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Solo Concert Georg Nigl and Nicholas Ofczarek

Vienna State Opera, Main Stage, Vienna, Austria
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Vienna, Austria
Starts at: 20:00

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Baritone: Georg Nigl
Singer: Nicholas Ofczarek
Programme
Overview

Georg Nigl always delights audiences and the press with passionate and authentic performances, be it his celebrated Wozzeck at La Scala in Milan, Rihm's Lenz in Brussels and Berlin or his interpretation of the Bach cantatas with Luca Pianca.

His profound and comprehensive engagement with all the works he performs, his close affinity with spoken theatre and the accompanying emphasis on text and rhetoric, as well as his expressive performing skills on stage, make Georg Nigl one of the most celebrated baritones in the world. He was already closely connected to music as a child. As a soprano soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir he appeared on the most important stages. During his studies with Hilde Zadek he received further important impulses for his subsequent career as a baritone. His unmistakable timbre, which gives his characters special weight and character, has taken him to all the important opera stages. He has appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, La Scala in Milan, the Berlin and Bavarian State Operas, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Zurich Opera House and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, as well as at festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Ruhrtriennale and the Vienna Festival Weeks. He has worked with renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Teodor Currentzis, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, Kent Nagano and Kirill Petrenko, and with directors Andrea Breth, Romeo Castellucci, Frank Castorf, Hans Neuenfels, Johan Simons, Dmitri Tcherniakov and Sasha Waltz. Georg Nigl has gained special recognition not only as a performing soloist in numerous world premieres, but also as a source of inspiration for compositions and publications by, among others, Friedrich Cerha, Pascal Dusapin, Georg Friedrich Haas, Wolfgang Mitterer, Olga Neuwirth and Wolfgang Rihm. His chamber music repertoire shows a wide spectrum from Baroque to Viennese Classical and New Music. His recording Bach privat was awarded the Diapason d'or in November 2017. His lied record Vanitas gemeinsam musiziert mit Olga Pashchenko, with Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, selected songs by Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Rihm's Vermischter Traum, released in spring 2020, was awarded the Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2021. In 2020 Georg Nigl performed Molto agitato (Nagano / Castorf) at the opening of the season of the Hamburg State Opera, followed by Orfeo and Frau ohne Schatten at the Berlin State Opera, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus at the Vienna State Opera, Dusapin's Penthesilea with the Orchestre de Paris, and concerts in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Elbphilharmonie, Paris, Munich, Vienna and Cologne, among others. The season ended with a new production of Reimann's Lear at the Bavarian State Opera. 2021/22 began with concerts at the Salzburg Festival and the Musikfest Berlin, followed by the new production of Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima e di corpo at the Theater an der Wien. Other highlights include the title role in the new production of Monteverdi's Orfeo at the Vienna State Opera, and Mozart's Magic Flute at the Berlin State Opera and the Vienna State Opera. Lieder recitals bring him to the Monnaie in Brussels, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Kölner Philharmonie and the Heidelberger Frühling. Georg Nigl has also appeared with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bach's St Matthew Passion under Sir Simon Rattle and with the Mozarteum Orchestra under Constantinos Carydis in Salzburg. For Wolfgang Rihm's 70th birthday, Georg Nigl performs Rihm's Terzinen an den Tod, as well as the Wölfl-Lieder under Ingo Metzmacher in Munich. In 2022 he can be heard at the Salzburg Festival in a concert performance of Rihm's Jakob Lenz. In the 2015 critics' poll of Opernwelt magazine, Georg Nigl was named "Singer of the Year" for his interpretation of Rihm's Lenz.

The program for this event will be announced soon.

Venue Info

Vienna State Opera - Vienna
Location   Opernring 2

The Vienna State Opera is one of the leading opera houses in the world. Its past is steeped in tradition. Its present is alive with richly varied performances and events. Each season, the schedule features 350 performances of more than 60 different operas and ballets. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from the Vienna State Opera's orchestra. The building is also the home of the Vienna State Ballet, and it hosts the annual Vienna Opera Ball during the carnival season.

The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, and designs by Josef Hlávka. The opera house was inaugurated as the "Vienna Court Opera" (Wiener Hofoper) in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It became known by its current name after the establishment of the First Austrian Republic in 1921. The Vienna State Opera is the successor of the Vienna Court Opera, the original construction site chosen and paid for by Emperor Franz Joseph in 1861.

The opera house was the first major building on the Vienna Ringstrasse commissioned by the Viennese "city expansion fund". Work commenced on the house in 1861 and was completed in 1869, following plans drawn up by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style by the renowned Czech architect and contractor Josef Hlávka.

Gustav Mahler was one of the many conductors who have worked in Vienna. During his tenure (1897–1907), Mahler cultivated a new generation of singers, such as Anna Bahr-Mildenburg and Selma Kurz, and recruited a stage designer who replaced the lavish historical stage decors with sparse stage scenery corresponding to modernistic, Jugendstil tastes. Mahler also introduced the practice of dimming the lighting in the theatre during performances, which was initially not appreciated by the audience. However, Mahler's reforms were maintained by his successors.

Herbert von Karajan introduced the practice of performing operas exclusively in their original language instead of being translated into German. He also strengthened the ensemble and regular principal singers and introduced the policy of predominantly engaging guest singers. He began a collaboration with La Scala in Milan, in which both productions and orchestrations were shared. This created an opening for the prominent members of the Viennese ensemble to appear in Milan, especially to perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss.

Ballet companies merge

At the beginning of the 2005–2006 season, the ballet companies of the Staatsoper and the Vienna Volksoper were merged under the direction of Gyula Harangozó.

From the 2010–2011 season a new company was formed called Wiener Staatsballet, Vienna State Ballet, under the direction of former Paris Opera Ballet principal dancer Manuel Legris. Legris eliminated Harangozós's policy of presenting nothing but traditional narrative ballets with guest artists in the leading roles, concentrated on establishing a strong in-house ensemble and restored evenings of mixed bill programs, featuring works of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, and many contemporary choreographers, as well as a reduced schedule of the classic ballets.

Opera ball

For many decades, the opera house has been the venue of the Vienna Opera Ball. It is an internationally renowned event, which takes place annually on the last Thursday in Fasching. Those in attendance often include visitors from around the world, especially prominent names in business and politics. The opera ball receives media coverage from a range of outlets.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Vienna, Austria
Starts at: 20:00
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