Pawel Markowicz, conductor and member of the Vienna Singverein, conducted the Men´s chorus of the Vienna State Opera Chorus in the Salzburg Festival's production of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's ‘The Idiot’, which won the OPER! AWARD for best production.
Our warmest congratulations!
The current issue of "Musikfreunde" magazine features a report on the Vienna Singverein and its upcoming concerts in March 2025. Five interviews with members of the choir provide a brief insight into what makes the Singverein so fascinating.
Curious? Read more here (only in German):
Johannes Prinz conducted a choral organ concert upon the invitation of the Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid on 8 February 2025. The concert in the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid offered a challenging programme with works by Kodály and Britten, performed by the Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid (Artistic Director: Josep Vila i Casaña) and David Malet on the organ.
You can find the full programme here:
On Sunday, January 19, 2025, Ö1 had broadcast the “Johann Strauss Memorial Concert” from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein. Oksana Lyniv was conducting the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra and numerous soloists such as Miriam Kutrowatz, Anna Prohaska, Anna Lucia Richter and Johannes Bamberger were performing alongside the Vienna Singverein.
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Between December 12 and 18, 2024, the Wiener Singverein performed Arthur Honegger's large-scale dramatic oratorio “Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher”, which retells the story of the French resistance fighter and national heroine Joan of Arc, four times in the famous concert halls of Frankfurt, Paris, Vienna and Hamburg.
On May 1, 2025, Axel Hiller (bass in the Vienna Singverein) will take over the management of the “Concert and Media” department at the Salzburg Festival.
Our warmest congratulations!
The celebratory concert for Arnold Schönberg's 150th birthday on September 13, 2024 was broadcast by ORF III and is available at the following link:
Gurre-Lieder auf ORF III
from "Musikfreund, March 2024":
"Away from the heavy choir, towards the lighter, transparent sound that is in demand internationally today" - this is the motto of the success story of the Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna under the direction of Johannes Prinz. On March 10, there will be a reunion in the large Musikvereinssaal under his baton.