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Concert master/orchestra:
Ulla Baur
[email protected]
Conductor:
Arno Jochem de La Rosée
[email protected]
Organisation:
Adrian Dunskus
[email protected]
Joseph Schuster, forgotten genius
died 200 years ago in 2012
“I send my sister herewith six duets for clavicembalo [harpsichord]and violin
by Schuster,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote in 1777, adding: “If I stay on, I
shall write six myself in the same style, as they are very popular here”. The
music written by these two great composers was in parts so much alike that
some of Joseph Schuster’s string quartets were for a long time considered to be
Mozart’s “Milan quartets”. The error only came to light in 1966.
In his day, Schuster was highly regarded in his capacity as “Royal Saxon
Kapellmeister” in Dresden, Germany. Up to the middle of the 18th century,
Dresden ranked among the wealthiest and politically most influential cities in
Europe and fostered the arts at court accordingly. After losing the Seven Years’
War in 1763, Saxony suffered financial hardships, but Dresden remained a
leader in the field of music. During his lifetime, Schuster was a celebrity, feted
throughout Europe as one of the best opera composers of the time. His work is
complex, fresh and rich.
After his death in 1812, however, Schuster’s work faded into obscurity and was
only rediscovered by the German violinist Ulla Baur a few years ago. With her
orchestra “La Ciaccona”, she has made a highly acclaimed recording of
Schuster’s opera Demofoonte for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and her staged
performances of Amor e Psiche at the festivals of Early Music in Dresden and
Regensburg were also a great success.
The music world is now about to rediscover Schuster’s opera Il marito
indolente, coinciding with the bicentenary of the composer’s death in 2012.
The characters:
METILDA
Dorothee Mields
TRANQUILLO, her husband
Günter Papendell
LUCINA, Tranquillo’s sister
Marie Friederike Schöder
FULGENZIO, Tranquillo’s uncle
REGINELLA, the servant
Markus Flaig
Constanze Backes
GRAF BELSOSPIRO, suitor of Metilda’s
IL TENENTE, suitor of Metilda’s
LA CIACCONA
Andreas Post
Jörg Waschinski
concert master: Ulla Baur
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dominik Wilgenbus
HARPSICHORD and RÉPÉTITEUR
CONDUCTOR
Robert Schröter
Arno Jochem de La Rosée
(subject to alterations)
Dorothee Mields
Günter Papendell
Marie Fried. Schöder
Markus Flaig
Dorothee Mields studied singing in
Bremen and Stuttgart. A major focus
of her work is 17th and 18th century
music, as are contemporary
compositions. Her repertoire
includes works by Monteverdi, Bach
and Mozart, through to ones by
Boulez, Grisey and Beat Furrer. In
2008, she performed Grisey’s Quatre
chants at the Salzburg Festival with
the Klangforum Wien and Emilio
Pomárico. She has recorded more
than 40 works, some of them
winning awards and is a regular
guest at the Bach Festival in Leipzig,
the Suntory Music Foundation
Festival, the Boston Early Music
Festival, the Festival van
Vlaanderen, the Wiener
Festwochen, the Handel Festival in
Halle and Göttingen, as well as the
Tanglewood Festival.
She regularly works with the
Collegium Vocale Gent, the Bach
Collegium Japan, the Nederlandse
Bachvereniging, the Flanders
Recorder Quartett, the Klangforum
Wien, the Sirius Viols, L’Orfeo
baroque orchestra and with
conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Beat
Furrer, Philippe Herreweghe,
Gustav Leonhardt, Kenneth
Montgomery, Hans Christoph
Rademann, Stephen Stubbs,
Masaaki Suzuki and Jos van
Veldhoven.
