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The Anton Bruckner University is one of seven Austrian Universities for Music, Drama and Dance, and one of four universities in Linz. 850 students from all parts of the world study here. They are taught by 200 Professors and teaching staff, who are internationally recognised artists, academics and teachers.
Courses of study, research and performance are offered by the 12 Institutes of the Bruckner University. The following pages give an insight into the various activities of these Institutes.
The Bruckner University sees its role both in artistic, performing, pedogogical and academic education and in the development, promotion and communication of the arts.
The university library of the Anton Bruckner Private University for music, dance and drama is the largest music library in Upper Austria. The inventory runs to over 100,000 items which support and sustain research and teaching at the university. The majority of items are available for borrowing.
With more than 500 events, among them chamber and orchestral concerts, plays, dance and jazz performances and concerts of contemporary music as well as lectures and discussions, the Bruckner University is one of the region's largest organizers and presenters of cultural events.
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Opera in three acts based on an original by Niccolò Minato and Silvio Stampiglia
Production of the music theatre studio
29 and 30 April 2017 at the Redoutensäle in Linz
5 and 6 May 2017 at the Stadttheater Bad Hall
Performance in Italian with German surtitles
Duration 90 minutes
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Handel's third-last opera about the amorous entanglements of the ancient King Xerxes became famous not least for the aria "ombra ma fui". George Frideric Handel's late work (premièred in 1738) about the eponymous despot is peppered with electrifying music and its ambivalent characters are astonishingly modern. They explore the abysses between love and hate, between dictatorship and freedom in a rousing dialogue with and against each other.
In its combination of drama and absurdity, of inherited power and personal resistance, Xerxes is thrilling to the very last note.
Xerxes, along with Julius Caesar one of the most frequently performed of Handel's 42 operas today, was premiered in London in April 1738 and was a failure despite the now famous Largo "Ombra mai fu".
Audiences at the time missed the great dacapo arias, as many of the arias are in one part and short.
However, Handel's Xerxes is an enduring and cheerful opera that moves between comedy and tragedy, with the music very clearly expressing the emotions of its very human characters.
Content:
In his army camp in the hinterland, the emotionally unstable Xerxes raves about the shade-giving loveliness of a tree. When he hears the voice of a stranger singing from afar, he immediately falls in love with the owner of this voice, even though he has never seen her before. At first he wants to make her his lover, but then he prefers to marry her straight away.
This decision causes problems. For one thing, Xerxes is already betrothed to a distant princess called Amastre. Secondly, his brother Arsamenes already has a passionate love affair with the beautiful singer, Romilda.
To complicate matters further, Romilda's sister Atalanta is also in love with Arsamenes and is prepared to use all sorts of tricks to steal him away from her sister.
If that's not intricate enough, you'll be pleased to learn that Xerxes' fiancée Amastre has disguised herself as a man in his army in order to be closer to her lover, whom she rightly doesn't quite trust, without being recognised.
And so all the ingredients are already in place that make up a typical baroque tale of mistaken identity, love and revenge and which inspired Handel to write a wealth of sensational melodies.
Enjoy!
Musical direction & harpsichord, Thomas Kerbl
Musical rehearsals & accompaniment, Sigurd Hennemann, Oksana Kuzo, Yoko Takahashi, Sergey Kim
Staging, Peter Pawlik
Costumes, Susanne Kerbl
Make-up, Anita Bachl
Cast
Xerxes, King of Persia Juhyuk Kim (05 May) / Markus Stumpner (06 May)
Arsamenes, Romilda's lover Domen Fajfar
Amastre, Xerxes' bride Mariana Pedrozo (05 May) / Katrin Hubinger (06 May)
Romilda, Ariodate's daughter Makoto Yoshizawa (05 May) / Kie Kanazawa (06 May)
Atalanta, daughter of Ariodate Akine Matsumoto
Ariodate, Captain of Xerxes Navid Taheri (05 May) / Thomas Schneider (06 May)
Elviro, Arsamenes' servant Miroslav Mehandzhiev
Pöstlingberg Quartet of the Anton Bruckner Private University:
Violin 1 Veronika Tief
Violin 2 Maria Elisabeth Köstler
Viola Lucia Schwendinger
Violoncello Gunther Skala, Beatriz González-Crespo
Opera buffa in two acts
Libretto by Giovanni Maria Diotati, in a German adaptation
In German language
Cooperation of the Anton Bruckner Private University & the Landestheater Linz
Premiere 04.05.2016
Venue FoyerStage Music Theatre
Duration 01 hr. 10 min.
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Chaos in the theatre: the world premiere of an important work is imminent. But nothing wants to work. The singers argue, the conductor can't compose because of all the noise, the prima donna who has been engaged as a guest shines with star allure and turns out to be the conductor's former lover. To make matters worse, the text of the new opera fails completely ...
Domenico Cimarosa's opera L'impresario in angustie from 1786 takes the theatre business to task. The fact that much of it is still relevant today can be seen in an entertaining and cheeky new adaptation for the Grand Foyer of the Music Theatre, a collaboration between the State Theatre and the Anton Bruckner Private University.
Direction
Musical direction Marc Reibel, Sigurd Hennemann
Staging John F. Kutil
Stage Christian Schmidleithner
Costumes Richard Stockinger
Dramaturgy Thomas Barthol
Cast
The opera director Dominik Nekel
The conductor Richard Klein
The house poet Rastislav Lalinsky
The colouratura singer Kie Kanazawa
The soubrette Miriam Böhmdorfer
The alto Christa Ratzenböck, Karen Robertson
Orchestra of the Anton Bruckner Private University
Concertmaster Anja Kreuzhuber
1st violin Egle Cekanaviciute, Elisabeth Köstler, Ashley do Rego
2nd violin Marija Cvejic, Tea Godec, Thessa Habeler, Tommaso Toni
Viola Amparo Infante, Dusan Markovic
Cello Elena Deinhammer
Double bass Theresa Pöschl
Flute Szofia Bartal
1st oboe Bettina Klinglmayr
2. Oboe Evelyn Renner
Bassoon Petra Seidl
1st horn Christian Wollmann
2nd horn Raya Panova
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte based on the comedy "La Folle Journee ou le Mariage de Figaro" by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Production by the Music Theatre Studio in an abridged version for two pianos
With students of the Institute for Singing and Music Theatre
Premiere 10.06.2016
Venue ABPU, Great Hall
Duration 2 hours 20 minutes; one intermission after the 2nd act
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Time and place of the action Castle of Count Almaviva
Aguasfrescas near Seville, around 1780
First performance, 1 May 1786 at the Burgtheater / Vienna
Conductor
Musical direction and version for two pianos Thomas Kerbl
Director and German surtitles Peter Pawlik
Costumes Astrid Lehner
Cast
Il Conte di Almaviva Rastislav Lalinsky
La Contessa di Almaviva Ran Seo
Figaro, valet de chambre Kazuhiro Terada
Susanna, chambermaid to the Countess Judith Österreicher/Kie Kanazawa
Cherubino, page to the Count Olena Pruscha
Marcellina, the countess's chambermaid Kathrin Hubinger
Bartolo, doctor from Seville Helmut Bogengruber
Basilio, music master to the Countess Hong Hee Seo
Don Curzio, Judge Hong Hee Seo
Barbarina, daughter of the gardener Johanna Falkinger
Clara, a maid Maria Frauscher
Piano Thomas Kerbl and Anastasija Govorova
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