Sacred Concert · Dixit Dominus

Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria

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Festival: Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2021

Type: Classical Concert

City: Salzburg, Austria

Starts at: 11:00

Duration:

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Festival

Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2021

Programme

Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in D major, Op.6 no.1

George Frideric Handel: Donna, che in ciel, HWV 233

George Frideric Handel: Dixit Dominus in G minor, HWV 232

Domenico Mazzocchi: Concilio de’ Farisei (c1630)

Overview

"There are so many churches in Rome, each with its own character, the queen, the diva, the mouse, the coquette, the ostentatious, the ethereal, the consumptive, the simple and the baroque beauty that the faithful have to spread out with them on weekdays all come into their own. [...] When Rome had only a tenth of its current residents, but just as many churches, all the rows must have filled up, standing then, not sitting, almost a thousand at every corner of the center who remembered their God not only on Sundays."

NAVID KERMANI

He was a style icon not only for the Salzburg cathedral organist Georg Muffat following the latter’s visit to Rome in 1681: at the beginning of the 18th century, the violin virtuoso and composer Arcangelo Corelli, who had been active in Rome from around 1675, created a wholly new genre of instrumental music with his Concerti grossi and their dialogue between the group of soloists and large ensemble. His Opus 6 collection published in 1712 had a style-defining and seminal influence far beyond the borders of Italy. Shortly before his death Corelli met a young Saxon composer who had come to Rome looking for new sources of artistic inspiration: George Frideric Handel. With sketches for his first Italian composition (probably begun in Venice) of the psalm Dixit Dominus in his luggage, Handel arrived in the Holy City around the beginning of 1707. His cantata Donna, che in ciel was probably written as a commission from the Roman Senate ‘to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Rome from the earthquake on Candlemas Day’ in February 1708. This large, almost operatically conceived work attests to Handel’s masterly powers of musical evocation. More than 70 years previously Domenico Mazzocchi had enriched oratorio performances in Rome with his Sacrae concertationes — as also with Concilio de’ Farisei, the last of these 19 settings of biblical texts.

Venue Info

Felsenreitschule - Salzburg
Hofstallgasse 1

The Felsenreitschule (literally "rock riding school") is a theatre in Salzburg, Austria and a venue of the Salzburg Festival.

History

A first Baroque theatre was erected in 1693–94 at the behest of the Salzburg prince-archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun, according to plans probably designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Built in the former Mönchsberg quarry for conglomerate rock used in the new Salzburg Cathedral construction, it was located next to the archiepiscopal stables (at the site of the present Großes Festspielhaus) and used as a summer riding school and for animal hunts. The audience was seated in 96 arcades carved into the Mönchsberg rock on three floors. After the secularisation of the prince-archbishopric, the premises were used by the cavalry of the Austrian Imperial-Royal Army as well as by Bundesheer forces after World War I.

From 1926, the Felsenreitschule was used as an open-air theatre for performances of the Salzburg Festival. With the auditorium reversed, the former audience arcades now served as a natural stage setting. The first production was Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, directed by Max Reinhardt. In 1933, Clemens Holzmeister designed for Max Reinhardt the "Faust Town", a multiple-stage setting for Reinhardt's legendary production of Goethe's Faust.

In 1948 Herbert von Karajan first used the Felsenreitschule as an opera stage, for performances of Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. This was followed in 1949 by the premiere of Carl Orff's setting of the ancient tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, translated into German by Friedrich Hölderlin, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay. Between 1968 and 1970, the Felsenreitschule was again remodeled according to plans by Clemens Holzmeister and inaugurated with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio under the baton of Karl Böhm.

Architecture

The stage has a width of 40 metres (130 ft), and 4 metres (13 ft) understage. Also renovated was the cantilevered grandstand with the underlying scene dock. A light-tight, rain tarp to dampen the noise and protect the stage was also added. This roof can be opened. The theater holds 1412 seats and 25 standing places.

Between the summers of 2010 and 2011 festival, the roof was renewed: The new design added 700 square metres (7,500 sq ft) of floor space for equipment and rehearsal rooms. The new pitched roof consists of three mobile segment surfaces and is on five telescopic arms and can be extended and retracted in six minutes. Suspension points on telescopic supports for stage equipment (hoists), improved sound and heat insulation, and two lighting bridges optimize the action on stage. The Felsenreitschule shares its foyer with the Kleines Festspielhaus (House for Mozart).

In popular culture
The Felsenreitschule was used as a location for the 1965 film version of The Sound of Music. It appears as the site of the Salzburg music festival from which the von Trapp family disappear.

Important Info

Festival: Salzburg Festival Whitsun 2021

Type: Classical Concert

City: Salzburg, Austria

Starts at: 11:00

Duration:

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