– EMI/VIRGIN CLASSICS, Vivaldi, “La Merope o l’Oracolo in Messenia”/ Licisco, Fabio Biondi/Europa Galante, CD September 2012.
–Theater Basel, Händel, Ariodante, Andrea Marcon/La Cetra Barockorchester:
“Franziska Gottwald brilliert als Ariodante” www.nachtkritik.de
–Oper Köln, Palladium, Händel, Alcina /Ruggiero, dir.Peter Neumann.
Anna Maria Heinreich was born in Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Vienna.
Over the past decades her work as costumes designer includes theatre productions for the Salburger Festspiele, as well as different productions in Italy and throughout Europe.
The most significant theatre productions are with Peter Stein, she designed therefore: for the Faust Ensemble in Berlin Pancomedia, for the Edinburgh Festival Seagull with Fiona Shaw and Killian Murphy, Troilus and Cressida, La brocca rotta for Berliner Ensemble with Klaus Maria Brandauer.
Her diverse works in the field of opera includes productions like, Prometeo of Luigi Nono at Theatre alla Scala in Milan and at Venice Biennale, Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Ferrara Musica, both conducted by Claudio Abbado and directed by Stefano Vizioli as well as numerous productions with him, such as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera of Saint Louis and in Sant Gallen, and Simon Boccanegra at Santa Fe Opera Festival and at Fundación Ópera De Oviedo. In addition again with Stefano Vizioli, she designs Norma at Ravenna Festival led by Riccardo Muti; Motezuma by Vivaldi at Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos de Lisboa, conductor Alain Curtis, with further revivals in Bilbao and in Italy in Ferrara, Modena and Piacenza, revivals of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opera de Toulouse and Teatro Regio in Parma, Madama Butterfly at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.
She has an intense collaboration with Peter Stein for Opera productions consisting of Tat’jana for the Teatro alla Scala, Parsifal for Osterfestspiele Salzburg led by Claudio Abbado, Mazeppa, Eugenio Oniegin and Pique Dame at Opera de Lyon. In Lyon she designed also the costumes of L’Incoronazione di Poppea led by William Christie. Eugenio Oniegin production will be revived at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova led by Juanjo Mena.
Her credits in television and film include productions for French and Italian television, like Esercizi di stile ,directed by Mario Monicelli, the Italian film La Donna della Luna, with Greta Scacchi, and Viol@, directed by Donatella Majorca, with Stefania Rocca.
She took care of the new production of Fidelio conducted by Claudio Abbado and directed by Chris Kraus in Reggio Emilia, in coproduction with Teatro Real Madrid, Baden Baden Festspielhaus, Ferrara and Modena.
Furthermore, with Peter Stein director, she was engaged in the new productions of Il prigioniero by Luigi Dallapiccola and Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók at Teatro alla Scala, in coproduction with Amsterdam De Nederlandse Opera; Die Nase at Opernhaus Zurich, conductor Ingo Metzmacher; Macbeth led by Riccardo Muti at Salzburger Festspiele and recently at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.
Alessandro De Marchi appears regularly in many of the major Theatres and Festivals worldwide and he is regarded as a leading specialist for period performance, whether on historic or modern instruments, with a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi, Cavalli, Vivaldi and Händel, to Keiser, Pergolesi and Hasse, to Haydn, Mozart and Cimarosa. Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti.
Among the productions conducted by Alessandro De Marchi are: Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, Graun’s Cleopatra and Caesar, Bach’s Kunst der Fuge, Haydn’s L’isola disabitata, and Rossini’s il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin, Don Giovanni, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Giulio Ccesare , Der lächerliche Prinz Jodelet by Keiser at Hamburgische Staatsoper; Hercules at Händel Festival Halle;; Didone e Enea by Purcell at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Le Nozze di Figaro, La Cenerentola, Don Pasquale, Cosi fan tutte at Monnaie in Bruxelles; Alcina at Opéra de Lyon; la clemenza di Tito in Prague, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Cleofide by Hasse at Semperoper in Dresden, Teseo at Komische Oper Berlin.
Recent seasons include: Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Vivaldi’s Orlando Paladino, Bergamo Teatro Donizetti L’Elisir d’ Amore, at Hamburgische Staatsoper a new production of Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride, at Innsbrucker Festwochen L’Isola disabitata by Haydn, at Oslo Opera new productions of L’Incoronazione di Poppea(with DVD recording) and Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria, Händel’s Rinaldo at Opera Köln. He returned to Semperoper in Dresden for a new production of Händel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, L’Italiana in Algeri and Il Barbiere di Siviglia; at Komische Oper in Berlin he conducted Orlando by Händel and in Innsbruck L’Olimpiade by Pergolesi with recording for Sony Harmonia Mundi.
Pergolesi in Olimpiade a production of Roberto De Simone at Teatro San Carlo in Neaples; L’Olimpiade by Pergolesi at Festival Pergolesi in Jesi. Flavius Bertaridus by Telemann with recording for Sony Harmonia Mundi both at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and at Hamburgische Staatsoper, where he has also conducted La Cenerentola.
Among his latest engagements: Innsbrucker Festwochen La Stellidaura Vendicante by Francesco Provenzale; Vienna Theater an der Wien Gluck’s Iphigenie en Aulide; at Opera Köln Anna Bolena; in Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic La Scala di Seta; at Teatro San Carlo in Neaples Rossini’s Demetrio e Polibio; at the Innsbrucker Festwochen La Clemenza di Tito.
He recently conducted Il barbiere di Siviglia in Turin Teatro Regio and concerts in the Symphonic Season of Teatro La Fenice in Venice and La Scala di seta .
Since 1998 Alessandro De Marchi is the principal conductor of Academia Montis Regalis Orchestra with which he conducted among others at the Festival of Montreux, Paris Théatre des Champs Elysées, Festival in Bruges, Festwochen der Alten Musik in Innsbruck, Theater an der Wien.
He has recorded for Naïve, Opus 111, Harmonia Mundi France, Accord, Symphonia, K617, Auvidis, WDR, Radio France, Radio Classique, Amadeus, Hyperion. Decca.
In 2009 Alessandro De Marchi has been appointed as artistic director, after René Jacobs, of the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik.