2024-06-14 03:30:00
What successful that was! “Don Carlo” – the “operklosterneuburg” manufacturing from the summer time of 2023 – was so nicely obtained that it will likely be performed once more this 12 months. And the piece was most likely so profitable due to him: world opera star Günther Groissböck, who not solely performed the position of King Philip, but additionally took the course.
The 2024 season will start with Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” – there’s a big rush and a further efficiency has already been introduced. “Don Carlo” is on this system 4 evenings (July 18, July 23, July 28 and August 1). Groissböck is a part of the “Experimental Revival” – that is taking place for the primary time within the historical past of opera! – included. And hearth and flames for his return. “Final 12 months we achieved one thing wonderful, we will be so unhappy. “The need to get used to it once more, simply because it was, shouldn’t be sufficient to return again” – Groissböck can also be certain for the viewers.
Full success final 12 months: Don Carlo.
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The Austrian bass is an enormous fan of Klosterneuburg: “It is no secret that I am on this place and that the monastery has unimaginable potential.” In “Don Carlo” one thing particular got here throughout splendidly: “You are able to do within the Kaiserhof the non secular and the worldly collectively, the unworldly and the heavenly fantastically. There are limitless items that might be good and will go away a really particular mark.”
Idealism and bravado
Regardless of all of the curiosity within the place, it additionally creates challenges for artists. Specifically – as typically – due to its proximity to Vienna. “Culturally, it is virtually part of Vienna, at the least when it comes to aspirations, as a result of the viewers overlaps. You anticipate high quality just like the State Opera.” However hardly anybody is evident “with what finances we are able to handle this, what idealism and what bravado goes into it that one thing like this comes out like final 12 months. That is actually a miracle.”
The “operklosterneuburg” is managed intelligently and thoroughly,” emphasizes Groissböck. This contains investments for the orchestra this 12 months. A small roof ought to present reduction in gentle rain – and provides the organizers higher playing cards within the climate lottery.
Final 12 months we have been fortunate. Not one efficiency was performed fully within the corridor; folks solely needed to transfer twice through the piece. Is there a secret recipe for good climate? “Final 12 months I did not have any particular rituals. Every so often I appeared up, reached into my pocket and gripped the rosary a bit tighter. “That labored nicely,” Groissböck smiles knowingly: “Do not stiffen and proper your self an excessive amount of, so issues often work out higher – together with the time.” And the middle has an excellent reference to the highest anyway. “Sure, that was all the time Michi Garschall’s customary announcement. A minimum of we’re on the switchboard,” says Groissböck.
The entire package deal final 12 months was so good – and I’ve truly talked to lots of people – that if we do it the best way we did final 12 months, we’re unlikely to fail. Günther Groissböck
The euphoria is already nice, Groissböck is optimistic: “The entire package deal final 12 months was so good – and I actually talked to lots of people – if we handle to do it like we did final 12 months, it is hardly we fail Postscript : Besides perhaps within the climate…
However even this concern – which is all the time current in out of doors occasions – can’t dampen the prospect. On each “Don Carlo” and “Norma”: “I comply with every little thing intently, there’s a group chat from ‘operklosterneuburg’. I all the time watch with nice curiosity because it grows.” First, the empty imperial courtyard, then the primary scaffolding and at last an impressive stage. This will probably be very demanding this 12 months – in any case, he has to accommodate two productions working in parallel. Design: within the trial mode by Hans Kudlich, the music course is Christoph Campestrini, the course is Monica Rusu-Radmann – just for “Norma”, for “Don Carlo” along with Groissböck. The one change to the “Don Carlo” ensemble is Daniel Fehlhard, who performs the Marquis of Posa (earlier 12 months: Thomas Weinhappel). “Norma” guarantees the invention of a singer: Gabriela Hrzenjak, who seems as Clotilda.
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