Summer of
Culture 2024
The Summer of Culture is here a last, and we would like to extend a warm welcome to our guests! The joy and enthusiasm are palpable as we enjoy the variety of cultural events together. It is a real treat to feel the poignant atmosphere and to see the cultural life coming back to life again. We very much look forward to enjoying the Cultural Summer to the fullest together with you!
Elections, sporting events, and anniversaries – there are many important events coming up in 2024, including the European Football Championship in Germany! We have chosen days off when YOU can get 100% involved with US!
The programme
,,The floating artists' salon on Lake Millstättersee"
Matinee
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
10:30 am
We invite you on an extraordinary journey with the “MS Kärnten” on the unique Millstätter See – the jewel in Carinthia!
The Weimar Comedian Harmonists will take you on a 45-minute musical journey. On board AND at sea you have another 45 min.
You will have the opportunity to enjoy a drink and a buffet – in the style of the 1920s, of course – and have stimulating conversations with the artists and get to know them.
You will also get to know two impressive women on your trip: Mrs. Alice Faschauner, the managing director of the Milstättersee Schifffahrtsgesellschaft and Mrs. Simone Ronacher, the director of the Thermal and Spa Hotel Ronacher – an idea is born, let’s fill it with passion !
A limited number of tickets are available for the matinee, so please make a binding booking at reception on the day of arrival!
The Weimar Comedian Harmonists
Thursday, 4 July 2024
Veronica, the Weimar Comedian Harmonists are here again!
With more than 100 performances at the German National Theatre Weimar alone, they are the perennial favourite – 25 years on! Experience two hours with a “permanent smile“ on your face, forgetting all the gloom and doom outside, probably comparable to that time when the Comedians first got together!
Matinee
Panoramarestaurant Nock In
Sunday, 7 July 2024
12.3 pm
The wonderful trio is back and now – after enchanting the guests of the Hotel Ronacher last year
of the Hotel Ronacher last year – they are now also conquering the mountain heights, the wonderful Hotel “Berghof”!
The passionate singers and theater actors would like to present you a potpourri of their personal
favorite songs and lyrics that promise (neither) a highly entertaining time. An up and down of emotions,
from profound insights to pure nonsense.
Vocals and lyrics: Karin Strocka and Markus Seidensticker
Piano: Thomas Voigt
„So oder so ist das Leben – Liebeslieder – Lieblingslieder"
("Life is like this or that - love songs - favorite songs“)
Monday, 8 July 2024
8.30 pm
“You don’t know me, but you’ve heard a lot of me.“ This is how the composer Werner Richard Heymann often introduced himself. The pun hides a deeper truth. Only a few people know his name, but everyone who keeps their ears open is very familiar with his songs. Heymann wrote hits, evergreens, and catchy tunes non-stop – most of them with his lyricist Robert Gilbert at his side: “Das gibt’s nur einmal” (“That’s only once”), “Ein Freund, ein guter Freund” (“A friend, a good friend”), “Irgendwo auf der Welt” (“Somewhere in the world”). Today, he is considered the top film composer of UFA in the Golden Twenties.
In a colourful evening, we will present his best songs that helped stars such as Heinz Rühmann or Lilian Harvey achieve great success, but also unknown rarities that were only performed in cabarets and on small stages. Some music just doesn‘t age.
Experience and exhilarating evening with songs of the golden era!
Cast: Markus Seidensticker, Katrin Strocka and Thomas Voigt
Kathy Kelly ,,Wer Lacht überlebt"
(,,Who laughs survives"´)
Friday, 9 August 2024
8.30 pm
“Laughter is like music: it speaks all languages and connects all people.”
Kathy Kelly is accompanied on the piano by the marvellous Andreas Recktenwald.
Matinee
Thursday, 15 August 2024
11:00 am
Ladies and gentlemen,
Signore e signori,
We cordially invite you to our concert in a class of its own !
Tour guide and tenor ALEXANDER VOIGT will take you – together with the two singing sisters Felicitas and Elisabeth Wrede – on a musical journey to the most beautiful places in the world.
on a musical journey to the most beautiful places in the world. Be there when the great arias of the Italian bel canto are performed, cheeky South American samba rhythms tempt you to dance or Slavic polkas sweep you off your feet!
We travel the globe, serve you a colourful feast of opera and operetta, garnish with chanson and finish with catchy pop songs. Melodies from Puccini’s operas to Paul Linke’s marches! A journey around the world with a dash of good humour!
Let yourself be seduced! We look forward to seeing you!
FERRAGOSTO in Italy and
ASSUMPTION DAY in Southern Germany
Thursday, 15 August 2024
8.30 pm
Tell me Quando, tell me when – I can be at the Ronacher again?
Oh, how time flies! ALEXANDER VOIGT is delighted to lead you through the evening of Ferragosto – together with his golden voice singers FELICITAS & ELISABETH WREDE! To the bank holiday – LIBIAMO!
What would Italy be without its great operas! Its famous tunes: Vivaldi, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi! We will be at the Arena di Verona. And it will be Gianni Schicchi performing! Immerse yourself in this Italian soundscape! In one of the most beautiful arias that can only come from the pen of an Italian composer! Puccini! O mio babbino caro … Followed by many more evocative titles, such as MARINA MARINA MARINA.
Volumen X - They are back:
Pigor & Eichhorn
Friday, 18 October 2024
8.30 pm
Live and in front of an audience, on the boards that mean the real world, with brains, charm, and salon hip-hop, with grand piano and vocals. After nine successful and award-winning programme volumes and various side projects, it would now be time for the anniversary edition – however, instead of looking back, the two renowned experts of elegant rap will lean out quite far of their time window and present: Volumen X. The brand-new generation of chansons as a reflection of the rudely awakened 20s. An astute analysis of the limits of modern social respectability and an umpteenly clever obstacle course through the stumbling blocks of rhetorics – even medieval universities already taught students to discredit their interlocutors rhetorically rather than dwell in content. Along the way, Pigor & Eichhorn will expose the supposedly well-known ballad “Ne me quitte pas“ as a stalker’s wet dream giving a more precise translation.
See more programme details.
Your benefit: The evening events are included in the overnight rate!
For day guests:
Ticket for the event € 25.-
Indulging meal incl. ticket € 83.-
We very much look forward to welcoming you to the SUMMER OF CULTURE 2024 in the enchanting setting of the Ronacher!
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