Giuseppe Verdi: LA TRAVIATA

Musical Conductor: Asher Fisch

Regie: Mariame Clément

Stage and costumes: Julia Hansen

Lighting design: Ulrik Gad

Choreographie: Mathieu Guilhaumon

Violetta Valéry: Julia Muzychenko

Flora Bervoix: Tatiana Kuryatnikova

Annina: Domenica Radlmaier

Alfredo Germont: Dumitru Mîțu

Giorgio Germont: Vito Priante

Gastone: Peter Kirk

Barone Douphol: Andrea Pellegrini

Marchese d'Obigny: Gianluca Failla

Grenvil: Felix Pacher

Orchestra and Chorus of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

Following the huge success of its concert performances of La traviata in the summer of 2025, the Tiroler Festspiele Erl is now mounting a full staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera.

Its moving tale of the courtesan Violetta Valéry will receive four performances in a production by the internationally renowned director Mariame Clément, who can look back on an impressive career spanning Berlin and Salzburg. Her pro-duction will focus not just on the tragic love story between Violetta and Alfredo, but also on the social structures that determine their lives. Violetta’s downfall is thus depicted as more than a private tragedy, for she holds up a mirror to a society whose morals allow no room for her freedom and her love.

Team

Asher Fisch Musical Conductor

Asher Fisch is Chief Conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and has been Music Director of the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl since the beginning of the 2024/25 season. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading conductors and has an extensive repertoire that covers both opera and concert areas. He began his career as an assistant to Daniel Barenboim and as a conductor at the Berlin State Opera. Since then, he has conducted at major European opera houses, including Vienna, Milan, Munich, Paris and Madrid. As an acknowledged Wagner specialist, Fisch has recorded two complete "Ring" cycles as well as "Tristan und Isolde". In addition, he has intensively studied the Italian repertoire and recently released a Puccini album together with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, the new Artistic Director of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl.

As a concert conductor, Asher Fisch has led renowned US American and European orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France and the London Symphony Orchestra. Asher Fisch is also active as a pianist and can be experienced in piano concerts, with chamber music and as a song accompanist.

Mariame Clément Regie

Opera director Mariame Clément studied literature and art history at the École normale supérieure in her hometown of Paris. Since her directorial debut in Lausanne in 2004, she has been commissioned by major opera houses and festivals to direct productions. She has staged productions at venues including the Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Graz Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Volksoper Wien, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Opéra national de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, at the Semperoper in Dresden, at the Teatro Real in Madrid, at the Bregenz Festival, at the Santa Fe Opera, and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. At the Grand Théâtre de Genève, she began staging a trilogy of Donizetti’s Tudor operas in 2021 (Anne Boleyn, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux). In 2024, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival with The Tales of Hoffmann.

Ulrik Gad Lighting design

Mathieu Guilhaumon Choreographie

Julia Muzychenko Violetta Valéry

Die Sopranistin Julia Muzychenko wurde 1994 geboren. Sie studierte am Konservatorium ihrer Heimatstadt St. Petersburg, an der Young Artist Vocal Academy der Houston Grand Opera und an der Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Sie ist Preisträgerin zahlreicher internationaler Wettbewerbe und verfolgt eine rege Karriere sowohl auf der Opern- als auch auf der Konzertbühne. Von 2019 bis 2021 war sie Mitglied des Jungen Ensembles der Semperoper Dresden. In der Saison 2023/24 gab sie ihr Debüt an der Deutschen Oper Berlin als Gilda (Rigoletto). Engagements führten sie u. a. mit der Partie der Violetta Valéry (La traviata) nach Busseto, Parma, Bozen, Bologna und Teneriffa. An der Opéra national de Montpellier gastierte sie mehrfach: als Gilda (Rigoletto), Nannetta (Falstaff), Norina (Don Pasquale) und Musetta (La Bohème). Als Amina (La sonnambula) war sie an den Opernhäusern von Vichy, Limoges, Clermont-Ferrand, Avignon, Metz und Reims zu erleben.