Born in Krefeld (Germany), the
baritone Günter Papendell concluded
his training at Munich’s Academy of
Music in 2005 as a master class student
of Daphne Evangelatos. He was a
finalist and an award winner at the
annual ARD (German Public Radio)
Music Contest, the Willi Domgraff
Fassbaender Competition and the
Belvedere Singing Contest. As a
concert singer, he has performed at
festivals such as the “Schwäbischer
Frühling” in Germany, the Mondsee
Festival in Austria, the Sagra Musicale
Umbra in Italy and Chicago’s Ravinia
Festival. He has worked with Helmut
Deutsch and Marcello Viotti, the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Orchestra. He was nominated “Young
singer of the year” in 2002 for his
renditions of Mozart. In 2004 he
became a member of the ensemble of
the Musiktheater im Revier
Gelsenkirchen, where he not only
appeared in the roles for lyrical
baritone, but also embodied parts such
as Don Giovanni, Escamillo and Zurga
in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles. He
has been a guest artist at the
Bayerische Staatsoper and the
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in
Munich as well as at the Staatstheater
in Mannheim, Mainz and Weimar, in
Dortmund, Bonn and at the Komische
Oper in Berlin. He has been a member
of the latter’s ensemble since 2007 and
has sung Marcel, Count Almavia,
Guglielmo, Dr. Falke and Malatesta.
Tobias Meisberger has been
Papendell’s private singing teacher for
17 years.
Marie Friederike Schöder first
appeared on stage at the age of four.
She went on to study with Juliane
Claus at the Music Institute at the
Martin Luther University in HalleWittenberg (Germany). Since 2006,
she has been a private voice student
of Krisztina Laki. From the age of
ten, she was trained as a dancer and
was European vice-champion in solo
show dancing in 2000. She received
first prize in the opera category at
the regional contest in North-RhineWestphalia as qualification for the
Federal Contest. She has attended
master courses held by Julie
Kaufmann, Ruth Ziesak, Barbara
Schlick and Peter Schreier. Her first
engagement was at the NordharzerStädtebund-Theater in Halberstad,
appearing as Ännchen in Freischütz,
Anna Reich in The Merry Wives of
Windsor, Valencienne in The Merry
Widow, Christel in Der Vogelhändler
and Marie in Zar und Zimmermann
to name but a few roles. At the same
time, she has continued to work in
Early Music, appearing, for instance,
as Angelica in George Fredric
Handel’s Orlando. Marie Friederike
Schöder won first prize at the
International Bach Competition in
Leipzig in 2008.
Markus Flaig first studied school
music and church music at the
Academy of Music in Freiburg im
Breisgau (Germany). He then took
voice lessons from Beata HeuerChristen and was a member of the
opera class of Gerd Heinz. This was
followed by advanced courses with
Berthold Possemeyer in Frankfurt
am Main, which he completed with
distinction. Since autumn 2006 he
has worked with Carol MeyerBruetting in Frankfurt. Flaig was
subsequently signed as a guest artist
by the Städtische Bühnen in
Freiburg for the part of Azarias in
Benjamin Britten’s The burning fiery
furnace, for the first performance of
Cornelius Schwehr’s opera Heimat
in memory of the Baden Revolution
1848/49, for Salome by Richard
Strauss and for the part of Noah in
Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s fludde.
He has performed madrigals by
Claudio Monteverdi and Carlo
Gesualdo at the Schwetzingen
Festival in Germany, in Henry
Purcell’s Fairy Queen at the Festival
Week Herrenhausen in Hanover and
at the Margravial Opera House in
Bayreuth as Alcée and Tirtée in JeanPhilippe Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé.
Flaig has recorded numerous CDs
with renowned conductors. Concert
tours have taken him halfway
around the globe. He has also been a
prize winner at the International
Bach Competition in Leipzig.
Constanze Backes
Andreas Post
Jörg Waschinski
Dominik Wilgenbus
Constanze Backes studied singing at
the Folkwang Music Academy in Essen
(Germany) and as a private student of
Karin Mitzscherling in Dresden and
Jessica Cash in London. In 1996 she was
awarded the prestigious Lady Nixon
award for promising young singers.
She has been a member of the
Monteverdi Choir, under whose
conductor John Eliot Gardiner she
performed in international opera
productions at the Théâtre du Chatelet
in Paris, Teatro Reggio in Parma, the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the
Ludwigsburg Festival in Germany,
appearing as Barbarina in Le Nozze di
Figaro, Valletto in L’incoronazione di
Poppea and Papagena in The Magic
Flute. She has been a guest artist at
Berlin’s Hebbel-Theater, the
Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth,
the Ruhr-Triennale (Purcell’s King
Arthur), the Festspielhaus in BadenBaden and the Schwetzingen Festival
in Germany and the Festival in
Feldkirch, Austria.
