Tyrolean Festival Erl
The Tyrolean Festival Erl in Erl in Tyrol in Austria has been an annual opera and concert festival since 1998 with a summer and a winter season.
The summer season lasts 25 days, usually starting on the first Thursday in July. Since 2012, the summer program has been supplemented by a winter season, which normally lasts from December 26th to January 6th. The piano days, which were held for the first time in April 2017, complement the program of the festival on the Palm Sunday weekend from Thursday to Sunday with a four-day festival dedicated to piano music literature in the broadest sense.
On March 31, 2020, Festival President Hans Peter Haselsteiner announced that there will be no summer festivals in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
history
The Tyrolean Festival Erl was founded in 1997 by its artistic director (now artistic director) Gustav "Gustl" Kuhn and his partner Andreas Schett and opened in 1998 with the performance of Das Rheingold . Gustav Kuhn also works as a conductor and director in Erl . Until 2012, games were played exclusively in the Passion Playhouse, in the parish church, in the “Blaue Quelle” / “Blue Quelvet” inn and at various outdoor venues such as the Kranzhorn or on the Inn at the barrage. During the Erl Passion Play , which takes place every six years, the Tyrolean Festival's central venue, the Passion Play House, was not available. Therefore, in 2002 in Kufstein and in 2008 in Innsbruck . This fact, too, led to the idea of an own festival hall in the immediate vicinity of the Passion Playhouse, which opened on December 26, 2012. In the summer of 2013, the year of the Jubilee Passion (400 years of Passion), the advantage of having its own festival hall came into play for the first time: While the citizens of Erler put the Passion story on stage in the Passion Playhouse, the Tyrolean Festival Erl Summer took place next door in the Festspielhaus with Verdi's “Trilogia popolare ”on his 200th birthday.
The Tyrolean Festival Erl u. a. 2005 to Santander and 2015 to Beijing and Shanghai .
In October 2010, the construction of the new festival hall began in Erl, also to ensure modern rehearsal and performance conditions for the festival. The festival hall by architects Delugan Meissl catches the eye with its black facade. This consists of a complex geometry made of fiber cement panels.
The program of the Tyrolean Festival Erl includes around 30 events in the summer season, from operas to concerts and chamber music evenings , which are attended by over 20,000 spectators every year. Since the summer of 2014, both houses in the new festival district of Erl, the festival and passion play house have been used. In the annual winter season from December 26th to January 6th, the program in the Festspielhaus offers around 14 events with operas and concerts in the main program and recitals as well as chamber music in the “Specials” series. The festival has had almost 10,000 visitors annually in winter since the beginning.
In October 2015 the Tyrolean Festival Erl was represented at the Beijing Music Festival with the first scenic performances in China of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Tristan und Isolde .
As part of the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2017 , the festival was named the best festival. After a four-evenings revival of Richard Wagner's tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung , Gustav Kuhn was celebrated with a standing ovation in Erl at the end of July 2018. On July 31, 2018, the then 72-year-old director of the Tyrolean Festival Erl had to suspend his office after allegations of sexual harassment of musicians and singers at the festival. Andreas Leisner became interim director. In October 2018, Bernd Loebe was presented as the successor to Gustav Kuhn, he is to take over the management on September 1, 2019 alongside the artistic director of the Frankfurt Opera. Natascha Müllauer has been the commercial director of the Tyrolean Festival Erl since August 2018.
In the course of the foundation's establishment in 2017, the supervisory board was dissolved. At the beginning of 2020, the foundation board of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl decided, following a recommendation by the state audit office, to appoint a new supervisory board. This should include Hans Peter Haselsteiner , Maria Fekter , Brigitte Winkler-Komar, Barbara Rizzoli-Ellenhuber and Waltraud Orthner. The constituent meeting is scheduled for the beginning of April 2020.
