Giuseppe Verdi: LA TRAVIATA

Musical Conductor: Asher Fisch

Regie: Mariame Clément

Lighting design: Ulrik Gad

Violetta Valéry: Julia Muzychenko
Flora Bervoix: Tatiana Kuryatnikova
Annina: Domenica Radlmaier
Alfredo Germont: Dumitru Mîțu
Giorgio Germont: Vito Priante
Gastone: Peter Kirk
Barone Douphol: Gianluca Margheri
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

Ulrik Gad Lighting design

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

Zu den aktuellen Engagements von Peter Kirk gehören seine Debüts am Teatro Carlo Felice di Genove und am Royal Opera House Muscat als Lysander Midsummer Night's Dream und am Theater an der Wien als Bart- & Ziegenkerl Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen. Kürzlich kehrte er an die Opera du Rhin in Straßburg als Monostatus in Die Zauberflote, an die Opera de Lyon als Funkchen Irrelohe und zum Grange Festival als Lysander Sommernachtstraum und als Leonard Meryll The Yeomen of the Guard zurück. Peter Kir trat an der Wiener Volksoper als Charlie Cameron Brigadoon und als Tobias Ragg Sweeney Todd an der Nationaloper Bergen auf. Außerdem sang er beim Grafenegg Festival unter Maestro Yutaka Sado, in der Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh, an der Opera de Tours und der Nevill Holt Opera, als Matrose Dido und Aeneas beim Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, mit dem Wiener Tonkünstler Orchester, den Münchner Symphonikern und als Pasek Das schlaue Füchslein an der Opéra national du Rhin. Kirk debütierte an der Nederlandse Reisopera als Herr Erlanson in Eine kleine Nachtmusik, an der Opéra National de Lyon als Nereo in Mefistofele und an der Opera de Tours und der Nevill Holt Opera als Lysander in Brittens Ein Sommernachtstraum. Er sang Tamino in Die Zauberflöte mit dem Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester und den Münchner Symphonikern unter der musikalischen Leitung von David Reilandfor und mit der Opera Up Close unter Yutaka Sado. Kirk übernahm die Rolle des Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia an der Opéra Nomade und den Matrosen in Dido and Aeneas beim Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Sein von der Kritik gefeiertes Debüt an der Royal Opera Covent Garden gab er 2015 als Chulak in Bruce's The Firework-Maker's Daughter. Zu seinen weiteren Engagements zählen Judas Maccabeus mit der Schlesischen Philharmonie in Kattowitz, Dichterliebe am Wiltshire Music Centre, Antonio in Das Liebesverbot an der Opera National du Rhin und Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream am Hyogo Arts Centre, Japan. Kirk hat Lucano in L'incoronazione di Poppea für die English Touring Opera, Charlie in Mahagonny Songspiel mit dem London Philharmonic Orchestra und Congressional Page Two Boys für die English National Opera, Lysander in Brittens A Midsummer Night's Dream in der Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh, Pasek in The Cunning Little Vixen mit der l'Opéra national du Rhin gespielt.

Gianluca Margheri 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.