As a member of the Musica Fiata, the
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam and the
Alte Musik Dresden ensemble, she has
participated in numerous CD
productions. She has made further
recordings with conductors such as
Paul McCreesh, Robert King, René
Jacobs, Simon Standage, Ludger Remy,
Thomas Hengelbrock and Eduardo
Lopez Banzo.
Andreas Post received his first singing
lessons from Alastair Thompson. He
went on to study with K. Soto
Papulkasr at the Folkwang Music
Academy in Essen, taking up school
music before switching to musical
theatre and voice. He earned his
artistic degree and subsequently
passed his concert exam with
distinction. Following this he worked
with Norman Shetler on a scholarship
from the Schubert Gesellschaft in
Duisburg, followed by a scholarship
from the Richard-Wagner-Verband in
Cologne. His busy concert career has
taken him all across Europe and led
him to work with renowned
conductors and famous orchestras. He
is much in demand as a guest artist at
international festivals such as the
Telemann Festival in Magdeburg, the
Dresden Music Festival, the Early
Music Festival in Regensburg, the
Handel Festival in Halle, the Festival
van Vlanderen in Bruges or recently as
Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at
the festival in Gut Immling near
Munich.
In 1998, he received second prize at the
11th International Bach Competition in
Leipzig and a special award from the
MDR (a unit of German Public Radio).
Berlin-born Jörg Waschinski
represents the third generation of
counter singers. He was the first male
soprano to study with Renate Faltin at
the Academy of Music “Hanns Eisler”
in Berlin. Today, Waschinski is a
popular guest artist at all of the major
opera houses and has quickly emerged
as a favourite both with the public and
with the critics. He has worked with
renowned conductors such as Ton
Koopman, Frieder Bernius, Reinhard
Goebel, Michael Hofstetter, Jos van
Veldhoven, John Fiore and Christoph
Spering, as well as respected artistic
directors including Philipp
Himmelmann, Dietrich
Hilsdorf, Georges Delnon, Franziska
Severin, and Frank-Patrick Steckel.
In early 2009, a co-production between
Phoenix Edition and Deutschlandradio
Kultur resulted in publication of a solo
CD with Waschinski’s interpretation of
lieder by Clara Schumann in a version
for string quartet, and Farao brought
out a CD with hitherto unpublished
Handel cantatas. Autumn 2009 saw
publication of a further solo CD,
featuring songs by the American
composer Amy Beach performed with
the Meininger Trio and distributed by
Phoenix Edition, again in coproduction with Deutschlandradio
Kultur.
Dominic Wilgenbus studied music
theatre and artistic direction under
August Everding in Munich. He plays
the piano, the oboe and the cello, has
had singing lessons and was trained as
a conductor and composer. Today, he
works as a freelance director,
translator and writer as well as a
lecturer at the Music College
Nuremburg-Augsburg. He is a cofounder of the Metropoltheater and
the Kammeroper in Munich.
His work has taken him to many
places, including Meiningen (The
Comedian Harmonists, The Black
Rider), Dortmund (e.g. Hänsel und
Gretel; La Bohème), Klagenfurt
(Wiener Blut, Don Pasquale, Into the
Woods), Leipzig (e.g. Die schöne
Helena, Zar und Zimmermann at the
Musikalische Komödie), the Volksoper
in Vienna (Die Herzogin von Chicago,
DVD distributed by Capriccio), the
Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich (La
gazza ladra) and Chemnitz (Rusalka at
the opera house). His work Heidi – das
Heimatmusical has been part of the
repertoire in Leipzig for more than six
consecutive years. He has performed
his literary-musical solo programme
“Mein Wagner” since 1997.
Ulla Baur
Robert Schröter
Arno Jochem de La Rosée
Adrian Dunskus
Ulla Baur studied the violin under
Irmgard Gahl at the Mozarteum in
Salzburg, then the baroque violin at
the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague
under Sigiswald Kuijken, concluding
her studies with a diploma. Following
this, she was a member of numerous
baroque orchestras. In subsequent
years her busy career as a soloist and
concert master took her all across
Europe. She has participated in a large
number of CD, radio and TV recordings
both in Germany and abroad.
