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Following Waechter’s tragic death in March 1992, the General Secretary named Ioan Holender, former singer and owner of a singers agency, to take up the post until the end of 2010, and carry on the tradition of perhaps the best known opera institution in the world.
His programming choices cover a broad repertoire with the pillars being works by Mozart, Wagner, Verdi and Strauss along side many first performances for the House: Bellini’s I PURITANI (1993/94), Massenet’s HÉRODIADE (1994/95), Verdi’s JÉRUSALEM and Britten’s PETER GRIMES (1995/96), Verdi’s STIFFELIO and Enescu’s OEDIPE (1996/97), Rossini’s GUILLAUME TELL and Lehár’s operetta THE MERRY WIDOW (1998/99) as well as Schönberg’s DIE JAKOBSLEITER, Hiller’s PETER PAN, Donizetti’s ROBERTO DEVEREUX, Britten’s BILLY BUDD and Verdi’s NABUCCO (2000/01). A particular success of the recent past was the re-discovery of Fromental Halévy’s Grand Opéra LA JUIVE (1999). Two world premieres were included in the 1995 season; Adriana Hölszky’s DIE WÄNDE (A co-production with the Wiener Festwochen at the Theater an der Wien) and Alfred Schnittke’s GESUALDO. In addition, on 15 June 2002 a further work commissioned by the Wiener Staatsoper, DER RIESE VOM STEINFELD (Music: Friedrich Cerha, Libretto: Peter Turrini), had its world premiere to great acclaim.
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In the last few years, always on the 18th of May, the anniversary of the death of Gustav Mahler, a concert is given by the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Staatsoper. This concert was conducted in 1995 by Seiji Ozawa (who has been Music Director since the 2002/2003 season) Carlo Maria Giulini (1996), Riccardo Muti (1997), Lorin Maazel (1998), Zubin Mehta (1999), Giuseppe Sinopoli (2000) und Riccardo Muti (2001).
In the Theater an der Wien a triumphal new production of Mozart’s COSÍ FAN TUTTE was given. This Mozart-cycle under Muti was continued with DON GIOVANNI in 1999 and LE NOZZE DI FIGARO in 2001.
On the 27th of April 1995, fifty years after the proclamation of an independent Austria, a concert was given entitled ‘A House commemorates after 50 Years’ in which artists and workers of the Wiener Staatsoper who fell victim to the National Socialist dictatorship between 1938 and 1945, and during this time could not work in the house, were remembered.
The ‘Verdi Year’ in 2001 was extensively celebrated at the Wiener Staatsoper. The beginning was marked by Verdi Weeks commemorating the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death. From the 8th to the 31st of January not less than a dozen of the master’s works were performed in succession. No other opera house in the world could offer such a large number of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas in such a short period.
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