Nouvelles du Ballet de l'Opéra de Vienne

[Gabriele Steidler]

Ballet director Martin Schläpfer will not extend his contract beyond the 2024/2025 season. This was announced today by the Vienna State Opera.

[Gabriele Steidler]

Here are the premières of next season:

SHIFTING SYMMETRIES
23 December 2023
Venue Vienna State Opera
CONCERTANTE
Music Frank Martin
Choreography Hans van Manen
IN THE MIDDLE, SOMEWHAT ELEVATED
Music Thom Willems
Choreography William Forsythe
BRAHMS-SCHOENBERG QUARTET
Music Johannes Brahms / Arnold Schönberg

LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS
24 March 2024
Venue Vienna State Opera
Music Frédéric Chopin
Choreography & Direction John Neumeier

NUREYEV GALA
29 June 2024
Venue Vienna State Opera

THE MOON WEARS A WHITE SHIRT
12 November 2023
Venue Vienna Volksoper
DRITTES KLAVIERKONZERT
Music Alfred Schnittke
Choreography Martin Schläpfer
Piano Alina Bercu
LIGETI ESSAYS
Music György Ligeti
Choreography Karole Armitage
DANDELION WINE
Music Pietro Locatelli
Choreography Paul Taylor

LES SYLPHIDES
8 May 2024
Venue Vienna Volksoper
LES SYLPHIDES
Music Frédéric Chopin / Alexander Glazunov
Choreography Michel Fokine
EDEN (WORLD PREMIERE)
Music Franz Schubert & Arvo Pärt
Choreography Adi Hanan
JEUNEHOMME
Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choreography Uwe Scholz

[Gabriele Steidler]

[Gabriele Steidler]

Apparently, Principal dancer Denys Cherevychko has left the Staatsballett as he he is no longer listed on the website. Whether he is just taking a sabbatical year or whether he has left for good is unknown.

[Gabriele Steidler]

On Nov.9th, Liudmila Konovalova and Davide Dato will perform at the Opera House in Dubai in the Nureyev Legend and Legacy programme organized in cooperation with the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.
Dancers from Paris Opera Ballet participating in the gala will be Alice Renavand, Germain Louvet and Florian Magnenet.
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/658368777/british-ballet-project-nureyev-legend-and-legacy-to-be-staged-for-the-first-time-in-dubai

[Gabriele Steidler]

Alessandra Ferri will become the new director of the Wiener Staatsballett in September 2025!

[Alexis29]

First woman at this position in Vienna ?

[Gabriele Steidler]

The company was led by Elena Tchernichova from 1991 to 1993 and by Anne Wooliams from 1993 to 1995. Both of them were unsuccessful. That's why they stayed only for two years.

[Jonquille]

https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/die-staatsoper/medien/detail/news/alessandra-ferri-wird-naechste-direktorin-des-wiener-staatsballetts/

[Estelle]

[Gabriele Steidler]

Yes and no. Some people liked what he was doing, others didn't. According to the press release of the Staatsoper, it was his own decision not to extend his contract beyond five years.

[Gabriele Steidler]

Here's the program of the New Year's Concert 2024:
https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/en/konzerte/new-years-concert/10466/ (conductor: Christian Thielemann)
The ballet scenes will be danced by Ioanna Avraam, Elena Bottaro, Olga Esina, Giorgio Fourés, Hyo-Jung Kang, Masayu Kimoto, Ketevan Papava, Eno Peci, Brendan Saye and Zsolt Török. The choreography is by Davide Bombana.

[chien en peluche]

Thank you, Gabriele
Pour des raisons professionnelles, j'ai récemment lu deux livres écrits en japonais sur Richard Strauss, et pour écouter un peu sa musique, je viens de regarder le DVD de Josephs Legende, ballet en un acte chorégraphié par John Neumeier d'après le scénario de Harry Graf Kesseler et de Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Comme interprètes, on compte Judith Jamison, Kevin Haigen, Karl Musil et Frantz Wilhelm ainsi que le Ballet de Staatsoper de Vienne, et l'orchestre est le Wienner Philharmoniker avec Heinrich Hollreiser comme direction musicale. C'est l'enregistrement de 1977 à Vienne. J'en ai eu le DVD par hasard grâce à un des mes professeurs de français, un des grands spécialistes de Marcel Proust, Jo Yoshida, décédé prématurément en 2005.

[Gabriele Steidler]

The New Year's Concert 2025 will be conducted by Riccardo Muti.
https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/en/magazin/the-new-years-concert-2025-will-be-conducted-by-maestro-riccardo-muti/6209

[Gabriele Steidler]