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Every year, the Department of Opera and Music Theatre prepares two opera classes with up to 15 highly talented students from renowned theatre makers for the high demands of an international opera career. Four staged productions with orchestra are performed for a wide audience each year.

Mirabellplatz 1
5020 Salzburg

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Current productions

24.1.2025

07:00 pm

Max Schlereth Saal

A Poet's love

Florentine Klepper stages the most famous song cycle of German Romanticism as a large ensemble work and sets off with the students of the opera class in search of clues to the abysses of the soul. Love, loneliness and human finiteness: eternal themes run through the sixteen songs of Robert Schumann'

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25.1.2025

04:00 pm

Max Schlereth Saal

A Poet's love

Florentine Klepper stages the most famous song cycle of German Romanticism as a large ensemble work and sets off with the students of the opera class in search of clues to the abysses of the soul. Love, loneliness and human finiteness: eternal themes run through the sixteen songs of Robert Schumann'

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27.1.2025

07:00 pm

Max Schlereth Saal

A Poet's love

Florentine Klepper stages the most famous song cycle of German Romanticism as a large ensemble work and sets off with the students of the opera class in search of clues to the abysses of the soul. Love, loneliness and human finiteness: eternal themes run through the sixteen songs of Robert Schumann'

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28.1.2025

07:00 pm

Max Schlereth Saal

A Poet's love

Florentine Klepper stages the most famous song cycle of German Romanticism as a large ensemble work and sets off with the students of the opera class in search of clues to the abysses of the soul. Love, loneliness and human finiteness: eternal themes run through the sixteen songs of Robert Schumann'

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15.12.2024

Magic, poetics and absurdity

At the beginning of 2025, Florentine Klepper and Kai Röhrig's opera class at the Mozarteum University will bring Christian Jost's ‘Dichterliebe’ to the stage. The two set designers Carla Schwering and Yvonne Schäfer talk about the ideas and realisation of their visions for the stage design.

Interview
19.11.2024

The eternally young story of Romeo and Juliet

Vincenzo Bellini's highly romantic bel canto opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi celebrates its premiere in the Max Schlereth Saal on 10 December under the direction of Alexander von Pfeil and musical direction of Gernot Sahler. A conversation with maestro Gernot Sahler about Bellini's inventiveness and the challenge of dealing with special stage situations.

Interview
30.9.2024

Moz-Art-Zone: Offers for schools in the winter semester 2024/25

As part of the Moz-Art-Zone, we link special events for school classes to the broad spectrum of university programmes and thus want to give children and young people access to music, art and culture. The focus is on young people meeting (young) artists who offer an insight into the artistic work of the various departments at the Mozarteum University. The Moz-Art-Zone offers a colourful mix of activities, from a visit to the opera with an artist talk and theatre laboratory to special educational concerts and hands-on workshops in the graphics workshop.

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13.6.2024

On spaces and interstices in Mozart's „Le nozze di Figaro“

Mozart's „Le nozze di Figaro“ will celebrate its premiere on 18 June in the Max Schlereth Saal at Mozarteum University. The director of the production, Alexander von Pfeil, and set designer Thorben Schumüller talk about the creation process, inspirations and the opera's major themes: hierarchies, power relations, gender roles...

Interview