Suppé: Overtures Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Ivan Repušić

• Franz von Suppé (1819 - 1895):
• 1Die schöne Galathée: Overture07:21
• 2Dichter und Bauer: Overture09:14
• 3Boccaccio: Overture07:17
• 4Leichte Kavallerie: Overture06:41
• 5Banditenstreiche: Overture06:19
• 6Pique Dame: Overture07:19
• 7Die Frau Meisterin: Overture07:11
• 8Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in Wien: Overture08:07
• Total Runtime59:29

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Directly after Johann Strauss the Younger, Franz von Suppé is one of the most famous Austrian composers of the 19th century to have paid special tribute to the so-called light muse. His oeuvre includes nearly three dozen operettas and light operas as well as countless farces and comedies, which he loosened up by framing them with musical numbers. This was the typical repertoire of Old Viennese folk theatre, which he imaginatively enriched in his various capacities as Kapellmeister at the Theater in der Josefstadt and as ""chief composer and conductor"" at the Theater an der Wien, as well as on other stages of the Austrian capital later on. His most famous operettas are ""The Beautiful Galatea"" (1865), ""Fatinitza"" (1876) and ""Boccaccio"" (1879). Although most of his stage works have now been forgotten, his sparkling, animated, captivating and thrilling overtures are supremely vivacious, conveying this composers skill, his imagination in inventing catchy melodies, and also his creative abilities where design or instrumentation are concerned. Overtures such as ""Light Cavalry"", ""Poet and Peasant"" or ""Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna"" were indispensable parts of Viennese operettas golden age and have remained a regular feature of the citys musical life (e.g. the Vienna New Year's Concerts) to this day. As Chief Conductor of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repuic has selected some of Suppés best-known and most popular overtures for his new studio production. This album is paving the way for next years 200th anniversary of the composers birth.

Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Ivan Repušić, direction

Ivan Repušić
Croatian conductor Ivan Repušić (1978) made his debut in 2011 at the Deutsche Oper with Puccini's opera La bohème, becoming the Kapellmeister for that distinguished institution the following season, and has since conducted numerous operas, including Tosca, A Masked Ball, Traviata, Macbeth, The Magic Flute, Lucia di Lammermoor, etc.

From 2010 to 2013, he served as the first Kapellmeister of the Staatsoper Hannover, where he successfully conducted performances of operas Falstaff, Otello, Tannhäuser, Eugene Onegin, La bohème, Carmen, The Obduction from the Seraglio, Faust and many others. He also made successful debuts and continued conducting at other important German opera houses, such as the Hamburg State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, and Staatsoper Hannover.

He has conducted all the major Croatian orchestras and opera ensembles, as well as the Berlin Deutsche Oper, Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan, Prague Symphony Orchestra, the State Opera Orchestra Hannover, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, etc. He performed at all the major Croatian festivals, as well as held guest performances at numerous European halls and festivals, including the famous Musikverein in Vienna, Baden Baden Festspielehaus, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Smetana Hall in Prague, and Festival Verdi Parma.

Ivan Repušić studied conducting at the Zagreb Music Academy with Igor Gjadrov and Vjekoslav Šutej, continuing his studies with renowned conductors such as Jorma Panula and Gianluigi Gelmetti, as well as assisting Kazushi Ono (Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe) and Donald Runnicles (Deutsche Oper Berlin). He began conducting in 2002, as conductor and from 2006 to 2008 as Opera Director at the Croatian National Theatre Split which resulted in an array of successful opera performances, such as Don Carlos, Aida, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, La bohème, Manon Lescaut, Simon Boccanegra, Nabucco, Pagliacci, Eugene Onegin, etc. He was Music Director of the Split Summer Festival from 2006 to 2009, and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival from 2010 to 2012. Since 2005, he has been Chief Conductor of the Zadar Chamber Orchestra.

He was the recipient of some of the most prestigious awards in Croatia.

Beside his conducting endeavors, Repušić continually pursues his pedagogical work as Adjunct Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Split. His upcoming performances include Deutsche Oper Berlin (Tosca, Lucia di Lammermoor, Turandot, Traviata), Semperoper Dresden (Simon Boccanegra), Hamburg State Opera (La bohème), Aalto Musiktheater Essen (Falstaff), Nationaltheater Mannheim (Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci), concerts with Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Brussels Philharmonic, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra and many others.

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