Die Jahreszeiten - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Die Jahreszeiten

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17.05.2022 , Tuesday

19:30 

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Staatsoper, Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna

A walk through the year as a metaphor for life! With »Die Jahreszeiten« the very old Joseph Haydn composed a great secular oratorio about the integration of humans in the cycle of nature - music full of colors, full of glamor and great rhetorical force, like a reviewer on May 2, 1801 after the Vienna premiere in the Leipziger Allgemeine musischen Zeitung remarked: “Sometimes the melody of the song is delighted, sometimes the tremendous intervention of all instruments is shaken like a forest river that breaks through all dams; Now the simple, artless expression delights, now one admires the lavish exuberance in quick and bright chords. From the beginning to the end, the mind is involuntarily torn from the most touching to the most terrible, from the most naive to the most artificial, from the most beautiful to the most sublime.

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musical direction
Giovanni Antonini
composer
Joseph Haydn
text
Gottfried van Swieten based on James Thomson's "The Seasons"
choreography
Martin Schläpfer
Stage and costumes
Mylla Ek
light
Thomas Diek
Choir rehearsal
Thomas Lang
Hanne (soprano)
Slávka Zámečníková
Lukas (tenor)
Josh Lovell
Simon (bass)
Martin Häßler

A walk through the year as a metaphor for life! With »Die Jahreszeiten« the very old Joseph Haydn composed a great secular oratorio about the integration of humans in the cycle of nature - music full of colors, full of glamor and great rhetorical force, like a reviewer on May 2, 1801 after the Vienna premiere in the Leipziger Allgemeine musischen Zeitung remarked: “Sometimes the melody of the song is delighted, sometimes the tremendous intervention of all instruments is shaken like a forest river that breaks through all dams; Now the simple, artless expression delights, now one admires the lavish exuberance in quick and bright chords. From the beginning to the end, the mind is involuntarily torn from the most touching to the most terrible, from the most naive to the most artificial, from the most beautiful to the most sublime. «Scenes from the full life stand next to gripping musical descriptions of nature, catchy melodies next to thoughtful reflections on life and its transience, great ones Oratorio scenes in addition to popular singspiel full of wit, but also crude humor.

For the director of the Vienna State Ballet Martin Schläpfer, the idea of ​​being inspired by Haydn's “The Seasons” for a full-length dance piece goes back to the early 1990s, when he was still at the beginning of his career as a choreographer. More than 25 years later, he is now bringing them to the stage - with the Vienna State Ballet, soloists from the singer ensemble, the choir and orchestra of the Vienna State Opera in a production for whose musical direction Giovanni Antonini could be won. The maestro, who comes from Milan, is a founding member and director of the baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico and first guest conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Basel Chamber Orchestra. On the occasion of Joseph Haydn's 300th birthday, as director of the “Haydn 2032” project, he will deal intensively with the work of the Viennese composer as part of a complete recording of all symphonies.

The Swedish artist Mylla Ek assists Martin Schläpfer with the design of the stage and costumes. From the shell of a sea snail, she has abstracted a stage space that changes according to the seasons, can be narrow, cold and dark or large, warm and light - a place where Martin Schläpfer unfolds his dance images for Haydn's composition: Images of People lifted up in their microcosm, but also exposed in the vastness of the universe.

Subject to changes.