Performer: Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Friday 5-Jul-13 07:00pm |
 Olavinlinna Castle, SavonlinnaSamson and Delilah Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Guy Montavon, Stage Director/Lighting Designer Hank Irwin Kittel, Set Designer Milijana Nikolic, Mezzo-soprano: Delilah Franco Farina, Tenor: Samson Elchin Azizov, Baritone: High Priest of Dagon Thomas Hall, Bass: Abimélech Stefan Szkafarowsky, Bass Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Friday 5-Jul-13 07:00pm The best-known opera by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, likened as a child to Mozart in view of his outstanding talent, serves as a suitable contrast to the otherwise Verdi-Wagner orientation of the 2013 season. Samson and Delilah is a worthy successor to the previously produced French operas on the Olavinlinna stage.
The story based on the Bible about the passionate relationship between the victorious Hebrew leader Samson and the treacherous Philistine maiden Delilah generates thrilling tension in this splendid opera. The mighty warrior whose strength is his long hair is totally disarmed by the mezzo-soprano aria, one of the finest in operatic literature, “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (My heart opens itself to your voice). In cooperation with The Theater Erfurt. Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Guy Montavon, Stage Director/Lighting Designer Hank Irwin Kittel, Set Designer Milijana Nikolic, Mezzo-soprano: Delilah Franco Farina, Tenor: Samson Elchin Azizov, Baritone: High Priest of Dagon Thomas Hall, Bass: Abimélech Stefan Szkafarowsky, Bass Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Saturday 6-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna La traviata Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Maxim Axenov, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Saturday 6-Jul-13 07:00pm In honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Savonlinna Opera Festival is adding to its repertoire one of the best-loved and most frequently-performed operas of all time. For many an opera lover this will mean a long-cherished dream come true: La traviata at last in Savonlinna!
Can a flighty courtesan accustomed to a life of pleasure genuinely fall in love, and does she deserve true happiness? Verdi was clearly inspired by this tragic, beautiful love story about Violetta and Alfredo, built round these fundamental questions. The music of La traviata is some of his very finest: coloratura arias that bubble like champagne, and melodies that play exquisitely on the ear follow one upon the other like a row of sparkling gems, pampering the listener again and again. Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Maxim Axenov, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Monday 8-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Lohengrin Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jari Hämäläinen, Conductor Roman Hovenbitzer, Stage Director Kirsten Chambers, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Thomas Hall, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Tuija Knihtilä, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud Mika Kares, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Matias Tosi, Bass: The King's Herald Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Monday 8-Jul-13 06:00pm Lohengrin is Savonlinna’s tribute to the 200th anniversary in 2013 of the birth of Richard Wagner. By the time he came to write this, his sixth opera, Wagner had finally discovered his very own approach to opera as an art form emphasising the unity of words and music. As Franz Liszt, who conducted the first performance, said, old opera had reached the end of the road with Lohengrin – a masterpiece containing some of the most magnificent male choruses in all Wagner.
The interpretation created for the Olavinlinna stage by a German team led by stage director Roman Hovenbitzer seasons the libretto steeped in romantic chivalry with allusions to three eras: the Middle Ages, when the tale was originally written, the Romantic era, when the opera was composed, and the present day, an age that craves a messianic savour and heroic idols just as much as in Wagner’s times. Jari Hämäläinen, Conductor Roman Hovenbitzer, Stage Director Kirsten Chambers, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Thomas Hall, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Tuija Knihtilä, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud Mika Kares, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Matias Tosi, Bass: The King's Herald Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Tuesday 9-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Samson and Delilah Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Guy Montavon, Stage Director/Lighting Designer Hank Irwin Kittel, Set Designer Milijana Nikolic, Mezzo-soprano: Delilah Franco Farina, Tenor: Samson Elchin Azizov, Baritone: High Priest of Dagon Thomas Hall, Bass: Abimélech Stefan Szkafarowsky, Bass Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Tuesday 9-Jul-13 07:00pm The best-known opera by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, likened as a child to Mozart in view of his outstanding talent, serves as a suitable contrast to the otherwise Verdi-Wagner orientation of the 2013 season. Samson and Delilah is a worthy successor to the previously produced French operas on the Olavinlinna stage.
