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The International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition is one of the most renowned and biggest singers' competitions world-wide, offering young talents an opportunity to make contact with people who can help them embark on a future international career. An international jury composed of opera managers and agents as well as numerous media representatives make the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition a veritable "Wall Street of Voices".
Quels sons! Quelle vive lumière!*
What lovely sounds! What brilliant light!
Wiener Kammeroper – Vienna’s premier address for the select, the exquisite, the special. Rarities and Austrian premières of baroque operas, opera buffa, chamber musicals and contemporary music theatre have been characteristic of the unique and inimitable concept of the opera house. This season will see an extension of the programme by yet another programme focus: “Unerhört Neu Gehört” (“Unheard Heard Again”) seeks to bring back great masterpieces which would deserve to be part of standard repertory or have never been played by a small ensemble. However, Wiener Kammeroper also stands for modern staging and fresh young voices – after all, it is a platform and stepping stone for the “stars of tomorrow”. And last but not least, Wiener Kammeroper is also home to the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, which turns Vienna’s Fleischmarkt into a veritable “Wall Street of Voices” every summer.
27th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition 2008
The International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition is one of the most renowned and biggest singers' competitions world-wide, offering young talents an opportunity to make contact with people who can help them embark on a future international career. An international jury composed of opera managers and agents as well as numerous media representatives make the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition a veritable "Wall Street of Voices".
About 3000 young singers from all over the world took part in the qualifying rounds of the Competition 2007 in nearly 50 cities all over the world. 159 of them qualified for the final rounds in Vienna (68 sopranos, 24 mezzo-sopranos, 2 counter-tenors, 19 tenors, 30 baritones, 8 bass-baritones, 8 basses).
History
Wiener Kammeroper was founded by Hans Gabor (1924–1994), a conductor, who had come to Vienna from Hungary after the Second World War. As early as in 1948 he initiated the "Vienna Opera Studio" - a company without a theatre of its own. The new name of the company, "Wiener Kammeroper" (Vienna Chamber Opera), reminiscent of chamber music and society plays in an intimate setting, was first used officially in 1953.
Initially the company played in the suburbs of Vienna, specially for the “Arbeiterkammer” in Vienna, at Mozart Hall of Vienna's "Konzerthaus" concert hall for young audiences under the patronage of the "Theater der Jugend" and during the summer months at the rococo Schönbrunn Palace Theatre. Since the early years, works by contemporary composers, such as Boris Blacher's "The Deluge" (1956), have been a mainstay of the repertory along with opera buffa and classic Viennese operetta, and many a rarity was discovered, e.g. Alessandro Scarlatti's "Triumph of Honour" (1956).
The dream of a permanent home came true. The first one-year subsidy to Wiener Kammeroper granted by the Ministry of Education and the City of Vienna was the pre-requisite for funding its own theatre. The right place was found soon: located in the heart of the city, at the address Fleischmarkt 24, a former dance hall, which had also been used for theatre performances earlier, was adapted to fulfil the requirements of an operatic stage. The new theatre was inaugurated with a performance of the one-act operas "The Marriage" by Martinu, "The Gambler" ("Il marito giocatore") by Orlandini and Monteverdi's "Ariadne's Lament" as adapted by Carl Orff.
Till today, numerous original performances and Austrian premières have remained a trademark of the Wiener Kammeroper repertory. One among many artistic highlights of the past was George Tabori's legendary 1986 production of "I pagliacci" by Leoncavallo; Wiener Kammeroper was invited to present the production at the "Berlin Theatertreffen" festival a year later.
In the early 1980ies, Hans Gabor retired from conducting, exclusively acting as the artistic director and manager of his theatre – not to forget the International Belvedere Singing Competition, which he founded in 1982. Today, the competition is the largest "singers' exchange" in the world, a veritable "Wall Street of Voices".
The series "Studio K" (1983) seeks to offer a platform to contemporary composers. Chamber operas by Tom Johnson, Peter Maxwell Davies, Luciano Chailly, Philip Glass or Hans Werner Henze saw their premières in Vienna. Again, George Tabori contributed an exemplary production which also met with critical acclaim abroad. To address a young audience, classics such as "La Bohème" or "Carmen" were translated in the musical language of rock music.
In the summer of 1992 Wiener Kammeroper began producing open-air performances of Mozart operas at the Roman Ruin in the palace gardens of Schönbrunn with the title "Mozart in Schönbrunn", but in 1999 conservationists found that the monument was in jeopardy and performances on the unique open-air stage had to be discontinued.
In 1994 Hans Gabor passed away unexpectedly and Rudolf Berger continued the successful programming.
Present and Future / The Artistic Concept
In the opera season of 1999/2000 Isabella Gabor and Holger Bleck took over the management of the Kammeroper. In keeping with the Kammeroper’s tradition, the main pillars of the Vienna Kammeroper continue to be promoting the young generation of singers with the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition and the opera productions at the Kammeroper’s location on Fleischmarkt.
Art in the sense of telling stories, musical theatre that is current, touching, makes us happy, upsets us, makes us want to discuss things, the advancement of young musicians, and last but not least an attentive audience. This, and much more, makes Wiener Kammeroper what it is – music theatre with a unique and unmistakable concept in the artistic environment of Austria and Vienna.
After all, the programming of Wiener Kammeroper is exclusively dedicated to rarities and/or Austrian premières from the of baroque opera, Opera buffa, chamber musical and contemporary musical theatre which are neither part of the repertory of the big opera houses nor played by independent groups yet reveal a quality that is truly compelling.
With the 2007/08 season another focus will be added: Under the motto “Unerhört Neu Gehört” (”The Unheard Made Heard”) we want to present all but forgotten major masterpieces which, wrongly so, never became part of the standard repertory or have never been played in a chamber-music version with small orchestra.
The 2007/2008 seasons will see no fewer than five Austrian premières.
Our new series “Unerhört Neu Gehört” will open with “The Cunning Little Vixen” by Leos Janáček played in Jonathan Dove’s chamber orchestration – a fable about the cycle of life in nature, with its constant alternation of Eros and Thanatos. Our chamber musical series continues with “The last five years“ by Jason Robert Brown – a highly original two-person piece in which HE tells the story of their relationship going forward whilst SHE gives us her account going backward. One of the most sophisticated and most remarkable scores of our day and age will be presented under the heading “Musical Theatre Today”. It was created by the British composer Judith Weir on the basis of Ludwig Tieck’s fairy-tale novella "Blond Eckbert". The season then closes with two musical tidbits from among French baroque operas: the two “actes de ballet“ “La Guirlande” and “Zéphyre” by Jean-Philippe Rameau are definitely worth-while discovering.
Contact
Wiener Kammeroper
Fleischmarkt 24
A-1010 Wien
Phone: +43-1-512 01 00 0
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Wiener Kammeroper has now been a fixture of Viennese cultural life for more than fifty years. Founded in 1953 by Hans Gabor, it is an important detail in the big picture of Vienna's reputation as a city of music. Innumerable young artists gained their first stage experience at Wiener Kammeroper; and many an international career took off from here. The International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition is one of the most renowned and biggest singers' competitions world-wide. In the opera season 1999/2000 Isabella Gabor and Holger Bleck took over the management of the Kammeroper. |
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