Stagings / productions
| year | Opera | Concert (selection) |
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| 2018 [summer] | Gioacchino Rossini: Ermione Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser Richard Wagner: Die Walküre Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Siegfried , Götterdämmerung |
Cyril Scott: Symphony No. 1 in G major Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 3 in A minor "The Scottish" Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem Sofia Symphonics: Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations , William Walton: Violin Concerto Franui Julia Malischnig & Friends: Una Noche de Guitarra Exótica Mélodie Zhao Haydn Orchestra : Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony , Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D major ("London") |
| 2017 [winter] | Gioacchino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème |
Johannes Brahms: Symphonies No. 1–4 (opening concert & closing concert) JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio |
| 2017 [summer] | Gioacchino Rossini: Semiramide Richard Wagner: Lohengrin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute |
Sofia Symphonics Nils Mönkemeyer Bartolomey Bittmann Alma Julia Malischnig Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies No. 4 and 5 |
| 2016 [winter] | Gioachino Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata (revival) |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 2 “Hymn of Praise” Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 Anton Webern: Variations for Orchestra op. 30 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 New Year 's Eve Concert |
| 2016 [summer] | Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Siegfried , Götterdämmerung Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute |
Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: . Piano Concerto No. 1 Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony , Op 64th Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Suite Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in. Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto for piano, trumpet and string orchestra Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 , Symphony No. 7 |
| 2015 [winter] | Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco (revival) |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 Anton Webern: Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, Op. 6 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 Musical New Year 's Eve Concert New Year 's Eve Concert |
| 2015 [summer] | Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde , The Mastersingers of Nuremberg , Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Siegfried , Götterdämmerung | Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem |
| 2014 [winter] | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (new production) Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio (new production) Matthias Drievko: The nightingale and the rose Kurt Weill: The seven deadly sins |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 Anton Webern: Passacaglia op. 1 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique” New Year 's Eve Concert New Year 's Concert |
| 2014 [summer] | Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Siegfried , Götterdämmerung Béla Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle |
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 to 9 |
| 2013 [winter] | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni (new production) Giacomo Puccini: Tosca (new production) |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 , Piano Concerto No. 5 Anton Webern : Five Movements for String Orchestra Op. 5, Symphony in Two Movements Op. 21 Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” New Year's Eve Concert New Years Concert |
| 2013 [summer] | Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto , Il trovatore , La traviata ("Trilogia popolare", new productions) Nabucco (revival) |
Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphonies No. 1 to 9 ( BEETHOVEN PLUS: 5 concert evenings supplemented by contemporary chamber music between two symphonies or by a world premiere by Gerhard Wimberger with the title "Klangwege" (WP) before the 9th symphony) |
| 2012 [winter] | Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle (new production / opening of the Festspielhaus) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (new production) Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco (new production) |
Angelo di Montegral: Omaggio a Bartók XXI (UA) Daniel Schnyder : Momentum (UA) Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor Gioacchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle New Year 's Eve concert |
| 2012 [summer] | Richard Wagner: Lohengrin (new production), Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg , Tristan and Isolde , Parsifal Giacomo Puccini: Tosca (Hall Opera) |
Tristan Schulze : Concert piece for alphorn, organ and orchestra (WP) Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Carl Orff: Carmina Burana Georg Friedrich Händel : Concerto a due cori Giorgio Battistelli : Sciliar (WP) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 |
| 2011 | Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser and the singer's war on Wartburg (new production), The Mastersingers of Nuremberg , Parsifal |
Elmar Lampson : Passacaglia (ÖEA) Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 Paul Engel : Missa ad venerationem artium et vitae (2001/2011) Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem |
| 2010 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman |
