Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2023
Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2023
Bayreuth Baroque will present you two staged opera productions, concerts and much more at the Margravial Opera House, the Eremitage, Colmdorf Palace and two Margravial churches from 7 to 17 September 2023. Artistic Director Max Emanuel Cencic and Managing Director Dr Clemens Lukas have presented the program to the public on 20 January.
The programme for the 2023 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival has now been announced and the festival, which takes place from 7 to 17 September 2023 will, for the first time, have two staged operas. There will be a new production of Handel's Flavio, Re de' Longobardi, directed by Max Emanuel Cencic with Julia Lezhneva, Max Emanuel Cencic, Yuriy Mynenko, Sonja Runje, Rémy Brès-Feuillet and Sreten Manojlovic. Benjamin Bayl will direct from the harpsichord with Concerto Köln, the resident orchestra at the festival. Flavio dates from 1723 and was the composers fourth full-length opera for the Royal Academy of Music. Unusually concise for the period, the opera is an interesting mix of tragedy and comedy.
Alongside this will be a production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, originally seen at the Athens Megaron in 2017 as part of the celebrations for the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth. The production combines Monteverdi with new music, transcriptions and live electronics by Panos Iliopoulos, all a conception of music director Markellos Chryssicos. Directed by Thanos Papakonstantinou, the production features Rolando Villazón as Orfeo.
Recitals include counter-tenor Valer Sabadus in arias by Carl Heinrich Graun with {oh!} Orkiestra, soprano Véronique Gens in Passion with Ensemble Les Surprises with music by Lully, Henry Desmarest, André Cardinal Destouches, Pascal Collasse and François Rebel, counter-tenor Bruno de Sá explores arias from the Neapolitan school with nuovo barocco and tenor Daniel Behle presents arias from the second half of the 18th century that have remained unheard since the time of their composition.
About the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
In September 2020 the International Festival of Opera Seria Bayreuth Baroque debuted in the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth. The theatre of Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, which opened in 1748, was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in 2012 and reopened in 2018 after a renovation. The performance of baroque opera serias at the original location awakens one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world from a museum sleep and allows you to experience its epoch in a sensual way.
Bayreuth Baroque takes place in September. Artistic Director is Max Emanuel Cencic, countertenor, director and producer. Creative Producer is Georg Lang, Executive Director is Dr. Clemens Lukas.
Each year the Bayreuth Baroque Festival offers a diverse program with renowned international artists and emerging talents. Each year a major new opera production is presented exclusively.
You can discover Baroque musical treasures in the most emblematic places of this period, which the city of Bayreuth abounds in. A real opening to the Baroque heaven.
The festival is an opportunity to discover the emblematic places of Bayreuth, while listening to beautiful baroque music.
Festival venues:
The Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - is a landmark of Baroque theatrical culture.
The Hermitage Orangery - a historic park created in 1715 with water features and buildings that form a rococo jewel.
Stadtkirche Bayreuth – The Stadtkirche of Bayreuth is a three-aisled Protestant Basilica in late Gothic style and the largest church in the city.
Ordenskirche St. Georgen Bayreuth – The Ordenskirche St. Georgen, also called Sophienkirche, is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the St. Georgen district of Bayreuth.
Schlosskirche Bayreuth – The Schlosskirche Bayreuth, located in the complex of buildings of the former Bayreuth Castle, is a hall church in the Bayreuth Rococo style.
