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The exhibition starts in the Carriage Entranceway and can be followed using this leafl et. Please note that there are no longer any exhibition cases in the Paul Hamlyn Hall.

CARRIAGE ENTRANCEWAY The costumes on display here recall just a few of the many Georg Solti conducted with The Royal Opera. Right Case Far Left Case In 1962, early in his tenure as Music Director, Georg Solti Georg Solti knew and was inspired by the composer . conducted an evening of three short operas directed by Peter His favourite Strauss work was and he conducted a new Ustinov. The yellow ball dress was designed by Jean-Pierre production of the opera at the Royal Opera House in 1970. Ponelle and worn by Mary Costa as Concepcion in Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole. The highly detailed costumes designed by Andrzej Majewski were worn by Grace Bumbry as Salome and Ragnar Ulfung as Herod. The simple mushroom-coloured dress was designed by Günther Schneider-Siemssen and worn by Amy Shuard as The Woman in Left Case the fi rst performance of Schoenberg’s Erwartung at the Royal Solti conducted a new and highly successful production of Verdi’s Opera House. La traviata with The Royal Opera in 1994. Violetta was sung by the young Romanian soprano and the performance Far Right Case confi rmed her international career. Solti returned to the Royal Opera House in 1992 to conduct a revival of Verdi’s to mark his 80th birthday. Kiri Te The replica of the silver rose used in Strauss’s Kanawa was Desdemona and Plácido Domingo Otello, with was presented to Solti by the Royal Opera House Props department costumes designed by Peter J. Hall. In recognition of his special in 1992. relationship with the Royal Opera House Solti was made Music Director Laureate of The Royal Opera, the only conductor to have been so honoured. Replica silver rose from Der Rosenkavalier Detail from Concepcion’s dress in L’Heure espagnole CARRIAGE ENTRANCEWAY ©2012, Royal Opera House/Royal Opera House Collections ©2012, Royal Opera House/Royal Opera House Collections G COSTUME GALLERY

FOYER LINK During his fi rst month as Music Director Georg Solti conducted a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre directed by the singer and designed by Herbert Kern. The design of the production was not successful and Günther Schneider-Siemssen was engaged to design the complete Ring cycle over the next two years. In 1964, Solti conducted the complete Ring cycle for the fi rst time, in a production directed by Hans Hotter. The Cycle was revived in 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1970. The wall cases hold material illustrating both of these Ring productions and include one of Solti’s scores for Götterdämmerung, on loan from Lady Solti and the Solti Family Archive.

Costume designed by Günther Schneider-Siemssen and worn by Noreen Berry as Siegrune in Die Walküre, 5 September 1964, and the sword for Georg Solti and Maria Callas and Kenneth MacMillan: Siegfried designed by Herbert Kern, used in the 1962 The Royal Opera The Royal Opera 24 September 2012 revival of Die Walküre Rudolf Nureyev: Solti’s scores for Götterdämmerung 22 December 2012 Frederick Ashton: Courtesy of the Solti Family Archive ©2012, Royal Opera House/Royal Opera House Collections 12 February 2013 G FOYER LINK

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A mixture of photographs, including images of Georg Top right: Left: Georg Solti Highlights of the Solti years at the Royal Opera House Solti in rehearsal, set and costume designs and posters at the Farewell from 1964–71 are recalled through photographs, Gala, 14 July 1997 illustrate Georg Solti’s work at the Royal Opera House. and Dietrich designs and posters. Fischer-Dieskau ©Rob Moore Solti’s early life is explored with the help of material in Strauss’s Solti’s stated aim when he became Music Director was , 29 loaned by Lady Solti and the Solti Family Archive that January 1965 to turn the Opera Company into the gives an insight into what drove him to become one of ©1965, Royal best company in the world. By the late 1960s it became the great musicians and conductors of the 20th century. Opera House/ clear that he had succeeded. The Company received Donald Southern the Royal Charter in 1968 and became The Royal His fi rst appearance at the Royal Opera House Opera, the national opera company. Solti also took conducting for Colonel de Basil’s Ballets Russes de The Royal Opera on its fi rst overseas tour to Berlin and Monte Carlo season in 1938 and his fi rst appearances Below right: in 1970. conducting the Covent Garden Opera Company in Georg Solti Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier in 1959 are recalled. In 1961 with Elisabeth Solti returned regularly to the Royal Opera House to Schwarzkopf Solti was appointed Music Director of the Covent during a break conduct The Royal Opera between 1971 and 1997. Garden Opera Company, a post he held until 1971. in rehearsals for At the end of the Amphitheatre Gallery there is a rare Material recalls productions from 1961–4 and the Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, opportunity to see the portrait of Georg Solti painted curved wall holds material illustrating Solti’s Ring cycle. 1959 by Maggi Hambling in 1985, which is on loan from ©1959, Royal Opera Lady Solti and the Solti Family Archive. House/Roger Wood Information panels throughout the exhibition provide further details of Solti’s career at the Royal Opera House. 2 AMPHITHEATRE GALLERY

AMPHITHEATRE BAR Right: Left: 1964 In the le© hand case is a costume designed by Franco Costume worn by poster for Ze‹ relli and worn by as Leporello in a Geraint Evans as Leporello in a new new production of Mozart’s in 1962. In production the photograph to the right of the case, Georg Solti can of Mozart’s be seen conducting a rehearsal of this production in the Don Giovanni, 1962 orchestra pit at the Royal Opera House. The far case has a costume designed by Lila de Nobili and worn by as Rigoletto in the 1964 new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto directed by Franco Ze‹ relli.

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