Heidenheim Opera Festival 2023
Heidenheim Opera Festival 2023
The 2023 Opera Festival was planned and prepared long before the last festival summer. No fewer than four music theater works will be performed, plus six major concerts and numerous smaller events. The OH! 2023 with the motto "Heroines" will take place from June 15th to July 30th.
Opera in the Knights' Hall: On 7.7. Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlo" based on Friedrich Schiller's drama "Don Carlos" premieres. Further performances on July 9th, 14th, 15th, 21st and 28th.
Verdi series: Giuseppe Verdi's seventh opera "Giovanna D'Arco", also based on Friedrich Schiller (namely the drama "The Maid of Orleans") will be performed on July 20th and 22nd. played
Extras: Among the numerous extra events are the popular formats JAZZFRÜHSTÜCKE, SCHLOSSBERGTAFEL, OH! AT THE SOURCE and many others.
About the Heidenheim Opera Festival
The Heidenheim Opera Festival (founded in 1964) is a major summer classical festival with its annual program of opera , concerts and many extras . The romantic Knights' Hall at Hellenstein Castle, one of "the most beautiful open-air stages in Europe" (Die Welt). An acoustically excellent Festspielhaus CCH . Opera and symphony unplugged and in an intimate chamber music setting. " World class" (opera glass) in the natural landscape of the eastern Swabian Jura The OH! is a festival of fascinating contrasts.
Since August 2009 the conductor has been Marcus Bosch artistic director of the Heidenheim Opera Festival. Within a short time, Bosch took the festival of his childhood town to national and international renown. The founding of the Cappella Aquileia - Orchestra of the OH! in 2011, the invitation of internationally renowned singers and directors, the collaboration with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Czech Philharmonic Choir in Brno, live recordings and radio broadcasts (SWR, DLF Kultur), guest performances in Switzerland, France and Italy CD releases (cpo, Coviello Classics), the master concerts "Festspiele over the year" - the OH! are today as diverse as they are unmistakably profiled. The festival combines the appeal of a special event with an uncompromising desire for artistic quality.
And with a passion for discovery . The series with the early operas of Giuseppe Verdi, which started in 2016, fascinates experts and audiences alike. The fresh and unbiased view of the hand-picked Cappella Aquileia on the orchestral music of the 19th century opens up new approaches to the great repertoire. The Beethoven series "Music for the Theater" by the OH! celebrates great success.
Today the OH! supported on a broad basis by the festival city of Heidenheim, by cosmopolitan Swabian companies such as Voith GmbH & Co.KGaA, Paul Hartmann AG, Carl Zeiss AG or Stadtwerke Heidenheim, as well as by a broad civic commitment that is second to none. And from a great tradition .
As early as the Middle Ages, Minnesang was verifiably cultivated at the Staufer castle, Schloss Hellenstein. In 1964, the conductor Helmut Weigel laid the modern foundation for the Heidenheim Opera Festival with a first castle serenade. After years of concerts and operas, in 1977 visitors experienced a major opera production for the first time with Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio".
Marco Maria Canonica - artistic director of the festival from 1985 - dedicated the growing festival entirely to opera: exclusively in-house productions, multi-year cycles with operas by Verdi or Mozart or the founding of the Junge Oper Heidenheim with an annually produced opera for children and families - the Heidenheim Opera Festival achieved high popularity and the nationwide charisma of a "hidden champion". Today, Heidenheim is considered the "Glyndebourne of Germany" (...) and enjoys a high reputation among international festival destinations.