Rolando Villazón and Kate Lindsey present their acclaimed program Amore e Follia at the Festival der Nationen in Bad Wörishofen on October 6, 2024. Featured works of Vivaldi, Rossini, Offenbach and others balancing between love and madness are performed with the Philharmonie Baden-Baden under the baton of Guerassim Voronkov.
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Mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez performs a concert version of Saint-Saëns’ L’Ancêtre with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. Arquez takes the role of Vanina and is joined on stage by soprano Jennifer Holloway, soprano Hélène Carpentier, tenor Julien Henric, baritone Michael Arivony and baritone Matthieu Lécroart. The concert will take place on October 6 at the Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco.
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Soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller performs Mahler’s symphony no. 4 with Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana under the baton of Markus Poschner. The concert takes place in the residence of the orchestra Lugano Arte e Cultura (LAC) on October 4th.
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Tenor Granit Musliu makes his house debut at the Semperoper Dresden as Cassio in Otello. The production by Vincent Boussard is lead under the musical direction of Timur Zangiev and can be experienced on October 2, 5, 11 and 19.
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Keri-Lynn Wilson begins her tenure as the musical director of the Kyiv Camerata with a concert tour through Ukraine. The concert program consists of works by Ukrainian composers performed by violin soloist Bohdana Pivnenko, violist Kateryna Suprun, pianist Dmytro Tavanets and Volodymyr Zubytskyi on accordion. The concerts take place on October 4 in the National Philharmonic of Ukraine in Kyiv, on October 5 in the Philharmonic named after O. Kozarenko in Kolomyia and on October 6 at the Chernivtsi Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Olga Kobylyanska.
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Tenor Edgardo Rocha performs the North American premiere of Ferdinando Päer’s Leonora at the Chicago Opera Theater. Lawrence Edelson’s production under the baton of Dame Jane Glover will be the first fully staged production in the world to use the new critical edition of the score, recently prepared by Bärenreiter. Rocha takes on the role of Florestano and is joined on stage by Vanessa Becerra in the title role. The opera can be experienced on October 1, 4 and 6 at the Studebaker Theater, Chicago.
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Javier Camarena performs a recital with pianist Andrea Grant and the UBC Opera Ensemble in Vancouver on October 3. Organized by the Opera West Society, the performance is followed by Camarena's master class for young singers.
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Rolando Villazón and other musicians such as Daniel Hope, Albrecht Mayer, Daniel Müller-Schott and Charlotte Melkonian will perform classical masterpieces - from Mozart to Dvorák and Bach - with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Stephan Frucht on October 1, 2024 in Düsseldorf. The proceeds will benefit the Ukrainian Red Cross and the refugee work of the Red Cross-Düsseldorf.
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Emily Pogorelc takes the stage in Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana on September 28, 2024. The program features works by Wolf, Mahler, Schubert, and Reimann, including lieder based on texts by Goethe. She is accompanied by the String Quartet of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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