TWO SEASON OPENINGS AND TWO TOURS FOR DANIELE GATTI

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by Opera Charm Team

July 5, 2024

With Staatskapelle Dresden, from 31 August to 14 September, and with the Wiener Philharmoniker, from 27 September to 6 October

Two season openings in Dresden and Vienna, followed by two European tours with two of the most prestigious orchestras worldwide: the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Wiener Philharmoniker. These are the upcoming engagements of conductor Daniele Gatti, who will be inaugurating his first season as Chief Conductor of Staatskapelle Dresden on 31 August – with performances also on 1 and 2 September – with a concert at the Semperoper, in the capital city of Saxony, followed by a tour that will hit Grafenegg, Torre del Lago, Meran, Verona, and Frankfurt. The second opening is that of the new season of the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Musikverein in Vienna – the celebrated “New Year’s” concert hall – scheduled on 27, 28 and 29 September, and followed by a tour that will reach Madrid, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Paris, and Saarbrücken.

Nominated by the orchestra’s musicians on June 2022, on 1 August 2024 Daniele Gatti will begin his new assignment as Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden, the orchestra created in 1548 and led by musicians like Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Karl Böhm, and Rudolf Kempe. Gatti had made his debut with the orchestra in February 2000, on an invitation by Giuseppe Sinopoli, then Chief Conductor of the Saxon’s ensemble. The following years a productive collaboration ensued, which led to the appointment of Gatti as Chief Conductor until 2030. For his first season opening – 31 August, 1 and 2 September, at Dresden’s Semperoper – the Italian musician has chosen to combine Arnold Schönberg’s 1943 orchestra version of Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) and Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. The two works will also be presented on 7 September at the Wolkenturm, in Grafenegg, Austria, on 10 September in Torre del Lago, on 13 September at the Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, and on 14 September at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. During the tour, a second concert program will be presented, with pianist Rudolf Buchbinder performing Beethoven’s Piano concerto No. 4 Op. 58, next to the Overture from the ballet Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus) Op. 43, also by Beethoven, and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 Op. 120 in D minor. These performances will be held at the Wolkenturm in Grafenegg on 8 September, and at the Kursaal in Meran on 12 September.

At the Musikverein, in Vienna, Gatti will be opening the new season of the Wiener Philharmoniker, an orchestra he has been conducting since 2005. On 27, 28 and 29 September they will be presenting works by two great Russian composers from the twentieth century: Igor Stravinsky, with his 1928 ballet, Apollon Musagète, andDmitrij Shostakovich, with his Tenth Symphony in E minor, written in 1953.

The program will then be brought on tour at the Teatro Real in Madrid on 1 October, at the Palacio de Congresos in Zaragoza on 2 October, at the Auditori in Barcelona on 3 October, at the Théâtre des Champs-Èlysèes in Paris on 5 October, and at the E-Werk in Saarbrücken on 6 October.

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Alice Lechner

Alice Lechner comes from a music-loving family. Her first encounter with the opera universe was at the tender age of six. The grandeur of the stage productions and costumes, the backstage chatter, and last, but definitely not least, the music left her in awe, beginning with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The overall feeling that opera awakens in anyone who gets a glimpse into this part of artistic eternity, that each and every day passes the test of time, was what drew her to stay and be a part of this world. The Opera House of Brașov became her second home, and the people who worked there were her second family.

Since then, Alice has devoted her spare time to maximising her musical knowledge through instrumental studies, studying both piano and violin for a short time. In the following years, her number one passion stepped out of the limelight and graciously gave way to Law Studies.
Since 2018 she has been studying Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Her passion for opera, even if it is no longer her top professional priority in terms of career, it has most definitely become her priority during her free time. Wanting to experience the best of both worlds and extend her musical horizons, she regularly attends opera performances throughout Romania and abroad.
With OPERA Charm Magazine, Alice aims to nurture her creative side to help it flourish and bloom and to discover, alongside the magazine’s readers, the fascinatingly complex world of opera.

Currently, she is an LL.M. in Business Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Oana Zamfir

Oana Zamfir is a second year MA student at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, at the Department of Musicology.

She studied violin for 12 years at the “Stefan Luchian” High School of Art in Botosani, later focusing on the theoretical aspects of music. In 2019 she completed her bachelor studies in Musicology as a student of the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca. Her research during 2018-2019 brought to the forefront elements of the archaic ritual within works of composers who activated during the communist period, giving her the opportunity to start a research internship at the “Carl von Ossietzky” University in Germany. In this context, she recorded conversations with members of the Sophie Drinker Institute in Bremen, and had access to documents directly from the Myriam Marbé archive.

Since 2019 she has been a teacher of Music Education and Theoretical Music Studies, making full use of interactive methods in the musical training of students and working, at the same time, with the children’s choir founded in the first year of her activity.

Her interests include pursuing a degree in interior design in 2020.

Alexandru Suciu

Alexandru Suciu inherited his passion for art growing up in a family of several generations of musicians. He began his musical studies at the “Augustin Bena” School of Music in Cluj, where he studied piano and guitar. Even though his main study direction was philological, his passion for music prevailed. He began his academical journey at the Faculty of Letters of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University, studying Comparative literature and English. He continued by studying Opera Singing at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy. He also graduated the Musical Education section, followed by Artistic Directing at the Musical Performing Arts department.

His multidisciplinary education opened the doors towards research, which is seen both through his participation in national and international conferences and symposia, such as the Salzburg Easter School PhD-forum, organized by the Salzburg Universität or the Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars, organized by the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, as well as the collaboration with Opera Charm Magazine.

During his student years, he won several prizes, including the Grand Prize at the “Paul Constantinescu” National Musical Interpretation Competition, the Romanian Composers and Musicologists’ Union Prize at the same competition, the First Prize and the Schubert Prize at the “Ada Ulubeanu” Competition.

He further developed his artistic skills by specializing in courses and masterclasses held by personalities such as Vittorio Terranova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marian Pop, Ines Salazar, Riccardo Zanellato, Paolo Bosisio, Valentina Farcaș and Manuel Lange in contexts such as the Internationale Sommerakademie für Operngesang Deutschlandsberg, Corso Internazionale di Canto Lirico I.M.C. Licata or the Europäische Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Montepulciano. Besides his activity on-stage, he currently teaches Opera Singing Didactics, and Pedagogical Practice within the Department for Teacher Education and Training at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy.

Cristina Fieraru

Cristina is a 24 year-old Romanian soprano & a student at the National University of Music Bucharest, where she pursues the MA program in Vocal Performance.

She made her debut in Pamina from “Die Zauberflöte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at only 19 years old at the Bucharest National Opera House, as a member of the Ludovic Spiess Experimental Opera Studio. Over the years she made her debut in roles such as Contessa d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimì & Musetta (La Bohème), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) in her university’s opera productions.
Her passion and experience extends in the field of choral music, too.

She has been part of our dream team since the fall of 2021. For a good period of time she took care of OPERA Charm’s social media and took you on the monthly journey through the history of opera through our Legends rubric – and a few times through the Theaters around the World rubric.

Her little soul rubric – from 2021 to present – is definitely the Conductors of the Future, where, every month, she gives you the chance to meet a young star of the world of conducting and, of course, to find out what’s the most charming feature of opera in these artists’ views.

BIANCA L. NICA

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