Munich Biennale

The Munich Biennale is a music festival which is held in two an annual basis in Munich. The Opera Festival was founded in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze to list new operas by young composers. The full title is " Munich Biennale for New Music Theater ".

History

Hans Werner Henze recalls the beginning of the festival: "The whole story started with a request from the ( Munich) cultural speakers, if I wanted to make my thoughts on the design of creating some kind Munich urban music festival. I suggested some time ago to set up something that has been missing, and what is there else in any place of the world and yet was an urgent necessity: namely, a place to implement at the theater composers interested in the young generation their ideas into reality could. " Thus arose the Munich Biennale.

Henze led the first four festivals, from 1988 to 1994, and established a procedure which was followed by the later festivals substantially. The world premieres of operas are supplemented by introductions and additional concerts with works by the composer to make the audience with their performances and their music familiar.

Artistic Director since 1996, Peter Ruzicka. The Festival in 1996, he led, together with Henze. He expanded the spectrum, in particular about multimedia. Under his leadership, less textbezogenene works have been listed as under Henze.

For the festival in 2012 there will be a collaboration with the Munich Adult Education in the form of seminars and workshops in order to enhance the teaching work and open doors lay through educational access to new music. From 2016 the two composers Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris assume the artistic direction of the Munich Biennale in succession to Peter Ruzicka.

The operas

Importance

The Munich Biennale were many composers of early an opportunity to present their work, the muses now recognized as an opera composers such as Hans- Jürgen von Bose, Violeta Dinescu, Detlev Glanert, Adriana Hölszky, Jens Joneleit, Toshio Hosokawa, Gerd Kühr and Mark-Anthony Turnage, with an emphasis on international exchange.