Also: “Magical Gardens” series in Courances
Vienna (OTS) – Director Dominique Meyer says goodbye to the Vienna State Opera at the end of June and moves on to La Scala in Milan. The “matinee” on Sunday, June 28, 2020, looks back with him on his ten-year term and then congratulates the composer Kurt Schwertsik on his 85th birthday with a short portrait. Before that, at 9.05 a.m., an excursion to the park of Courances in France is on the “matinee” program in “Magical Gardens”. “The Culture Week” (10.45 a.m.) closes the ORF culture morning presented by Clarissa Stadler.
“Magical Gardens – Courances” (9.05 a.m.)
In the park of Courances, south of Paris, whose name means “river”, the water is omnipresent – for example in the numerous ditches, canals and fountains. In addition, the water structures the entire landscape. The trees are the other sight of Courances. They give the park its very own, romantic character. The site extends over 75 hectares of gardens and 500 hectares of arable land. While many gardens remain attached to their earlier image, the Courances estate is lively, inhabited, facing the modern world and constantly renewed. Emmanuel Descombes designed the edition of the “Magical Gardens” series.
“Looking back with love – Dominique Meyer at the Vienna State Opera” (9.30 a.m.)
He would have imagined his brilliant last season differently: after ten years at the helm of the Vienna State Opera, director Dominique Meyer will switch to the famous La Scala in Milan next season. After a successful Viennese decade, his ballet director Manuel Legris also moved his center of life and work to Milan. Dominique Meyer leaves his successor Bogdan Roščić a well-ordered, financially very successful house. In his last days in Vienna, he and ORF presenter Teresa Vogl look back on successes, stage wins, but also on defeats and exceptional situations in ten eventful years as opera director. Many excerpts from, among others, overall ORF recordings, but also from various own streams of the State Opera underpin important and impressive opera and ballet productions of the past seasons. The documentation was designed by Thomas Bogensberger.
“Divertimento Macchiato: The Composer Kurt Schwertsik” (10.30 a.m.)
Graceful, beautiful, elegant, humorous, ironic or exciting are attributes that apply to the musical work of the Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik, who will celebrate his 85th birthday on June 25th. Kurt Schwertsik is convinced that life cannot be mastered with seriousness. Which does not mean at all that he would not take his music seriously, on the contrary: he always wants to understand, understand how the pieces of his famous colleagues are structured in order to gain insights from them for his own art. He wants to write music that people like to listen to. Like many of his contemporaries, Kurt Schwertsik dealt with serial composition technology, but soon turned his back on it, primarily to experiment with new forms of tonality. In addition to solo concerts and numerous song cycles, his musical oeuvre also includes monumental works such as operas and an orchestral cycle. The short portrait for her 85th birthday was designed by Barbara Pichler-Hausegger.
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