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Corrado Rovaris

Corrado Rovaris

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Corrado Rovaris ist der Musikdirektor der Opera Philadelphia und Musikdirektor des 2011 vom Walton Arts Center gegründeten Artosphere Festival Orchestra. Gefeiert für seinen lebendigen Stil, insbesondere im Belcanto-Repertoire, hat Rovaris' warme Präsenz auf dem Podium ihn zu einem Favoriten unter den größten Opernstars gemacht.

Rovaris eröffnet die Saison 2023/24 der Opera Philadelphia mit SIMON BOCCANEGRA und kehrt im Frühjahr 2024 zurück, um eine neue Produktion von MADAME BUTTERFLY zu dirigieren. Im November leitet er eine Wiederaufnahme von ALFREDO IL GRANDE beim Donizetti Opera Festival 2023 in Bergamo, der ersten Inszenierung dieses Werks seit seiner Uraufführung vor zweihundert Jahren in Neapel. Im Januar wird er LE NOZZE DI FIGARO an der Deutschen Oper Berlin dirigieren. Nach dem Artosphere Festival im Mai wird Rovaris den ganzen Sommer über elf Vorstellungen von LA TRAVIATA an der Santa Fe Opera dirigieren.

Als Verfechter neuer Werke spielte Rovaris eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Einführung des jährlichen Festival O der Opera Philadelphia, einer zweiwöchigen Veranstaltung mit Uraufführungen und anderen Opernereignissen in der ganzen Stadt sowie bei der Aurora Series for Chamber Opera. Zu den jüngsten Uraufführungen gehören GLASS HANDEL, eine Opern-Kunstinstallation mit der Musik von Georg Friedrich Händel und Philip Glass, die von der Opera Philadelphia und der National Sawdust koproduziert wurde, ELIZABETH CREE, eine Kammeroper des Pulitzer-Preisträgers Kevin Puts nach dem Roman von Peter Ackroyd, und das viel gelobte WRITTEN ON SKIN von George Benjamin.

Corrado Rovaris wurde in Bergamo (Italien) geboren und absolvierte das Konservatorium von Mailand mit Abschlüssen in Komposition, Orgel und Cembalo. Von 1992 bis 1996 war er stellvertretender Chorleiter am Teatro alla Scala. Bald darauf begann er, als regelmäßiger Gast in vielen der großen italienischen Opernhäuser wie der Scala, dem Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, dem Teatro La Fenice, dem Teatro dell'Opera di Roma und dem Teatro Comunale di Bologna aufzutreten. Auf internationaler Ebene leitete er Produktionen u. a. für die Opéra de Lyon, die Opera Monte Carlo, das Théâtre Municipal de Lausanne, die Oper Köln, die Oper Frankfurt, das Garsington Opera Festival und die Japan Opera Foundation in Tokio. In Nordamerika hat Rovaris die Canadian Opera Company, die Santa Fe Opera, die St. Louis Opera und die Glimmerglass Opera dirigiert. Im Oktober 2008 dirigierte er die Tucker Gala mit dem Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, bei der unter anderem Susan Graham und Bryn Terfel als Gastsolisten auftraten. Er hat eine enge Verbindung zum Curtis Institute of Music aufgebaut und leitet seit 2009 mehrere gemeinsame Produktionen des Curtis Institute of Music und der Oper Philadelphia, darunter 2018 die Produktion von Bernsteins A QUIET PLACE.

Maestro Rovaris wurde 2015 in den Ritterstand des Verdienstordens der Italienischen Republik erhoben und 2016 mit dem Franco-Abbiati-Preis geehrt.

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DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 22. Fensterchen

On 7 March 2025, the first part of Tobias Kratzer's Strauss trilogy, ARABELLA, celebrates its revival as part of our ‘Richard Strauss in March’ weeks, with Jennifer Davis as Arabella , Heidi Stober as Zdenka/Zdenko, Thomas Johannes Mayer as Mandryka, Daniel O'Hearn as Matteo and, as in the premiere series, Doris Soffel and Albert Pesendorfer as the Waldner couple. Today we are giving away our DVD, which will not be available in shops until 14 February 2025. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to NAXOS for giving us the very special opportunity to put ARABELLA in our lottery pot for you almost eight weeks before the official sales launch.

In today's Advent Calendar window, we are giving away two DVDs of ARABELLA – a lyrical comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. If you would like to win one of the two DVDs, please write an e-mail with the subject ‘The 22nd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Vienna, circa 1860. The financially strapped Count Waldner is lodging with his family in a Viennese hotel. His only path to solvency is for him to secure an advantageous marriage for one of his two daughters – and the family can only afford to present Arabella, the eldest, in the upper circles of society. To conceal the family’s indigence, the parents have raised Zdenka as a boy, dressing her accordingly. Arabella is not short of suitors but has resolved to wait for ‘Mr Right’. When Mandryka, an aristocrat from a distant region, arrives, he and Arabella are instantly smitten. Arabella only asks to be able to bid farewell to her friends and suitors at the Fasching ball that evening. At the ball, Arabella says goodbye to her admirers. There is also the young officer Matteo, with whom Zdenka is secretly in love and with whom she has formed a friendship under the guise of her disguise as a boy. Matteo, however, desires Arabella and is distraught when he realises the hopelessness of his love. Zdenka devises a plan: she fakes a letter from Arabella in which she promises Matteo a night of love together. But instead she wants to wait for him herself in the darkness of the hotel room. Mandryka learns of Arabella's alleged infidelity and goes to the hotel with the ball guests to surprise Arabella in flagrante delicto. Arabella, innocent of this, is initially shocked and saddened by Mandryka’s suspicions but forgives him when the mix-up is revealed for what it is. The two agree to marry, as do Zdenka and Matteo.

Richard Strauss’s orchestral richness and opulence coupled with the period Viennese setting of the work led to ARABELLA being falsely pigeonholed as a light-hearted comedy of errors from its 1933 premiere onwards. In the estimation of Tobias Kratzer, however, who triumphed at the Deutsche Oper with his production of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s THE DWARF, this final collaboration between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal marks a collision of two world views: the traditional roles of men and women on the one hand – as expressed in Arabella’s famous solo “Und du sollst mein Gebieter sein” – and a modern idea of social interaction on the other – as illustrated by Zdenka with her questioning of gender-based identities. Here, Kratzer turns the spotlight on this disunity between the various character portrayals in ARABELLA and explores these role-specific tensions on a continuum stretching from 19th-century Vienna to the present day. In the category of stage design, Manuel Braun, Jonas Dahl and Rainer Sellmaier were honoured with the renowned German Theatre Award DER FAUST 2023 for this production.

In this recording, under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles, you will experience Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Sara Jakubiak, Elena Tsallagova, Russell Braun, Robert Watson, Thomas Blondelle, Kyle Miller, Tyler Zimmerman, Hye-Young Moon, Lexi Hutton, Jörg Schörner and others, as well as the chorus and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The performances on 18 and 23 March 2023 were recorded by rbb Kultur and Naxos for this DVD.

We would like to thank the Naxos label for the great collaboration over the past few years, which documents recordings of DER ZWERG, DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, DER SCHATZGRÄBER, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG and ANTIKRIST. Richard Strauss' ARABELLA and INTERMEZZO will be released in the course of 2025.


Closing date: 22 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 23 December 2024. The DVDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.