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Tiroler Landestheater Extends CEO’s Contract

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The Tiroler Landestheater has announced that it will be extending its CEO Irene Girkinger contract for another five years. As a result, she will stay until August 31, 2033. Since the season 2023-24, Girkinger has been leading the company and has focused on versatile, courageous and contemporary programming, cross-disciplinary work, the promotion of young talents and a theatre that faces {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck Announces 2022-23 Season

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The Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the Opera productions. The season opens with Schumann’s “Genoveva” with Lukas Beikircher conducting and Johannes Reitmeier directing. Premiere Date: Sept. 24, 2022 Tommaso Turchetta conducts Puccini’s “Tosca” with Thilo Reinhardt directing. Premiere Date: Oct. 1, 2022 Hansjörg Sofka conducts Jason Robert Brown’s “Songs for a New {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater 2021-21 Review: The Rape of Lucretia

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(Photo: Birgit Gufler) Director Johannes Reitmeier brought the Tiroler Landestheater’s production of Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia” to close with a question. “How was it possible?” was projected across the stage in large letters. Not only did this immediately encourage the audience to reflect on what they had witnessed and to attempt an answer, but it is also a question {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck Announces 2021-22 Season

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Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, Austria has announced its 2021-22 season featuring theater, opera, symphony and dance. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on vocal and operatic performances. The season with Péter Eötvös’s “Der goldene Drache” with Hansjörg Sofka conducting a production by Björn Reinke. Performance Dates: Oct. 16-Dec. 17, 2021 Piazzolla’s “Maria de Buenos Aires” will be directed {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater Announces Renovation of The Große Haus

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The Tiroler Landestheater has announced that it will begin the renovation of its Mainstage Opera House on May 31, 2021. The renovations will update the stage’s technical capabilities to modern-day requirements. The two shareholders of the Tiroler Landestheater und Orchester GmbH Innsbruck – the state of Tyrol and the city of Innsbruck – are investing around seven million euros in {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater 2020-21 Review: The Lighthouse

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(Photo: Birgit Gufler) In December 1900 the HMS Hesperus weighed anchor close to a group of small rocky outcrops known as the Flannan Islands, situated in the Outer Hebrides. It was reacting to a report from a passing ship that the island’s lighthouse was not shining its light. Receiving no signal from the lighthouse, the captain of the Hesperus sent {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater Announces 2020-21 Season

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The Tiroler Landestheater has announced its 2020-21 season. For the purposes of this article we will only focus on the operas presented next season. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” conducted by Lukas Beikircher in a production by Thilo Reinhardt. Premiere Date: Sept. 26, 2020 Mussorgsky “Boris Godunov” will be directed by Thaddeus Strassberger and conducted by Tommaso Turchetta {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck 2018-19 Review: Mignon

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(Photo Credit: Rupert Larl) Strange as it may now seem, but “Mignon” by the French composer, Thomas, was one of the most popular operas of its day. Premiered at Paris’ Opera-Comique in November 1866, it received its 100th performance by July the following year, and its 1,000th by 1894. Its reception in Germany, however, was less successful, maybe unsurprisingly so, {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater 2018 Review: The Fall Of The House of Usher

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October saw the opening of Innsbruck’s Haus der Musik, containing two concert halls and a small theater for staged works. Costing €62.7m, it is a splendid modern building, with a large glass front surrounded by dark ceramic paneling. Sitting next to the Landestheater, with its ochre-colored neoclassical façade, dominated by its four Corinthian columns, and opposite to the Hofburg palace, {…}