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German conductor Wolfgang Wengenroth opens the 2023/2024 season of the Swedish Malmö Opera with Mozart's Don Giovanni on October 7, 2023.
The premiere on October 7 is the first of a series of performances of the popular Da Ponte opera, which will extend into December.
The production, originally staged by Paul-Émile Fourny, was revised by Anselmi Hirvonen. South African baritone Jacques Imbrailo takes on the title role, with Henning von Schulman as Leporello, Matilda Sterby as Donna Anna and Rachael Wilson as Donna Elvira.
Wolfgang Wengenroth will conduct all performances. He is a welcome guest in the city at the Oresund where he celebrated a great success with Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
“[…] German conductor Wolfgang Wengenroth and the Malmö Opera Orchestra underline all the finesses in the score, and on stage they operate smoothly in the same spirit.” (Aftonbladet, Sweden 10/04/2021)
With passion and precision, Wengenroth convinces in his vast opera, concert and ballet repertoire.
He regularly conducts at the major Scandinavian houses. After a successful debut with The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, he was invited back for Madama Butterfly. He also returned to Copenhagen for The Magic Flute, to Malmö for La Traviata and to Gothenburg for Swan Lake.
He began 2023 with Mozart's Magic Flute at the Dutch Reisopera Enschede with further performances in Maastricht, Arnheim and Utrecht. Engagements then took him back to South America for concerts in San Juan and Rosario. He also returned to the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
Wengenroth, who at the beginning of his career worked with Kirill Petrenko at the Komische Oper Berlin also became his assistant for the Ring at the Bayreuth Festival. Since then, he conducted numerous opera and concert performances in cities such as Leipzig, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Wiesbaden and Hannover and led the Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras of Giessen, Bremen, Frankfurt as well as the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Internationally he conducted symphony concerts e.g. in Bern, Norrköping, Tehran, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe as well as in La Paz, Bolivia.
Wolfgang Wengenroth has been a professor at the University of Music and Art in Graz, Austria, since 2016. He is also committed to supporting young musicians in projects abroad in countries such as Bolivia, Argentina, and Iran.
Performance dates Don Giovanni:
October 07, 10, 14 and 22
November 15, 17, 19, 24 and 26
December 01, 03, 06, 08, 10, 15 and 17
links:
https://www.malmoopera.se/forestallningar/don-giovanni
https://wolfgangwengenroth.com
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