo del Monaco |
Dance in the Cathedral Choreography: Philipp Egli, Roberto Galvan |
| 2007 |
Pietro Mascagni : Cavalleria rusticana Musical direction: Antonello Allemandi, production: Arnaud Bernard |
Dance in the Cathedral Choreography: Philipp Egli, Roberto Galvan |
| 2006 | Carl Orff: Carmina Burana Musical director: Jiři Kout , staging: Josef E. Köpplinger |
Dance in the Cathedral Choreography: Philipp Egli , Jörg Mannes |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Opera rarity Il Diluvio ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Review on ART-TV
- ^ Critique of Attila at the St. Gallen Festival in the Winterthurer Landbote
