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Institute for
historical and modern-day Mozart Opera Interpretation
Theoretical preparation/documentation of the musical and staging
performance practices/interpretational possibilities of Mozart operas
as well as the practical usage
Continual involvement with Mozart’s operas within the
Department of Music Theater (organisation-staff-spatial layout)
Musical and theatrical study of scenes and complete works; public
performances yearly
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Full-time students in the Department of Music Theater (master
studies) Postgraduates, doctoral
candidates
course instruction language -German (English, when necessary)
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THEME ORIENTATED MASTER CLASSES OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT PRESENT-DAY OPERA STARS:
Conductors, stage directors, singers, stage designers,
dramaturgies as well as music and theater historians.
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Internally (University Mozarteum Salzburg)
Musicology
Departments of stage design, conducting, orchestra, choir, instrumental
studies (strings and winds), early music
International
Mozarteum Foundation (library, incl. audio and video library)
Salzburg
Festival (Master classes of participating festival artists,
planned student assistantships)
Bavarian
State Opera House in Munich (Master classes, planned student
assistantships)
Institute
for Musicology Paris-Lodron University Salzburg
Institute
for Dramaturgy Vienna University (library)
Institute
for Music Theater Thurnau (archive)
The goal of the Mozart Opera Institute (MOI) is to be involved in many
facets of the cultural events Salzburg, not exclusively through the
elaborate and costly presentation of complete Mozart operas, but also
in the “smaller forms”. The MOI is conceived as an
institution to assist all who want to intensively and actively explore
the operas of Mozart.
The European elements are innate due to the subject matter
„Mozart Operas“ and is further realised and
deepened through the co-operation between the European Mozart cities
and the integration of the artistic and scholastic potentials of the
European Academy of Sciences and Arts: A platform for comprehensive
artistic exchange, meaningful connections amid knowledgeable
resources, discussion about the state of Mozart interpretation. This
approach reaches beyond the artistic performance aspect and will be
extended upon together with the aforementioned institutions in the
coming years.
Crucial for the success of the MOI will be the founding of an
orchestra, one to blend the baroque and pre-classic traditions and
develop a specific sound, especially necessary for the early Mozart
Operas.
The performances of „Schuldigkeit des Ersten
Gebots“ („The Obligation of the First
Commandment“) and „Apollo und Hyazinth“
at the Salzburg Festival in 2006 were received with international
accolade. Also sponsored by the MOI was a tour of
„Così fan tutte”; a celebration of the
evening before of the first performance of „Le nozze di
Figaro” - Figaro’s Bachelor Party - and an array of
concerts and classes juxtaposing the historical roots of Mozart
interpretation with the present-day approaches. A lecture series
entitled “From A as in Apollo to Z as in
Zauberflöte” was initiated in the academic year
2006/07 with guest first-class lecturers from various areas
of opera production, all vital and relevant to the present day
pre-occupation with Mozart operas. This lecture series will be
continued in 2007/08.
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The MOI is the eighth institute from all of Europe to be recognized by
the European
Academy of Sciences and Arts. The MOI receives support from
the Lions Club of Salzburg and surrounding area banks.
Dr. Josef Wallnig
Director of the Department of Music Theater
Director of the Mozart Opera Institute at the University Mozarteum
Salzburg
May 2007
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