Kurt Estermann: 2 orchestral pieces Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony op. 64 Ernst Ludwig Leitner / Alois Schöpf : The Wedding (WP) Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem |
| 2009 | Richard Strauss / Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Elektra Richard Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio |
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 Franz Schubert: Mass No. 6 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 to 6 |
| 2008 | Wolfgang Mitterer : The brave little tailor | Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem Christoph Cech : Mass for the Schwarzmanderkirche Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 |
| 2007 | Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Siegfried , Tristan and Isolde , Götterdämmerung , Parsifal |
Johannes Brahms : Symphony No. 1 to 4 Wolfgang Rihm : Sotto Voce II |
| 2006 | Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde , Parsifal | Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 , Symphony No. 1 , Symphony No. 2 |
| 2005 | Richard Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung ( Rheingold , Walküre , Siegfried , Götterdämmerung ) Richard Strauss: Elektra , Guntram |
Josef Haydn: The Creation of Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 , Symphony No. 9 |
| 2004 | Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Siegfried , Götterdämmerung | Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 Norbert Zehm: Games® Alessandro Solbiati: A leaf of Gras |
| 2003 | Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Götterdämmerung , Siegfried |
Luciano Berio : sequence IX a for clarinet (1980) Morton Feldman : Palais de Mari (1986) Igor Stravinsky: L'histoire du Soldat -Suite (1924) |
| 2002 | Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold (concert version) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Il re pastore (concert version) Johann Strauss son : Die Fledermaus |
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 |
| 2001 | Richard Wagner: The Valkyrie Sergei Prokofjew: Peter and the Wolf |
Werner Pircher: Birthday music with a good orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphony No. 1 to 9 Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major |
| 2000 | Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung |
Franz Hackl : money is overrated (WP) Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem |
| 1999 | Richard Wagner: Siegfried |
Gustav Kuhn / Pepe D'Onghia / Andreas Schett / Markus Kraler: Missa Intergalactica. Music for use by wind instruments, singers and organ (WP) Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra |
| 1998 | Richard Wagner: The Rheingold | Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 Herbert Grassl: Mass for soprano, alto, 5 groups wind instruments and live electronics ( WP ) Hans-Jürgen Doetsch: Inntal saga Symphonic poetry for two orchestras, choir and soloists ( WP ) |
Chamber music
Every year, in addition to opera and concert performances, a chamber music cycle is held in Erl. These chamber music evenings took place in the “Blaue Quelle” inn and in the Erl parish church until summer 2012 and are organized by various artists from the Tyrolean Festival Erl and from among the members of the Accademia di Montegral. Since summer 2013, the series has been based in the new festival hall.
Orchestra of the Tyrolean Festival Erl
The orchestra of the Tyrolean Festival Erl was founded in Erl in summer 1999. The musicians come together every year in June, July and December as part of the Tyrolean Festival Erl. The orchestra's artistic director is Gustav Kuhn .
The repertoire includes Beethoven's symphonies and the great works of the romantic repertoire from Bruckner, Tchaikovsky to Mahler, the operas Elektra and Guntram by Richard Strauss , all 10 great operas by Richard Wagner , as well as operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Giuseppe Verdi , Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini .
In 2010 and 2011 the orchestra of the Tyrolean Festival Erl was a guest at the concert series “Delirium” in the Salzburg Mozarteum .
The choir academy of the Tyrolean Festival Erl
The Choir Academy of the Tyrolean Festival Erl was founded in 2007 to provide the orchestra of the Tyrolean Festival with a musical partner. The artistic director of the ensemble is Gustav Kuhn, who works with the 32-strong main ensemble, which can be enlarged as required, to work on a variety of projects from a cappella programs to large opera productions.
After the debut in autumn 2007 with Beethoven's Missa solemnis , Bach's St. Matthew Passion followed in 2008 , both projects with the Haydn Orchestra from Bozen and Trento . Together with the Haydn Orchestra, the Choir Academy of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl also opened the Sagra Musicale Umbra in September 2008. The repertoire of the Choir Academy includes Verdi's Messa da Requiem , Beethoven's Missa solemnis , Mahler's Symphony No. 8 , Haydn's Nelson Mass , Rossini's Petite Mass solennelle , Beethoven's 9th Symphony , Schubert's E-flat major mass , Wagner's Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Beethoven's Fidelio and Strauss' Elektra .
Youth work
The Tyrolean Festival Erl has been committed to youth work since its inception. With a program that has been a special focus of the festival program since 2008, the next generation is actively promoted: reduced-price youth tickets, student discounts and accompanying events suitable for young people are intended to arouse and develop joy in music, understanding of the music and enthusiasm for the opera genre.
