Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg
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Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg is an international opera festival for young talented singers, founded and directed by German composer Siegfried Matthus
. It takes place every summer at the historical Rheinsberg
Castle, in Brandenburg
(Germany
). The festival presents the winners of the International Singing Competition Schloss Rheinsberg, in which about 450 candidates from all over the world participate every year.
, Kurt Masur
and Christian Thielemann
, and directors have included Götz Friedrich
, August Everding
, Harry Kupfer
and Axel Köhler
, among many others.
The Festival has no orchestra of his own, but collaborates with many well-known German orchestras: RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg, Neubranbenburger Philharmonie, Brandenburg State Orchestra, Brandenburgische Philharmonie Potsdam, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Brandenburger Symphoniker, Braunschweig State Orchestra
.
In 2000 the completely restored Castle Theater (Schlosstheater) opened its doors to the public. The Rheinsberg Opera Festival also has a rarity among theaters - the 18th century Garden Theater (Heckentheater), with capacity for 1000 spectators in a total area of 750 m2. The Opera Festival also uses rooms in Rheinsberg Castle for many concerts during the summer festival season.
Siegfried Matthus
has been the Artistic Director of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg since 1990, Claudia Eder
is the Voice Advisor and Rainer Schwarz the Festival Manager and Executive Director. The Festival includes opera productions in both Castle and Garden Theaters, and many thematic concerts and masterclasses.
the International Singing Competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, in which over 450 candidates from all over the world participate. The winners of the competition then have the chance to perform various different roles required for the opera productions. Thus the singers of the festival are the chosen elite of young singers worldwide, and thousands of classical music fans travel to Rheinsberg to hear their young voices. Many highly talented young singers started a successful career through their appearance at the Rheinsberg festival. Singers who have started in Rheinsberg can be heard at the New York Metropolitan Opera
, La Scala
, Salzburg Festival
, other various international opera houses such as Royal Swedish Opera
in Stockholm, Tokyo Opera House, Vienna State Opera
, Sydney Opera House
, Zürich Opera House
and most German opera houses.
Some of the former winners of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg:
Siegfried Matthus
Siegfried Matthus is a German composer and opera director living in Berlin and is one of Germany's most often performed contemporary composers.- Biography :Matthus attended secondary school in Rheinsberg, followed by studies at the Hochschule für Musik...
. It takes place every summer at the historical Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Rhin, approx. 20 km north-east of Neuruppin and 75 km north-west of Berlin.-History:...
Castle, in Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
(Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
). The festival presents the winners of the International Singing Competition Schloss Rheinsberg, in which about 450 candidates from all over the world participate every year.
Festival
The Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg Festival was founded in 1990 by Siegfried Matthus, who also composed the opening opera: "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke". In the last 20 years there have been more than 70 opera and concert productions. Experienced, renowned conductors and directors work with the young singers on opera roles under professional conditions and support the festival as members of the committee. Conductors have included Daniel BarenboimDaniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....
, Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur is a German conductor, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music.- Biography :Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. Masur has been married three times...
and Christian Thielemann
Christian Thielemann
-Career:Thielemann studied viola and piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and took private lessons in composition and conducting before becoming répétiteur aged 19 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Heinrich Hollreiser and working as Herbert von Karajan's assistant...
, and directors have included Götz Friedrich
Götz Friedrich
Götz Friedrich was a German opera and theatre director.He was a student and assistant of Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin, where he went on to direct his early productions...
, August Everding
August Everding
August Everding was a German opera director and administrator. He studied at the Universities of Bonn and Munich, where launching his career in the 1950s...
, Harry Kupfer
Harry Kupfer
Harry Kupfer is a German opera director. He studied theatre in Leipzig and directed his first opera, Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka, in 1958....
and Axel Köhler
Axel Köhler
Axel Köhler is a German countertenor and opera director. He won the Handel Music Prize in 1994.-Sources:*http://www.axelkoehler.com/*http://www.buehnen-halle.de/...
, among many others.
