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Stichting Pierre Boulez in collaboration with
INTERNATIONAL
VOCAL COMPETITION DEN
BOSCH
BAYREUTH REVISITED
Wagner Academy
22 – 24 | 26 – 28
September 2013
Theater aan de Parade
's-Hertogenbosch
25 September 2013
Conservatorium van
Amsterdam
prof.dr.Etty Mulder, dr. Catherine Steinegger
The International
Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard
Wagner with the organisation of a Wagner Academy for young professional
singers. This special seven-day course will focus on the operas and songs of
Richard Wagner and will be held from 22 – 28 September 2013 in the Theater aan de
Parade in ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Internationally-renowned
masters
The IVC has engaged
internationally-renowned Wagner singers as masters for the Academy. These are
soprano Nadine Secunde, mezzo-soprano Dunja Vejzović, tenor Siegfried
Jerusalem and baritone Wolfgang Brendel.
The conductor Ed
Spanjaard, who recently conducted Wagner’s complete Ring
des Nibelungen for
the Nationale Reisopera Enschede, will also share his knowledge of Wagner’s
music with the singers chosen.
Peter Lockwood from De
Nederlandse Opera and Klaus Sallmann from the Berliner Staatsoper will coach
the participants and accompany the master classes.
Introductions to the
repertoire are given by musicologists Dr. Etty Mulder, Emeritus Professor of
Musicology University of Nijmegen, Dr. Eveline Nikkels and Dr. Catherine
Steinegger and conductor Ed Spanjaard.
Audiences
During the Wagner
Academy there will be master classes, lectures and films that will be open to
the general public. The lectures and films have as a starting point the
spectacular staging of the Ring des Nibelungen by director Patrice Chéreau and
conductor Pierre Boulez at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976, held in the context
of 100 years of Bayreuth. The Wagner Academy fringe programme is part of the
project Pierre Boulez and the Intermedial Artwork coordinated by the Pierre Boulez Foundation by
Dr. Etty Mulder in collaboration with other musicologists a.o. Dr. Catherine
Steinegger and advised by Jan Zekveld artistic director of the philharmonie
southern Netherlands.
The Wagner Academy
takes place in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Theater aan de Parade. On Wednesday,
September 25th there is a Wagner day in the Conservatory of Amsterdam with
public master classes, a panel discussion, movie screening and CD presentation
by EMI with a Ring children's story containing excerpts fromDer Ring des Nibelungen. The story is
written and narrated by Edwin Rutten. The Academy will end on 28 September with
a concert in which the singers who have taken part in the Academy will present
their Wagnerian repertoire to the public.
Collaboration
The Wagner Academy has
been made possible thanks to a collaboration between the IVC and the Pierre
Boulez Foundation, the Wagner Society Netherlands, the Gustav Mahler Foundation
Netherlands, the Amsterdam Conservatory and the Theatre aan de Parade
's-Hertogenbosch.
PROGRAM
Sunday, 22 September
14.30h:
Opening of the Wagner Academy in the presence
of various guests, participants and masters.
Screening of Film The
making of the Ring, a documentary about the Ring
des Nibelungen in the
interpretation of Pierre Boulez and Patrice Chéreau in 1976.
Key note adress: Dr. Catherine Steinegger : The making of the
Ring {Boulez/Chéreau}
Solo performance by one or more of the
participating singers.
Monday, 23 September
Introductions to the repertoire are given in a
series of lectures on 23, 24 and 26 September by musicologists Dr. Etty Mulder,
emeritus professor of Musicology University of Nijmegen, Dr. Eveline Nikkels,
Dr. Emanuel Overbeeke and conductor Ed Spanjaard.
14.30h: Lecture | Master class by Dunja
Vejzović and Klaus Sallmann
19.30h: Lecture | Master class by Siegfried
Jerusalem and Peter Lockwood
LECTURE :
Etty Mulder : The motif of Erwachung in Der Ring des Nibelungen {Boulez/Chéreau}
Tuesday, 24 September
14.30h: Lecture | Master class by Wolfgang
Brendel and Peter Lockwood
19.30h: Lecture | Master class by Nadine
Secunde and Klaus Sallmann
LECTURE:
Eveline
Nikkels : the Wesendonklieder
Wednesday, 25 September
Location: Bernard Haitink Hall of the Conservatory
of Amsterdam
11.00h: Master class by all five masters
13.15h: Film The making of the Ring, a documentary
about the Ring des Nibelungen in the interpretation of Pierre Boulez
and Patrice Chéreau in 1976.
14.15h: Panel discussion
16.15h: Presentation EMI Ring for children by
Edwin Rutten
Thursday, 26 September
14.30h: Lecture | Master class by Dunja
Vejzović and Klaus Sallmann
19.30h: Lecture | Master class by Ed Spanjaard
and Peter Lockwood
LECTURES:
Etty
Mulder: Wagner, Boulez; antisemitism in the Ring { Boulez/Chéreau}
Eveline
Nikkels: The love between sisters: Waltraute, Brünnhilde
Emanuel
Overbeeke: Götterdämmerung: dialogues between music and text
Friday, 27 September
14.30h: Master class by Nadine Secunde and
Peter Lockwood
19.30h: Master class by Siegfried Jerusalem
and Klaus Sallmann
Saturday,
28 September
15.00h: Closing
concert participants Wagner Academy. With piano accompaniment.
Ticket
sales
Ticket sales are
open to the general public at the Theater aan de Parade: www.theateraandeparade.nl or
Bosch Ticket, tel. +31 73 680 9800.