Musiksommer: Michael Dangl & Maria Fedotova

"Johann Strauss - Love, Waltz, Madness"

Josefstadt star Michael Dangl and his wife, the renowned flutist Maria Fedotova, narrate in word and sound the story of the waltz king Johann Strauss.

Autumn Reading 2025, Word & Sound

Michael Dangl: Recitation
Maria Fedotova: Flute
N.N.: Piano

Admission: € 26.00
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Johann Strauss – Love, Waltz, Madness
Michael Dangl's new book (publication: February 2025) is the manic, furious – and comedic – reckoning of aging Johann Strauss (II) with himself and his life. Revered by the world as the waltz king, he recounts the ruins of his inner kingdom, from which he has banished love, thereby condemning himself to failure. One more time he travels to St. Petersburg to win back the only love of his life, which he lost thirty years ago out of cowardice.
Olga Smirnitzkaja, the 18-year-old composer at that time, has set poems to music. The flutist Maria Fedotova plays these as well as romances and paraphrases by Johann Strauss.

Michael Dangl
Salzburg State Theater, then at German theaters from Munich to Hamburg. In 1998, Helmuth Lohner engaged him at the Vienna Josefstadt, where he has since played the major roles of classical and modern theater as a protagonist. In 2001, he received the European Cultural Prize, and in 2023 the Raimund Ring and the title of Kammerschauspieler. 
Michael Dangl has performed at the Salzburg, Reichenau, and Bregenz festivals. He acts in film and TV, (“Vorstadtweiber”, “Tatort”), writes and narrates literary texts for Ö1, and organizes recitation programs, with a special emphasis on collaborating with musicians. Concerts he has performed include those with Gidon Kremer, Jordi Savall, Rafael Fingerlos, Nicolas Altstaedt, Julia Hagen, with the Kremerata Baltica, the Concentus Musicus Vienna, the Klangforum Vienna, the Camerata Salzburg, the Rhineland Philharmonic, at venues such as: Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Concert Hall, Theater MUTH and Akzent, Cultural Summer Semmering, Chamber Music Festival Lockenhaus, Styriarte Graz, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Festival Sion, Gmundner Festwochen, Kronberg Academy, among others. In Moscow, he performed in the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory as the “Frog” in “Die Fledermaus” in Russian.
Especially the programs with his wife, flutist Maria Fedotova, connect Dangl’s literary with his musical passion (“Casanova”, “The Nightingale”, “7 Minutes Before Christmas”), as well as his collaboration with Konstantin Wecker: “Every Moment is Eternal” in Vienna, Theater im Park; “The Sound of the Unplayed Notes” in Munich at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz.
There, since 2018, he has played Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady” and the “Frog” in Die Fledermaus (co-production with Teatro Maggio Musicale, Florence). Michael Dangl is the author of plays and now six books, his latest novel “Oranges for Dostoevsky” was published in St. Petersburg in Russian translation. 

Maria Fedotova
The flutist, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Prof. A. Vavilina-Mravinski, began her music studies at the age of five. At eight, she performed in duet with her father, flutist Vladimir Fedotov. First solo concert with the chamber orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. She successfully combined her solo career with work at the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow under Vladimir Fedoseyev. At only 19, Fedotova became a soloist with this leading Russian orchestra. Since 2012, she has been the solo flutist of the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra in St. Petersburg under Valerij Gergiev and also teaches at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
As a soloist, she has performed with partners such as Gidon Kremer, Patrick Gallois, Walter Auer, Tatjana Grindenko, Naoka Yoshino, Michala Petri and at international festivals such as Salzburg, Verbier, Elmau, Lockenhaus, Bregenz, during the “Cultural Summer Semmering” and “Les Musiques”. She has played with the Vienna Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov, the Kremerata Baltica, and the Musica Aeterna under Teodor Currentzis. CDs: “7 Minutes Before Christmas”, “Was it Nicholas?”, “12 Months Advent” with Michael Dangl, Mozart Flute Quartets with Tatjana Grindenko and “In Flux – New Flute Quartets”. Recently, her CD with the Fantasies for Solo Flute by G.P. Telemann was released by Gramola Austria. Soon, a new recording of all Rachmaninoff piano concertos will be released with Maria as the solo flutist in the Rachmaninoff Orchestra under Kent Nagano with Michail Pletnev on piano.

“Michael Dangl tells of the wounds of life with the mask of the comedian.” — Peter Turrini on Michael Dangl's novel “In the Rapture”

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