Program:

Ouvertures, Arias and Duets from Mozart Operas:
The Marriage of Figaro
Don Giovanni
Cosí fan tutte
The Magic Flute
Possible are also works from Strauss-Dynasty and Musicals
in the second part of the concert!

Program is also possible with 3 Singers.
All programes can also be performed with the
“Salzburg Chamber Orchestra”/ Conductor Harald Nerat.

LIGHT-HEARTED MOZART IN
HISTORICAL COSTUMES

Program - Example
MOZARTSERENADEN-ENSEMBLE
MARIA HAUSER, Sopran     THOMAS RUF, Bariton


Figaros Hochzeit
Ouverture
„Crudel! per chè finora? - Duett Susanna/Graf
„Deh vieni non tardar“ - Rezitativ und Arie der Susanna
Menuett aus dem Flötenquartett A-Dur KV 298
„Voi che sapete“ – Canzona des Cherubino
Allegro aus dem Flötenquartett C-Dur KV 285b

Don Giovanni
„La ci darem la mano“ - Duett Don Giovanni/Zerlina
„Vedrai carino“ - Arie der Zerlina
„Die Warnung“ KV 433
Alla turca aus der Klaviersonate KV 331
„Nun, liebes Weibchen“ - Duett KV 625

P a u s e ***

Die Zauberflöte
Ouverture
„Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja“ – Arie des Papageno
„Wie stark ist nicht Dein Zauberton“
„Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen“ - Duett Pamina / Papageno
„Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen“
„Papagena! Papagena“ - Arie des Papageno
„Pa-pa-pa“ - Duett Papageno / Papagena
Finale – Presto

Encores:
Joh. Strauß – Annenpolka (Maria Hauser, Sopran)
Jos. Strauß – „Im Fluge“ op- 230 (Polka schnell)
Joh. Strauß Vater – Ballnacht-Galopp op. 86
C. Porter – „Wonderful“ /„Kiss me Kate (Maria Hauser, Sopran & Thomas Ruf, Bariton)


MOZARTSERENADEN-ENSEMBLE
The „Mozartserenaden-Ensemble“ was founded in 1986 to perform the works of Mozart and the Viennese Classical Period. Founder and artistic manager of this ensemble is the conductor and viola player Harald Nerat. To guarantee a high level of performance the Salzburger Mozart-Serenaden unit outstanding musicians from Salzburg but also internationally famous soloists. Concerts in Salzburg as well as overseas including Japan are on regularly.
Mainly - but not only - music by Mozart and his contemporaries from Quartet to chamber orchestra is on the program. The Light-Hearted Mozart in Historical Costumes is a very successfully operating event performed by this ensemble.
In 1999 the premiere of this production took place during a tour in Japan.

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE SINGERS

MARIA HAUSER
1981 - 1989 studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg (Highschool for Music in Salzburg)
1987 Exam for teaching soloist, award for artistic performance (award donated by the
Ministry for Education & Art)
1988 diploma for Song and Oratorium.
Prize winner at the competition „Jugend musiziert“ in Leoben (1987)
Austrian representative at the European Music Contest in Chimay (Belgium, 1993).
Masterclass for German Songs by Hartmut Hoell and Mitsuko Shirai at the International
Summer academy in Salzburg in 1993.
Concerts in Austria, Germany and other countries.
Soloist for the “Salzburger Dommusik”, the „Salzburger Adventserenaden“, member of the
production „Light-hearted Mozart“ in historical costumes (Japan 1999).


Maria Hauser, Soprano
         

THOMAS RUF
born in Munich, studied at the Salzburger Mozarteum, opera and concert singer,
exams with honors.
First opera engagement at the „Stadttheater Augsburg“.
Extensive concertengagaments with widely spread repertoire, Renaissance and up to 20th
century, as well as many song recitals including all famous cycles of songs all over Europe,
Japan and the US.
Soloist at various international festivals (Rheingau Musikfestival, EXPO Hannover, Bodensee
Festival, Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad, Kulturtage Salzburg, Baroque Festival Varazdin),
premieres presenting contemporary music, CD -, TV - and Radio recordings
.
   
Thomas Ruf, Baritone