“State Opera is there to be great”

“The Vienna State Opera is there to be great.” Bogdan Roscic, who will take up his new role as director of the house on July 1, described the task of the house under his auspices on Sunday night at ORF III when he presents his first season. It’s about global excellence and experiences that could only take place here.

In the televised presentation, which was relaxed with musical interludes and players, who, due to the crown, had taken the place of the originally scheduled audience presentation, Roscic, 56, declined to avoid a tip: “Perhaps the biggest mistake is that it is with an institution like the Viennese “. State Opera could be about never being obnoxious as an effort to utilize capacity. “

As the new musical director of Haus am Ring, Philippe Jordan will be the central partner in this way, sometimes also attracting unpleasant attention. After all, the entire music field played an important role in ensuring the quality of the State Opera, Roscic stressed, noting that the 45-year-old Swiss would spend more than half the season in Vienna.

“There is talk of everything. The last word, of course, falls on the State Opera Director, ”Jordan, who joined from Paris, described the future division of labor. A central anchor for him is, among other things, the care of Mozart, since the composer is part of the company’s DNA: “We also want to use it to build a new Mozart ensemble with which we can develop over the years ” Another joint decision is the establishment of the opera studio for young singers, for which twelve singers were selected from more than 1,000 applications.

Roscic will have a personal premiere next year, as he will attend an opera dance for the first time. “As a passionate non-dancer, life has such beautiful debuts and debuts for you,” said the 56-year-old with amusement. In any case, he stands next to the opera dance: “I see this as a production of the Vienna State Opera. And it always has to be one thing: first class. “To accomplish this, Roscic had previously indicated to the” Kronen Zeitung “that he could imagine both the end of the” Opera Ball Lady “function and the era of Richard Lugner as a Zampano. from Opera Ball.

Incidentally, friends of the musical theater in the Roscic era can expect free audiovisual broadcasts from the stage of the Vienna State Opera. The future director had already announced in journalistic interviews that the broadcast of productions in Austria would be offered free of charge in the future.