Since 2000, she has taken a special
interest in the orchestra “La Ciaccona”
which she founded. Through her
scholarly work, Ulla Baur came upon
the forgotten opera Demofoonte by
Joseph Schuster, for which she was
able to secure the partnership of
Bayerischer Rundfunk (a unit of
German Public Radio) and
Deutschlandradio. The production was
published by Deutsche Harmonia
Mundi (BMG). It was followed by the
staged performance of Amor e Psiche
by Joseph Schuster at the Festival in
Dresden and the Early Music Festival
in Regensburg. Ulla Baur has since
rediscovered additional operas and
oratorios by Schuster as well as all of
his harpsichord concerts, editing them
in modern scores.
Robert Schröter (Munich) is at home
on historic keyboards (especially
harpsichords and organs) and can
occasionally be heard playing the
piano. He studied harpsichord and
piano in Munich and Basel under
Thomas Böckeler, Michael Eberth and
Jörg-Andreas Bötticher. He has
received awards in international
competitions such as the one in Bruges
and at the Bach Competition in
Leipzig, which resulted in his being
signed as official accompanist at the
Bach Competition. He has made CD
and radio recordings for Sony BMG
and Bayerischer Rundfunk (a unit of
German Public Radio) among others.
He has worked with Reinhard Goebel,
the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra and the Bavarian Chamber
Philharmonic. He is a lecturer at the
Academy of Music in Munich and at
Munich University. Together with the
singer Andreas Pehl, Schröter has
formed the “ensemble raccanto”, which
over the past eight years has
performed more than 10 different
concert programmes on stage covering
different subjects, one performance
taking place at the Bach Festival in
Leipzig. Their CD “Il Sassone” has also
earned them plaudits with both critics
and the public.
Born in 1955 in Trier (Germany), Arno
Jochem de La Rosée studied viola da
gamba, baroque cello and ensemble at
the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis,
receiving his diploma in 1991 from
Christophe Coin. As gambist, cellist
and conductor, he has been invited to
almost every country in Europe, the
USA, Israel, Egypt and Syria to perform
both as a soloist and as a chamber
musician with renowned early music
ensembles in concerts, on the radio
and on TV. In addition he has made
more than 80 CD recordings, among
them a Bach-Goldberg jazz album with
Uri Caine and a film score specially
composed for him by Annette Focks
(e.g. Krabat). His special love is for the
gamba quartet Concerto di Viole,
which he initiated (with Andreas
Scholl, Emma Kirkby, Kai Wessel,
Monika Mauch et al.) and with which
he has performed several
contemporary works by Tan Dun et al.
His work in micro interval systems has
led Arno Jochem de La Rosée to involve
himself with non-western tonal
systems and their expressive potential,
then with Arabian music in theory and
in practice. He spent 1991 to 2000 in
Luxemburg and Paris, spending two
years as a viola da gamba teacher at the
conservatory in Metz and holding
courses on instrumental and concert
practice of the 15th through 19th
centuries in Germany, France, Austria
and Syria. Publications, translations
and lectures round off his field of
activity.
Adrian Dunskus was born in 1959 in
Urbana (Ill.), USA, and grew up in a
trilingual environment (German,
French and English) in the US, France,
Britain and Germany. During his high
school years at the German School in
Tokyo, he was able to add Japanese to
that. Trained as a banker and with a
degree in economics, he spent ten
years as an economics and business
editor for Bayerischer Rundfunk (a
unit of German Public Radio). He has
been a freelance corporate
communications consultant and writer
since 1995. In 2001, he played an
advisory role in the Bayerischer
Rundfunk’s production of
Demofoonte. In his free time, he sings
with the Heinrich-Schütz-Ensemble
under Zoltàn Ambrus in Freising, and,
following a 37-year hiatus, has taken up
piano lessons again. He lives with his
family in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm
north of Munich.
Contact for La Ciaccona:
Adrian Dunskus
Unternehmenskommunikation
Schleiferweg 8
85276 Pfaffenhofen
Tel.: +49-8441-400 9130
[email protected]