Theodore Platt appears at the Eppaner Liedsommer festival on September 8, 2024, in Lanserhaus Eppan. The British-Russian baritone presents a recital accompanied by pianist Keval Shah. The program features Schumann's Tragödie Op. 64 and Liederkreis Op. 24, Ravel's Histoires naturelles, and works by Quilter, Gurney, and Warlock. This concert is part of the Eppaner Liedsommer 2024, a festival under the artistic direction of Brigitte Fassbaender.
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Joseph Calleja and Emily Pogorelc perform a concert at the Bucharest Sala Palatului, September 7, as a part of Masters of Classics, a new festival dedicated to classical music. Calleja and Pogorelc together with the Sofia Philharmonic and Michelangelo Mazza present a selection of great opera arias, such as Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne.
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Piotr Beczała performs in a concert celebrating Anton Bruckner's 200th birthday on September 4, 2024, at the St. Florian Abbey Basilica. Markus Poschner conducts the Bruckner Orchester Linz in a program featuring Bruckner's "Te Deum" and his unfinished 9th Symphony. Beczała joins soloists Camilla Nylund, Christa Mayer, and Michael Volle, accompanied by a combined choir of the Hard-Chor and Linzer Jeunesse Chor.
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Elene Gvritishvili opens her season with Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 at Moscow Rassvel Hall on September 5, 2024. Gvritishvili takes on the soprano part and performs alongside bass Ilia Tatakov and im Spiegel chamber orchestra under the baton of Fedor Beznosikov.
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Tenor Jonah Hoskins takes the role of Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at Semperoper Dresden. The production by Grischa Asagaroff is lead under the baton of Daniele Squeo. The opera can be experienced on September 4, 7, 15 and 21.
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Tenor Omar Mancini performs Beethoven’s 9th symphony in Turin together with the orchestra and choir of Teatro Regio Torino under the auspice of the international music festival MITO Settembre Musica. Mancini is joined on stage by soprano Salome Jicia, mezzo-soprano Teresa Iervolino and bass Adolfo Corrado. The concert is lead under the baton of conductor Michele Spotti and takes place on September 6 at Piazza San Carlo in Turin.
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Rolando Villazón presents Serenata Latina recital with harpist Xavier de Maistre in Steinfurt on September 1. The program brings together vocal music from Villazón’s home continent, including a varied and extremely moving selection of Latin American canciones in new arrangements for harp accompaniment.
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Emily D’Angelo’s second solo album for Deutsche Grammophon, freezing, comprises seventeen songs drawn from the folk tradition, art song and beyond. The Canadian mezzo-soprano offers a personal take on music that spans five centuries, ranging from songs by John Dowland and Henry Purcell; Rebecca Clarke, Zoltán Kodály, W.C. Handy and Philip Glass; to recent works by Randy Newman, Jeanine Tesori, Cecilia Livingston, “Adrian Ira” Kramer and US band Ween. D’Angelo is joined on freezing by Sophia Muñoz (piano), Bruno Helstroffer (electric guitar) and Jonas Niederstadt (bass guitar, synth, percussion). The album is released on August 30th on Spotify, Apple music, Tidal and other platforms.
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Rolando Villazón and the pianist Sarah Tysman present their Belcanto program in Kiel on August 30. As a part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the recital features arias and songs by Alessandro Scarlatti, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Ernesto de Curtis and others.
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