From 1998 to 2004 the students produced a festival newspaper together with journalists, graphic artists and photographers. In cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk, a one-hour radio broadcast from Erl was reported in 2006 as part of a media workshop. In 2008, for the performance of the children's opera The Brave Little Tailor by Wolfgang Mitterer , a competition was announced to reinterpret the fairy tale. For the staging of Fidelio in 2009, students designed their own program booklets for the first time, which were added to the regular evening programs. In 2010 there were also programs designed by students. In addition, a costume competition for Die Zauberflöte was announced and the designs were implemented by the Erler costume manufacturer. In 2011 the school project dealt with Beethoven's 9th Symphony . Every year in Erl there are rehearsals or shortened student performances of the operas, in which about 3000 primary and secondary school students take part.
Costume manufacture
Erl has had its own costume manufacture since 2007. Up until March 2017, Lenka Radecky, who is still responsible for the costumes of the Tyrolean Festival Erl as a costume designer, was in charge of the costume manufacture. Now, under the direction of Juliane Trockenbacher, one or two new productions of the Tyrolean Festival are created here every season and, in addition, complete costume sets are made for external productions, historical costumes, concert and evening wear made to measure, as well as handicrafts.
criticism
In 2018 allegations were published that had the precarious working conditions of the musicians as well as sexual assault by Gustav Kuhn on the subject. This debate was triggered by the journalist Markus Wilhelm on his blog dietiwag.at. These suspicions were confirmed when an open letter signed by several musicians was presented in July 2018.
On July 31, 2018, artistic director Gustav Kuhn had to suspend his office after these allegations of sexual harassment of musicians and singers at the festival. Andreas Leisner became interim director.
Wilhelm also described in his blog an unfair distribution of the costs of the festival hall between the developer and the state of Tyrol and the federal government.
Trials have been ongoing for all allegations since July 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ THE PROGRAM FOR THE PIANO DAYS 2017. Accessed May 30, 2017 .
- ↑ ORF : Haselsteiner cancels Erl Summer Festival , accessed on March 31, 2020
- ↑ Gustav Kuhn. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Roof construction magazine: Black Puzzle - Festspielhaus Erl ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Jan R. Krause, Eternit AG
- ^ Eternit AG museums and cultural sites
- ^ Kurier: Erl Festival in China: acclaimed Wagner mission . Article dated October 23, 2015, accessed October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Salzburger Nachrichten: Music Theater Prize: For the first time category for off-music theater . Article dated May 10, 2017, accessed June 1, 2017.
- ^ Stefan Weiss: Festival Erl: Artistic director Gustav Kuhn puts his function inactive. Der Standard , article dated July 30, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Peter Grubmüller: Lichtenberger singer also accuses Gustav Kuhn of sexual assault. OÖ Nachrichten , article from August 1, 2018, accessed on August 1, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: Erl: Bernd Loebe will succeed Kuhn . Article dated October 24, 2018, accessed October 24, 2018.
- ^ Causa Erl: Festival set up a supervisory board after scandals. In: Upper Austrian news . January 4, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ General assembly of the Tyrolean Festival Erl resolves to set up a supervisory board. January 3, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ^ Michael Ernst: Liesl Karlstadts most beautiful time. In: www.faz.net. December 31, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 .
- ^ Costume manufacturer of the Tyrolean Festival Erl , accessed on December 11, 2014.
- ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: Land reacts to festival allegations, artists cry out | Tiroler Tageszeitung online - news from now! In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . ( tt.com [accessed July 28, 2018]).
- ^ Open letter to the President of the Tyrolean Festival Erl . In: OTS.at . ( tt.com [accessed March 5, 2020]).
- ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: Open letter puts festival director Kuhn under massive pressure | Tiroler Tageszeitung online - news from now! In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . ( tt.com [accessed March 8, 2020]).
- ↑ Erl Festival: Artists accuse sexual assault in an open letter . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed on July 28, 2018]).
- ↑ Peter Grubmüller: Lichtenberger singer also accuses Gustav Kuhn of sexual assault. OÖ Nachrichten , article from August 1, 2018, accessed on August 1, 2018.
- ↑ die tiwag.org - A little background on the Gschwerl von Erl. Accessed on July 28, 2018 .
