the Rhine, the mountain is a place of longing for the country air-hungry capital city. Frederick the Great spent happy Prince years in the Rococo castle at the Grienericksee, his brother Henry established here, later a true Musenhof. And in 1912, ennobled Kurt Tucholsky, the 5000 inhabitants of the town finally, in literary terms, by its enchanting love story of Clärchen, and your Wolfgang.
in the eighties, the composer Siegfried Matthus, which was made as a ausgebombter Berlin youth in Rheinberg, Germany, the Abitur dreamed of establishing on the castle grounds for a music festival. Just after the turn of then it was possible to quickly the summer “chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg” to a fixed size in the trip calendar, the classical music fans.
The continued success led to the fact that Matthus was courted in the Ruppiner Land as a Duodezfürst – and it is, of course, held that, in 2014, succeeded, as he retired with 80 years of leadership of the chamber Opera, him, his son Frank in the direct dynastic succession. Matthus junior, a trained actor and theater Director, put the content in addition to world premieres, especially on the blockbusters of the operatic repertory, was in Rheinberg Verdi’s “Traviata”, Puccini’s “Tosca” and Bizet’s “Carmen” play. Pieces that are not only experience in Berlin constantly, but are actually, technically too heavy for the young singers, their promotion once the founding idea of the festival was.
unbridled wrath of the founder Matthus
The donors, the Land of Brandenburg and the district decided, therefore, to occupy in addition to a long-overdue organizational merger of the chamber Opera, the castle housed a music Academy, the Post of artistic Director. A search Committee was appointed, which addressed, among other things, Georg Quander, the Director of the Berlin state Opera from 1991 to 2002. And had to take his 67 years, in fact, Lust, once again, a music theatre festival.
Him as well as his Client, the unbridled wrath of the green met then the founder: Siegfried Matthus said, the works to be performed by him in Rheinberg, prohibition of the use of the composed festival fanfare and forced the dismissal of the popular concert format “The singing sea”. He even threatened, in the Festival court-its traditional to let the name take away.
Georg Quander hurts the irreconcilable attitude of the Patriarch, which would obviously leave prefer scorched earth to know as his life’s work in someone else’s hands. “We’ve know each other since the seventies, when Matthus was a dramaturge at the Komische Oper, and I was a guest student there,” says Quander. “As a composer, I have appreciated him and would have him honoured in the summer as the guest of honor in Rheinberg.” On the other hand, Georg Quander’s characters well-versed in dealing with dominant Artists, finally, to be General music Director was called at the state Opera Daniel Barenboim.
Georg quander photo: dpa/Ralf Hirschberger
First accents, the new artistic Director is already on to Easter. Then Henry Musenhof is to be revived, in the spirit of the 18th century. Century, with a program that combines a variety of Genres and all the senses. In addition to Haydn’s Opera “L’isola disabitata” and a concert with the Berliner lautten Compagney, it will be in April, also a guest performance by the Renaissance theatre with Peter Hacks’ acting piece “conversation in the house of stone about the absent Mr. von Goethe”, thematic guided visits to the castle, a literary Brunch and an Easter walk in the Park.
In the summer, the focus is as usual on the Opera. However, the pieces are shown, which you can experience in Berlin. As Domenico Cimarosa’s “Gli Orazi e i Curazi” of 1796. The music of tragedy plays in ancient Rome, it is the fight of two family clans, a Romeo-and-Juliet-story is embedded. Quander is himself the Director, Christoph Spering directs the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
To kick off a world premiere
A rarity on the stages is now Frederick Flotows “Martha”. Until a few decades ago, the 1847 belonged to come out of Opera, however, is at the heart of all the city theatre, also thanks to the Bel Canto qualities of the score. With the conductor Florian Ludwig Quander has hired a self-confessed Fan of the German Opera tradition, with Holger Potocki, a Director of musical comedies.
at The start of the festival there will be again a world premiere: Aurélien Bello, has conducted in the last years, a lot of in Rheinberg, Germany, is writing a music theatre piece that deals with the trials and tribulations of the modern man in the digital world. The Libretto for “Sybil, and Butler” comes from the two writers Claudia Prietzel and Peter Henning.
in Berlin, finally, of where the majority of the visitors of the festival to come, the new chamber Opera Rheinsberg on Monday, the 14. January, with a concert with choir, orchestra and three conductors. In the Konzerthaus on the Gendarmenmarkt will then be sounded in addition to appetizers from Flotows “Martha” also Songs by Bernstein and Gershwin.
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