Arosa Culture cooperates with Ingolstadt
The Arosa Culture Association and various institutions in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, have agreed to cooperate. The focus is on cultivating the works of the Ingolstadt composer Johann Simon Mayr (1763-1845), who also had close ties to Graubünden.
Arosa Culture has set itself the goal of Forest stage Arosa to perform an opera by Johann Simon Mayr every two years. The composer spent 1787 as a music teacher and tutor at the country estates of his Swiss patron Thomas Maria Freiherr von Bassus in Poschiavo and Tirano.
After the great success of the operetta The vinegar merchant in 2012, the time has come again in 2014. This time, however, the people of Ingolstadt will also benefit. Because the opera The miserwhich will be staged in Arosa at the end of July, will then also be performed as a guest performance in Ingolstadt.
In Ingolstadt, the President of the International Simon Mayr Society, Rainer Rupp, the Managing Director of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra in Ingolstadt, Alexander Stefan, the Deputy Cultural Officer of the City of Ingolstadt, Jürgen Köhler, and Christian Buxhofer, Managing President of Arosa Kultur, agreed on a cooperation model with this content. The opera is scheduled to be performed on August 2 and 3, 2014. The courtyard of the New Palace in Ingolstadt and Sandersdorf Palace are favored as performance venues. The Georgian Chamber Orchestra will play at both Ingolstadt performances, the rest of the cast will remain the same and Arosa will also be responsible for the musical direction and staging.
The cooperation between Arosa and Ingolstadt is not limited in time and also includes cooperation in the concert sector. The Georgian Chamber Orchestra, which has played a major role in Ingolstadt's cultural life since its exile almost 25 years ago, will therefore be able to perform in Arosa again and again in the future. However, the Arosa Festival Orchestra will continue to play at the Arosa Music Theater on the Waldbühne Arosa.
