Family concert: APPLAUSE FOR THE STRAUSS BROTHERS!

Conductor: Andreas Leisner
Direction: Giulia Giammona
Choreography and set design: Alessandra Bareggi
Projections: Michael Hofer-Lenz

Prima donna: Verena Tranker
Eduard Strauss | Singer | Gondolier: Philipp Martin Fischer
Johann Strauss: Adrian Umberto Weinek

A waiter | torreador | dancer: Alexandre Cardoso
Dancer: Alessandra Bareggi

Special Guest: Jonas Kaufmann

Orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

At the family concert of the winter season, our guests - young and old alike - immerse themselves in the world of the Strauss brothers and embark on a musical journey through the life of the legendary waltz kings. Andreas Leisner leads the orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl and an ensemble that will captivate and enchant the audience. The brilliant rhythms and enchanting melodies that have made the Strauss dynasty famous will be there, and there will certainly be a catchy tune or two! The family concert is a feast for the whole family - with lots of music, movement and, of course, plenty of Viennese charm. Let's hear it for the Strauss brothers!

Team

Andreas Leisner Conductor

Giulia Giammona Direction

Alessandra Bareggi Choreography and set design

Michael Hofer-Lenz Projections

Verena Tranker Prima donna

Philipp Martin Fischer Eduard Strauss | Singer | Gondolier

Adrian Umberto Weinek Johann Strauss

Alexandre Cardoso A waiter | torreador | dancer

Alessandra Bareggi Dancer

Jonas Kaufmann Special Guest

Since his debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York in 2006, Jonas Kaufmann has been one of the top stars of classical music. After engagements in Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Milan, the tenor went to the Zurich Opera in 2001, from where his international career began with appearances at the Lyric Opera Chicago, the Paris Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper in Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, as well as at the festivals in Salzburg and Bayreuth. He is internationally in demand in Italian and French repertoire as well as in German. He has sung Verdi's Otello in London, Munich and Naples, Massenet's Werther in Paris, Vienna and New York, Wagner's Lohengrin in Bayreuth, at La Scala, in Paris and Melbourne. From oratorios and operettas to Canzone napoletana and Viennese songs, he masters the entire spectrum of tenor repertoire and places great emphasis on versatility. He describes song singing as the "royal class of singing," which he cultivates with great success worldwide in artistic partnership with pianist Helmut Deutsch, most recently on an Asia tour.

Since September 2024, Jonas Kaufmann has been Artistic Director of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl. For the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini's death, he undertook a concert tour in Europe in 2024. Further highlights of the current season include Pagliacci at the Vienna State Opera, a song tour with Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch, as well as Pagliacci at the Bavarian State Opera.

Jonas Kaufmann's recordings have been awarded numerous international prizes. He has been voted "Singer of the Year" several times, including by the trade journal Opernwelt, the classical magazines Diapason and Musical America as well as the juries of the International Opera Awards and Opus Klassik (formerly Echo Klassik).

Orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

The music springs from the enthusiasm of a motivated and exceptionally well-prepared ensemble that has grown together over the years. The Tyrolean Festival Erl Orchestra was first formed in the summer of 1999—and today, musicians from 20 nations play together. Already in its first year, the ensemble achieved unprecedented success, which would go on to bring international recognition to the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Top young talents, musicians from major international orchestras, chamber music specialists, and lecturers come together annually in summer and winter—and since 2017, also in fall and spring—as part of the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Under the direction of festival founder Gustav Kuhn, the orchestra garnered rave reviews from international critics and cemented its reputation as one of the world’s finest Wagner orchestras. With the start of Jonas Kaufmann’s tenure as artistic director in September 2024, Asher Fisch—a conductor in high demand internationally in both opera and concert settings—has taken over the helm of the orchestra.

In addition to Richard Wagner’s ten major music dramas and operas by Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, and Rossini, the orchestra’s repertoire includes Beethoven’s symphonies and many other key works from the concert repertoire spanning the Baroque and Romantic periods, as well as contemporary works and world premieres.