Organization

Seefestspiele Mörbisch

Singer

Tenor

Lucian Krasznec

Sandor Barinkay

Steffen Schantz

Soprano

Katrin Adel

Saffi

Harald Serafin

Conte Carnero

Baritone

Daniel Serafin

Count Peter Homonay

Bass

Wolfgang Bankl

Kalman Zsupan

Götz Zemann

Mezzo-soprano

Monika Bohinec

Czipra

Linda Plech

Mirabella

Iva Mihanovic

Arsena

Gernot Heinrich

Ottokar

Conductor

Manfred Mayrhofer

Günter Fruhmann

Stage director

Brigitte Fassbaender

Der Zigeunerbaron -  (The Gypsy Baron)

Mörbisch

Austria

Seebühne Mörbisch

At the Mörbisch Lake Festival this year, the "Gypsy Baron" will be performed, which, simply because of its content, fits perfectly into the ambience of the surrounding Burgenland landscape. "The Gypsy Baron" is one of Johann Strauss' greatest stage works. He combines the lively waltz melodies of the golden Viennese operetta era with the fiery Csárdás sounds of Hungarian folk music. Johann Strauss would have liked to have seen his work, which was conceived as a "comic opera", on an opera stage. It was only years after his death that "Der Zigeunbaron" was performed in 1910 in the Dresden Semperoper and in the Vienna State Opera, which was then called the "Hofoperntheater".
The production in Mörbisch will be performed for the first time by the director of the Tiroler Landestheater, Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbaender, who after an extraordinary career as a mezzo-soprano has also enjoyed an excellent reputation as a director for many years. The performance's soloists include tenor Lucian Krasznec (Gypsy Baron Sándor Barinkay) and soprano Evelin Novak (Saffi). Director Harald Serafin embodies the role of the strict royal commissioner Conte Carnero and his son Daniel Serafin is back in Mörbisch in the role of Count Homonay. With Wolfgang Bankl as Kálmán Zsupán, a highly valued and long-standing ensemble singer of the Vienna State Opera makes a guest appearance on the open-air stage.

Der Zigeunerbaron Strauss II,J

The Gypsy Baron

Approved

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