State Opera Director Bogdan Roscic is dedicating the coming season to his great predecessor Gustav Mahler, who took office 125 years ago. Accordingly, most of the seven opera premieres should have one or the other reference to Mahler. The first premiere on September 29th is dedicated to Mahler, when the evening “Von der Liebe Tod” is formed from his youthful work, the cantata “Das klagende Lied” and the “Kindertotenlieder”. On December 4th, director Keith Warner celebrates his house debut with Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”. Then, after 50 years, the great “Salome” production by Boleslaw Barlog will be replaced when the 47-year-old Frenchman Cyril Teste reinterprets the Strauss opera on February 2nd.
It continues on March 5 with “Le nozze di Figaro” as Mahler’s most conducted work during his tenure as director, with which Barrie Kosky’s Da Ponte trilogy is continued at the house. The premiere concludes with Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites”, which will be performed on May 21, 2023 by the young Magdalena Fuchsberger from Salzburg. “I consider this work to be suitable for repertoire without restrictions, because the music is so magical”, Roscic justified his choice to put the work back on the repertoire for the first time since 1964.
Roscic’s view of the current season is ambivalent: “I find it much more difficult than 20/21.” After all, you stay in the budget despite the closures, short-term changes and the cancellation of the Opera Ball. Roscic, who has been in office since 2020, is now officially applying in view of the ongoing re-advertisement of his post from 2025.
Source: Nachrichten