Tatiana Kuryatnikova Flora Bervoix

Domenica Radlmaier Annina

Dumitru Mîțu Alfredo Germont

Vito Priante Giorgio Germont

Peter Kirk Gastone

Peter Kirk’s current engagements include his debuts at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova and the Royal Opera House Muscat as Lysander in *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, and at the Theater an der Wien as Bart and the Goat Boy in *Where the Wild Things Are*. He recently returned to the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg as Monostatus in *The Magic Flute*, to the Opéra de Lyon as Funkchen in *Irrelohe*, and to the Grange Festival as Lysander in *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* and as Leonard Meryll in *The Yeomen of the Guard*. Peter Kir appeared at the Vienna Volksoper as Charlie Cameron in *Brigadoon* and as Tobias Ragg in *Sweeney Todd* at the Bergen National Opera. He also sang at the Grafenegg Festival under Maestro Yutaka Sado, at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, at the Opéra de Tours, and at the Nevill Holt Opera, as a Sailor in *Dido and Aeneas* at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, with the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, and as Pasek in *The Cunning Little Vixen* at the Opéra national du Rhin. Kirk made his debut with the Nederlandse Reisopera as Herr Erlanson in *Eine kleine Nachtmusik*, at the Opéra National de Lyon as Nereo in *Mefistofele*, and at the Opéra de Tours and the Nevill Holt Opera as Lysander in Britten’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*. He sang Tamino in *The Magic Flute* with the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra and the Munich Symphony Orchestra under the musical direction of David Reilandfor, and with Opera Up Close under Yutaka Sado.
Kirk took on the role of Almaviva in *Il Barbiere di Siviglia* at the Opéra Nomade and the Sailor in *Dido and Aeneas* at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. He made his critically acclaimed debut at the Royal Opera Covent Garden in 2015 as Chulak in Bruce’s *The Firework-Maker’s Daughter*. His other engagements include Judas Maccabeus with the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice, *Dichterliebe* at the Wiltshire Music Centre, Antonio in *Das Liebesverbot* at the Opéra National du Rhin, and Lysander in *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* at the Hyogo Arts Centre in Japan. Kirk has performed as Lucano in *L'incoronazione di Poppea* for the English Touring Opera, Charlie in *Mahagonny Songspiel* with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Congressional Page Two Boys for the English National Opera; he has also performed as Lysander in Britten’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, and Pasek in *The Cunning Little Vixen* with the Opéra national du Rhin.

Andrea Pellegrini Barone Douphol

Gianluca Failla Marchese d'Obigny

Felix Pacher Grenvil

Orchestra and Chorus of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

Tiroler Festspiele Erl Orchestra

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.

Tiroler Festspiele Erl Choir

Founded in 2007, the choir serves as an equal musical partner to the festival orchestra. The focus is on meticulous attention to individual parts. As part of the festival, the singers work on a wide range of projects, from a cappella programs to concert and opera productions. Since the opening of the Festspielhaus Erl in 2012, the repertoire has placed additional emphasis on bel canto works and Verdi’s operas.

The development of a Baroque choral sound in the works of Bach and his contemporaries is also a key focus of the ensemble’s work; since 2009, it has maintained close ties with Capella Minsk, the State Academic Choir of the Republic of Belarus. Founded in 1940, this choral ensemble has made it its mission to preserve Belarusian folk music and to premiere works by modern and contemporary composers.

The choir is distinguished by its precise intonation, harmony, versatility, and dynamic sound—qualities that have formed the basis for numerous tours throughout Europe in recent years. Its repertoire includes requiems, masses, cantatas, and sacred works, as well as operas. After Lyudmila Yefimova spent many years developing and shaping the choir’s quality, Olga Yanum took over as the ensemble’s director following her death in 2018.