Festspielhaus St. Pölten
The Festspielhaus St. Pölten is an Austrian Festspielhaus in St. Pölten government district.
The Festspielhaus leads about 70 events organized by each season and has about 70,000 visitors a year. A total of twelve Subscription cycles are used by nearly 4,000 subscribers. With the 2013/2014 season, the Viennese Brigitte Fürle took over as artistic director of the festival theater.
Positioning
The Festspielhaus St. Pölten is one of the most prominent theater buildings of contemporary architecture in Austria and has evolved in its 16 - year anniversary as a leading venue with one of the biggest stages for dance and music in the dialogue between tradition and modernity. As seasonal playing multi-genre house, the Festspielhaus St. Pölten presented dance productions of contemporary ballet to the international creation, concerts ranging from classical to jazz and World, Youth formats, and since the season of 2013, again chamber music. The Schedule includes events consisting of guest performances, co-productions and artist residencies. Since its opening in 1997, the Festspielhaus St. Pölten is the permanent residence of the Musicians' Orchestra of Lower Austria, which is one of the essential pillars of the program at the Festspielhaus with his concert cycle. The classical music program is complemented by international orchestra concerts.
In the field of cultural mediation, the Festspielhaus St. Pölten for many years taken a leading role. With the aim to establish the Festspielhaus as open space for creative exchange, this participatory field is increasingly considered in the programmatic and planning.
The international program of dance productions, concerts, musical theater and cultural mediation activities to keep the opening and dialogue of the house for and with established and new audiences, for a deep roots in the region as well as for a strong artistic positioning in the international cultural scene. The Festspielhaus St. Pölten is neither house nor Festival repertoire, but a venue for the new style, with time and space for art, a pioneering model for continuous and socially responsible culture work.
History
As the Festspielhaus St. Pölten was inaugurated with a concert by the Musicians' Orchestra Lower Austria on 1 March 1997, this marked a milestone for the cultural life in Lower Austria. With the construction and opening of this unique in the whole of Austria house is a striking sign was placed within the local cultural landscape - in many ways: not only its innovative architecture, even the project itself, at the St. Pölten to create a large-sized venue new and from then on throughout the year to record top-class - so this provide the corresponding subsidies - comes from today's perspective, a small revolution equal and made a major contribution to award the then young Lower Austrian capital a strong profile.
Architecture
The building, designed by Austrian architect Klaus Kada Festspielhaus has a total of four rooms, which are suitable due to their different spatial dimensions for cultural events of various magnitude. In addition to orchestra concerts and dance productions also traditional events, concerts of light music and opera performances are presented.
The Great Hall of the House has in the auditorium for a maximum of 1,063 seats, 70 standing places and 4 wheelchair spaces. The equipment allows the stage music and dance performances. For orchestra concerts own orchestra shell was manufactured. Due to low mechanical changes in the Great Hall offers good conditions for dance as well as due to its acoustics as well for concerts and musical theater. The possible changes relating to ceilings, walls and proscenium arch. The Bandshell is an essential element of acoustics. The Iron Curtain that separates the audience from the stage area, is almost 20 meters wide and a height of 10.5 meters, the largest visual arts work of the country represents the entire structure weighs 14.5 tons. It was designed by the artist Eva Schlegel.
In addition to the Great Hall, there is the Small Hall, which is used for the performance of chamber music events. In addition, available for intimate events " rehearsal stage 1" and " rehearsal stage 2 " is available. The spacious foyer and the comfort of a parking garage with direct entrance to the festival house distinguished the successful architecture as well as the choice of elegant materials for the Festspielhaus.
Guest performances and appearances
The Festspielhaus is the residence of Musicians Orchestra Lower Austria, each season about 15 concerts and some special projects - such as under the direction of Marc Piollet, Julia Jones, Guido Mancusi, Jun Märkl, Michail Jurowski, Christian Muthspiel, Ari Rasilainen, Yutaka Sado or Thomas Zehetmair and internationally renowned soloists such as Rudolf Buchbinder, Elisabeth Van Keulen, Renaud Capuçon, Murat Coskun, Antoni Dontschew, Bernarda Fink, Clemens Hagen, Marc- André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Elisabeth Kulman, Otto Lechner, Daniel Müller- Schott, Wolfgang puschnig, Lise de la Salle Benjamin Schmid and Elisabeth Schwarz - playing in the house. Since September 2009, Andrés Orozco- Estrada chief conductor of the orchestra. As part of the string Exchange, an exchange of the Lower Austrian and South African strings in cooperation with the Cape was initiated Festival. This was continued in the 2011/2012 season in a joint concert with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Lower Austria in the framework of the youth club and is considered a prime example of the focus of cultural mediation at this theater.
In the field of dance were and are, inter alia, several productions of the Sadler's Wells Theatre and the guest choreographer and dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Angelin Preljocaj, Alain Platel, Osamu Tezuka, Sylvie Guillem, Akram Khan and Wayne McGregor. Furthermore, choreography by Mats Ek and Jiří Kylián were seen. In the field of classical music, among other things, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Bolshoi orchestra are guests; the underground music covers in the current season, the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, Bauchklang, Salif Keita, Ana Moura, China Moses and Goran Bregovic.
2006, the first Austrian revival of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Wiener Rheinnixen ( Vienna Court Opera in 1864 ) was played in this house.
Artistic Director
- 2009-2013 Joachim Schloemer
- Since 2013 Brigitte Fürle