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Highly specified, practical
training and support of young, diplomed opera singers with the goal of
a smooth career start with appropriate stylistic knowledge, ideally
experience in productions, as complete ensembles to be recommended to
chosen managers.
Preparation for competitions with Mozart as a main focus.
Combination of scholastic knowledge and
practical experience within the curriculum in the opera class.
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Fixed Themes: overall view
Mozart’s manuscripts
Field trips to musically relevant places in Salzburg/Vienna/Munich
Baroque gestures/ performance practice on stage
Historic ballroom dance
Coordinated each year to correspond
with the opera repertoire curricula
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Staging
Emphases in Theory and Academic Practice
Stage Performance Practice of the 18th
Century
Musical Dramaturgy of the 18th Century
Present tendencies of stage direction and design
Opera productions of Mozart’s time
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Musical
Emphases in Theory and Academic Practice
Vocal and stylistic development of Bel
canto in regards to the voice types of the time of Mozart
Diction
Performance practice, with emphasis on ornamentation
Recitative
Knowledge and applied usage of first-hand material (facsimile, prints,
stage sketches, Libretti...)
“Questioning” of the material (from original
manuscript to piano score...)
Examining Mozart’s manuscripts
Exploring vocal portraits of well-known Mozart singers
Acquiring printed music written of the most important singers of Mozart
operas
Developing a musical archive of vocal exercises
Developing an archive of vocal treatises
Developing a video archive with recordings and productions (in
collaboration with the Institute for Media Research)
Castrati, voice in general
Knowledge of historical dance (Figaro, Don Giovanni; dance and musical
structures /arias)
Knowledge of historical gestures
Performances at the original performance venue (Aula, Heckentheater,
Steintheater in Salzburg; Krumau; Gotha etc.)
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Worldwide talent search, faculty
master classes, recruiting young singers to Salzburg
International networking of the Institute, also through co-productions,
faculty exchanges, emphasizing the features of courses and productions
Networking associates are primarily Munich, several cities in Italy and
other center specialized in the work of Mozart (based on the role model
of the Mozart cities)
Productions of contemporary operas, repertoire: next to Mozart his most
important contemporaries: Antonio Salieri, Domenica Cimarosa, Bach sons
(especially Johann Christian), Johann Adolf Hasse, Christoph Willibald
Gluck, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Joseph Haydn among others.
The “early Mozart” and the baroque opera, German
musical comedy, three generations of Mozart: Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus,
and Wolfgang Amadeus Jr. (Franz Xaver); Mozart and Italy.
Documentation of the actual work of the Institute.
Univ. Prof. Dr. Josef Wallnig
Director of Mozart-Opera Institute
March 2007
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