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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The bass Amin Ahangaran takes part in this year’s Salzburg Young Singers Project which is a high-powered platform for the promotion of young singers. Accompagnied by the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under the baton of Leo Hussain the participants of this year come together in a final concert which takes place in the House for Mozart in Salzburg on August 30th.
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Joseph Calleja performs at the 74th Dubrovnik Summer Festival on 25th August in front of the Cathedral in Dubrovnik. Joseph Calleja will be the featured soloist alongside soprano Sonya Yoncheva and bass Ante Jerkunica, accompanied by the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under conductor Ivan Repušić.
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Musikfest Bremen invites Jonathan Tetelman to perform Viva Puccini Gala on August 28. The tenor alongside with Bremener Philharmoniker and Marko Letonja presents a program of famous arias from Tosca, La Bohème, Madame Butterfly and Turandot.
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The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival presents Viaggio dell’anima or soul journey, a new concert program by Rolando Villazón and lautten compagney BERLIN with its principal conductor Wolfgang Katschner featuring Italian music of the 17th century.
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Ariun Ganbaatar portrays Escamillo in the evening showcasing highlights from Georges Bizet’s Carmen at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen on August 25. Ariun sings alongside Leonardo Capalbo as Don José and Ramona Zaharia as Carmen while Mathias Hammer, presenter and music communicator narrates the story.
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Rolando Villazón and lautten compagney BERLIN with its principal conductor Wolfgang Katschner present their new program “Viaggio dell’Anima”. The ‘Soul journey’ programme premiers in Merano on August 22 at the Südtirol Festival and features music by Claudio Monteverdi, Giulio and Francesca Caccini and their contemporaries.
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