The Festival has no orchestra of his own, but collaborates with many well-known German orchestras: RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg, Neubranbenburger Philharmonie, Brandenburg State Orchestra, Brandenburgische Philharmonie Potsdam, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Brandenburger Symphoniker, Braunschweig State Orchestra
Staatsorchester Braunschweig
The Staatsorchester Braunschweig is a German orchestra. It was founded in 1587 by Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel as his court orchestra. It worked with Franz Liszt and Richard Strauss. It lost its independence as a court orchestra in 1918 and became the orchestra of the Braunschweiger...
.
In 2000 the completely restored Castle Theater (Schlosstheater) opened its doors to the public. The Rheinsberg Opera Festival also has a rarity among theaters - the 18th century Garden Theater (Heckentheater), with capacity for 1000 spectators in a total area of 750 m2. The Opera Festival also uses rooms in Rheinsberg Castle for many concerts during the summer festival season.
Siegfried Matthus
Siegfried Matthus
Siegfried Matthus is a German composer and opera director living in Berlin and is one of Germany's most often performed contemporary composers.- Biography :Matthus attended secondary school in Rheinsberg, followed by studies at the Hochschule für Musik...
has been the Artistic Director of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg since 1990, Claudia Eder
Claudia Eder
Claudia Eder is a German mezzo-soprano in opera and concert, and an academic in Mainz.- Biography :Claudia Eder was born in Augsburg, Germany. She studied voice and cello at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, in Budapest...
is the Voice Advisor and Rainer Schwarz the Festival Manager and Executive Director. The Festival includes opera productions in both Castle and Garden Theaters, and many thematic concerts and masterclasses.
Singers
The Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg organises every year in BerlinBerlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
the International Singing Competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, in which over 450 candidates from all over the world participate. The winners of the competition then have the chance to perform various different roles required for the opera productions. Thus the singers of the festival are the chosen elite of young singers worldwide, and thousands of classical music fans travel to Rheinsberg to hear their young voices. Many highly talented young singers started a successful career through their appearance at the Rheinsberg festival. Singers who have started in Rheinsberg can be heard at the New York Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
, La Scala
La Scala
La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
, Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
, other various international opera houses such as Royal Swedish Opera
Royal Swedish Opera
Kungliga Operan is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet.-Location and Environment:...
in Stockholm, Tokyo Opera House, Vienna State Opera
Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera . In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Austrian...
, Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...
, Zürich Opera House
Zurich Opera House
Opernhaus Zürich is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zurich. It has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891.- History :...
and most German opera houses.
Some of the former winners of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg:
- Claudia Barainsky (1991)
- Nina Warren (1991)
- Andreas KarasiakAndreas Karasiak- Biography :Andreas Karasiak studied voice at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz with Claudia Eder. He studied Baroque music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with René Jacobs in Basel....
(1992, 1993) - Friedemann Röhlig (1998)
- Camilla TillingCamilla TillingCamilla Tilling is a Swedish soprano in opera and concert.- Professional career :Camilla Tilling studied at the Högskolan för scen och musik in Göteborg and at the Royal College of Music in London, where she graduated in 1998.Her opera debut was the role of Olympia in Offenbach's The Tales of...
(1998) - Boguslaw Didzinski (1999)
- Kristiane Kaiser (1999)
- Annette DaschAnnette DaschAnnette Dasch is a German soprano. She performs in operas and concerts.- Biography :Annette Dasch studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Josef Loibl....
(2000 and 2001) - Aris Argiris (2002)
- Marco Jentzsch (2003, 2004)
- Hyung-Wook Lee (2004)
- Gabriela SchererGabriela Scherer- Birth and education :Gabriela Scherer was born in 1981 in Zurich, Switzerland. She grew up in Switzerland where she was exposed to music at an early age. Having spent many years singing and learning music with the local choir she began her studies with Helen Keller in Zurich.Between 2002 and...
(2005) - Ines Thomas AlmeidaInes Thomas AlmeidaInes Thomas Almeida is a Dominican-Portuguese lyric singer currently living in Berlin and Lisbon.- Life and career :...
(2008)