Sold-out concert by the Vienna Boys’ Choir on June 6th as part of the newly created additional program KulturBURG.
The Vienna Boys’ Choir is a piece of Austrian cultural history and a living tradition. To experience this world-famous boys’ choir, which has been active for over 500 years, in the Gars Babenbergerburg, which is over 1,000 years old – that is a perfect combination and I am very happy that I was able to experience this top-class cultural event in the first year of my directorship and just in time for the opera’s 35th birthday BURG GARS succeeded
KS. Clemens Unterreiner, director of the BURG GARS opera
Gars am Kamp (OTS) – „The Vienna Boys’ Choir is a piece of Austrian cultural history and a living tradition. To experience this world-famous boys’ choir, which has been active for over 500 years, in the Gars Babenbergerburg, which is over 1,000 years old – that is a perfect combination and I am very happy that I was able to experience this top-class cultural event in the first year of my directorship and just in time for the opera’s 35th birthday BURG GARS succeeded
“emphasized Steward KS. Clemens Unterreiner on the occasion of the concert evening of the Vienna Boys’ Choir in the newly adapted ballroom of the opera BURG GARS.
With the musical excellence for which the Vienna Boys’ Choir is known all over the world, the Bruckner Choir under the direction of the Italian-born Manolo Cagnin captivated the Gars audience within just a few seconds. The spirited conductor and his ensemble served the guests a wealth of musical pearls across the centuries and genres of global music creation. The program included Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s immortal “A Little Night Music”, Giuseppe Verdi’s brilliant prisoners’ choir from the opera “Nabucco” and the world-famous melody “O Fortuna, Ruler of the World” from Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” as well as Ennio Morricone’s film music hit “Nella Fantasia” and “Thank you for the Music” by all-time pop great ABBA.
A highly successful premiere by the Vienna Boys’ Choir in the Gars am Kamp festival venue, which was rewarded with enthusiastic applause from the audience – including Mayor Martin Falk and numerous personalities from Lower Austria and Vienna.
Program centerpiece “L’elisir d’amore” – “The Love Potion”
The next highlights of the KulturBURG include Intendant Clemens Unterreiner, who invites you to a reading dedicated to the Babenbergs and the Habsburgs with ORF III imperial house expert Katrin Unterreiner and the emperor’s great-great-grandson Leopold Altenburg (June 15).
Love, passion and an extra dose of Italo charm await on the spectacular and acoustically unamplified natural stage with Donizetti’s summer opera hit “The Love Potion” from July 13th – this year for the first time and unique among Austria’s festivals with an inclusive opera experience for blind and visually impaired people with live audio description As part of the regular love potion performance on August 1st.
All highlights of the opera BURG GARS – season 2024: www.operburggars.at
Questions & Contact:
BURG GARS Opera, Hauptplatz 80, 3571 Gars am Kamp, E: press@operburggars.at, W: https://operburggars.at/presse/