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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
MOZARTJAHR 2006
MOZARTJAHR 2006 engl.
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Mozart Year 2006
The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg opens Mozart Year 2006 with opera, concerts and museum projects
Nikolaus Harnoncourt will be artist in residence; American stage director, designer and artist Robert Wilson is to re-design some of the exhibition area in Mozart’s Birthplace; there’ll be a new production of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera staged by the German film director Doris Dörrie, a magnificent celebration for Mozart’s 250th birthday and several concerts with leading international musicians. The International Mozarteum Foundation also has plans for a festival of contemporary music spread over the entire Mozart Year.
In Mozart Year 2006 Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt will be the International Mozarteum Foundation’s artist in residence in Salzburg. The maestro has been associated with the Foundation for 25 years and in Mozart Year 2006 there’ll be chances to hear him not only as a conductor of concerts but also in interviews, formal and not-so-formal conversations and in workshops. The International Mozarteum Foundation is planning a special project for Mozart’s Birthplace: American stage director, designer and artist Robert Wilson is to devise an installation in Mozart’s Birthplace. This can be viewed from 5 December 2005 in the Getreidegasse in Salzburg. In 2006 the well-known German film director Doris Dörrie makes her debut at the Mozart Week when she stages Mozart’s opera La finta giardiniera K. 196. This is a co-production between the International Mozarteum Foundation, the Salzburg Festival and the Salzburg Landestheater.
The International Mozarteum Foundation opens Mozart Year on Wolfgang Amadé’s 250th birthday on 27 January 2006 at the hour of his birth in the evening with a grand festive concert that will also be one of the unique musical highlights of the 51st Mozart Week: Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic together with soloists Thomas Hampson (baritone), Renée Fleming (soprano), Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin) and Yuri Bashmet (viola) and with the Wiener Singverein. On the morning of 27 January 2006 the Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer will officially open the Mozart anniversary year in a ceremony in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum. During this ceremony the Vienna Philharmonic will be conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
The main focus of the concert programmes during the Mozart Week 2006 is on Mozart’s early works, many of which he composed during his first journeys throughout the whole of Europe. Concerts will be conducted by Daniel Barenboim, Ivor Bolton, Dennis Russell Davies, Adam Fischer, Valery Gergiev, Reinhard Goebel, Daniel Harding, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christopher Hogwood, Leonidas Kavakos, Riccardo Muti, Sir Roger Norrington, András Schiff, Hubert Soudant and Mark Wigglesworth.
Among the singers who can be heard are John Mark Ainsley, Veronica Cangemi, Ruxandra Donose, Renée Fleming, Juan Diego Flórez, Véronique Gens, Susan Gritton, John Graham Hall, Thomas Hampson, Vesselina Kasarova, Angelika Kirchschlager, Thomas Quasthoff, Alexandra Reinprecht, Michael Schade and Markus Werba.
The following soloists will be performing during the Mozart Week 2006: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes, Saleem Abboud Ashkar, Emmanuel Ax, Yuri Bashmet, Gianluca Cascioli, Helmut Deutsch, Ariane Haering, Erich Höbarth, Gidon Kremer, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Robert Levin, Sabine Meyer, Christoph Richter, András Schiff, Heinrich Schiff, Benjamin Schmid, Mitsuko Uchida, Stefan Vladar, Lars Vogt, Jörg Widmann, Shai Wosner.
Concerts will be given by the Camerata Salzburg, the Cappella Andrea Barca, the Haydn Philharmonie Eisenstadt, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Symphony Orchestra of the Mozarteum University, the Vienna Philharmonic and chamber music will be performed by the Beaux Arts Trio, the Emerson String Quartet, the Hagen Quartet and the Juilliard String Quartet.
Further press information can be obtained from:
Mirjam Nellmann
Head of Press and Public Relations
Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum
Schwarzstrasse 26
A 5020 Salzburg
Austria
Tel: 0043 662 8894025
Mail: nellmann@mozarteum.at
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