Bavarian State Opera

The Bavarian State Opera in Munich is one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, and can look back on an impressive history and tradition. Europe acclaimed premieres took place back in 1700.

History

Munich's first opera house was built in 1657 on Salvatorplatz and can thus be considered as the oldest in the German-speaking countries (except for the Vienna Court Opera, also goes back to the beginning of the 17th century ). 1751 was the theater in the residence of the main venue, in which the Court had to play mostly Italian operas - 1781 Mozart's Idomeneo premiered. A big Royal Court and National Theatre was built from 1810 to 1817. It had to be rebuilt twice: once after a major fire in 1823-25 ​​and after the Second World War 1958-63.

Today offers the Munich State Opera - together with the Bavarian State Ballet - a dense repertoire operation with nearly 350 opera and ballet performances a year. Performances are held at the National Theatre at the Max -Joseph-Platz, in the Prince Regent Theatre or Old Residence Theatre ( Cuvilliés Theatre ) instead. In June 2010, for the first time found conceptions held in the temporary, created for the Opera Festival 2010 Pavillon 21 MINI Opera Space. The Opera House will be recorded by the Bavarian State Orchestra.

Since 1875 also the Munich Opera Festival will be held, one of the world 's most important music festivals.

The detailed history and architecture of the house are described in the article National Theatre in Munich.

Directors

Music directors

Unless otherwise indicated below, the title of the musical director of the court or State Opera music director since 1836.

Premieres

A publication of the Bavarian State Opera recorded in the period 1818-2001 106 opera premieres. Accordingly, the following list is not intended to be exhaustive.

  • October 2, 1753, Catone in Utica by Giovanni Ferrandini and Pietro Metastasio ( Residence Theater )
  • January 13, 1775, La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Petrosellini (?) ( Residence Theater )
  • January 29, 1781, Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giambattista Varesco ( Residence Theater )
  • February 1, 1782, Semiramide by Antonio Salieri and Pietro Metastasio ( Residence Theater )
  • January 27, 1807, Iphigenia in Aulis by Franz Danzi and Karl Reger ( Residence Theater )
  • June 4, 1811, Abu Hassan by Carl Maria von Weber and Franz Carl Hiemer ( Residence Theater )
  • December 23, 1812, Jephthah's vow of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Aloys Schreiber ( Residence Theater )
  • November 9, 1817, Teolinde by Giacomo Meyerbeer ( Residence Theater )
  • October 7, 1849, Benvenuto Cellini by Franz Lachner, Henri -Auguste Barbier and Léon de Wailly ( German from: ? )
  • June 10, 1865, Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
  • June 21, 1868, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner
  • September 22, 1869, Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner
  • June 26, 1870, Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
  • June 29, 1888, Die Feen by Richard Wagner
  • January 23, 1897, Royal Children ( Melodramfassung ) by Engelbert Humperdinck and Elsa Bernstein
  • October 10, 1897, Sarema of Alexander von Zemlinsky, Adolf von Zemlinszky and Arnold Schoenberg
  • January 22, 1899, Bearskin, by Siegfried Wagner
  • November 27, 1903, Le donne curiose by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Luigi Sugana ( German by Hermann Teibler ) ( Residence Theater )
  • March 19, 1906, I quattro Rusteghi ( The Four Ruffians ) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Giuseppe Pizzolato ( German by Hermann Teibler )
  • December 11, 1906, the Christ Elflein of Hans Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach
  • December 4, 1909, Il segreto di Susanna ( Susanna's secret ) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Enrico Golisciani ( German by Max Kalbeck )
  • March 28, 1916, The Ring of Polycrates of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Leo field and Julius Korngold and; Violanta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Korngold
  • June 12, 1917, Palestrina by Hans Pfitzner ( Prince Regent Theatre)
  • November 30, 1920, The Birds by Walter Braunfels ( by Aristophanes )
  • November 15, 1924, Don Gil of the green pants by Walter Braunfels ( by Tirso de Molina )
  • November 12, 1931, The Heart of Hans Pfitzner and Hans Mahner -Mons
  • February 5, 1939, The Moon by Carl Orff
  • March 29, 1956, Don Juan de Manara by Henri Tomasi ( Prince Regent Theatre)
  • August 11, 1957, The Harmony of the World by Paul Hindemith ( Prince Regent Theatre)
  • November 27, 1963, Betrothal in San Domingo by Werner Egk ( after Heinrich von Kleist )
  • August 1, 1972, Sim Tjong of Yun I- sang and Harald Kunz
  • July 9, 1978, Lear by Aribert Reimann and Claus H. Henneberg
  • May 10, 1981, Lou Salomé by Giuseppe Sinopoli and Karl Dietrich Gräwe
  • 22 July 1985 Le Roi Bérenger ( King Berenger I. ) by Heinrich Suter champion ( after Eugène Ionesco )
  • 8 November 1985, Night by Lorenzo Ferrero and Peter Wehran (after Novalis )
  • January 25, 1986, by Volker David Kirchner Belshazar and Harald Weirich
  • July 7, 1986, Troades Aribert Reimann and Gerd Albrecht (after Euripides and Franz Werfel )
  • July 6, 1991, Ubu Rex by Krzysztof Penderecki ( Alfred Jarry )
  • 1 July 1996 Slaughterhouse 5 by Hans- Jürgen von Bose ( by Kurt Vonnegut )
  • January 11, 1997, Venus and Adonis by Hans Werner Henze and Hans -Ulrich Treichel
  • May 24, 1998, Twelfth Night by Manfred Trojahn and Claus H. Henneberg
  • 28 June 2000 KANON for a closed society by Ruedi houses man ( Cuvilliéstheater )
  • October 30, 2000, House of Bernarda Alba by Aribert Reimann ( by Federico García Lorca)
  • 27 June 2002 K.Projekt 12/14 by Hans- Jürgen von Bose (after Franz Kafka ) ( Cuvilliéstheater )
  • July 17, 2003, The Face in the Mirror by Jörg Widmann and Roland Schimmelpfennig ( Cuvilliéstheater )
  • 27 October 2006 The enclosure of Wolfgang Rihm and Botho Strauss
  • June 30, 2007, Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin and David Henry Hwang
  • February 22, 2010, The Tragedy of the Devil by Peter Eötvös and Albert Easter Maier
  • October 27, 2012, Babylon by Jörg Widmann and Peter Sloterdijk

Members of the ensemble of the past

  • Liselotte Fölser
  • Gottlob Frick
  • Reri Grist
  • Ferry Gruber
  • Ingeborg Hallstein
  • Sabine Hass
  • Richard Holm
  • Hans Hopf
  • Hans Hotter
  • Maria Ivogün
  • Karl Gatermann the Younger
  • Helena Jungwirth
  • Franz Klarwein
  • Josef Knapp
  • Karl Christian Kohn
  • Benno Kusche
  • Erika Köth
  • Margot Leander
  • Josef Metternich
  • Georgine of Milinkovic
  • Martha Mödl

References and Notes

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