The story based on the Bible about the passionate relationship between the victorious Hebrew leader Samson and the treacherous Philistine maiden Delilah generates thrilling tension in this splendid opera. The mighty warrior whose strength is his long hair is totally disarmed by the mezzo-soprano aria, one of the finest in operatic literature, “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (My heart opens itself to your voice).
In cooperation with The Theater Erfurt. Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Guy Montavon, Stage Director/Lighting Designer Hank Irwin Kittel, Set Designer Milijana Nikolic, Mezzo-soprano: Delilah Franco Farina, Tenor: Samson Elchin Azizov, Baritone: High Priest of Dagon Thomas Hall, Bass: Abimélech Stefan Szkafarowsky, Bass Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Wednesday 10-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna La traviata Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix TBA, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Daniel Sutin, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Wednesday 10-Jul-13 07:00pm In honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Savonlinna Opera Festival is adding to its repertoire one of the best-loved and most frequently-performed operas of all time. For many an opera lover this will mean a long-cherished dream come true: La traviata at last in Savonlinna!
Can a flighty courtesan accustomed to a life of pleasure genuinely fall in love, and does she deserve true happiness? Verdi was clearly inspired by this tragic, beautiful love story about Violetta and Alfredo, built round these fundamental questions. The music of La traviata is some of his very finest: coloratura arias that bubble like champagne, and melodies that play exquisitely on the ear follow one upon the other like a row of sparkling gems, pampering the listener again and again. Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix TBA, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Daniel Sutin, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Thursday 11-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Samson and Delilah Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Guy Montavon, Stage Director/Lighting Designer Hank Irwin Kittel, Set Designer Milijana Nikolic, Mezzo-soprano: Delilah Franco Farina, Tenor: Samson Elchin Azizov, Baritone: High Priest of Dagon Thomas Hall, Bass: Abimélech Stefan Szkafarowsky, Bass Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Thursday 11-Jul-13 07:00pm The best-known opera by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, likened as a child to Mozart in view of his outstanding talent, serves as a suitable contrast to the otherwise Verdi-Wagner orientation of the 2013 season. Samson and Delilah is a worthy successor to the previously produced French operas on the Olavinlinna stage.
The story based on the Bible about the passionate relationship between the victorious Hebrew leader Samson and the treacherous Philistine maiden Delilah generates thrilling tension in this splendid opera. The mighty warrior whose strength is his long hair is totally disarmed by the mezzo-soprano aria, one of the finest in operatic literature, “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (My heart opens itself to your voice).
In cooperation with The Theater Erfurt. Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Guy Montavon, Stage Director/Lighting Designer Hank Irwin Kittel, Set Designer Milijana Nikolic, Mezzo-soprano: Delilah Franco Farina, Tenor: Samson Elchin Azizov, Baritone: High Priest of Dagon Thomas Hall, Bass: Abimélech Stefan Szkafarowsky, Bass Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Friday 12-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Lohengrin Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jari Hämäläinen, Conductor Roman Hovenbitzer, Stage Director Kirsten Chambers, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Thomas Hall, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Tuija Knihtilä, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud Mika Kares, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Matias Tosi, Bass: The King's Herald Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Friday 12-Jul-13 06:00pm Lohengrin is Savonlinna’s tribute to the 200th anniversary in 2013 of the birth of Richard Wagner. By the time he came to write this, his sixth opera, Wagner had finally discovered his very own approach to opera as an art form emphasising the unity of words and music. As Franz Liszt, who conducted the first performance, said, old opera had reached the end of the road with Lohengrin – a masterpiece containing some of the most magnificent male choruses in all Wagner.
The interpretation created for the Olavinlinna stage by a German team led by stage director Roman Hovenbitzer seasons the libretto steeped in romantic chivalry with allusions to three eras: the Middle Ages, when the tale was originally written, the Romantic era, when the opera was composed, and the present day, an age that craves a messianic savour and heroic idols just as much as in Wagner’s times. Jari Hämäläinen, Conductor Roman Hovenbitzer, Stage Director Kirsten Chambers, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Thomas Hall, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Tuija Knihtilä, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud Mika Kares, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Matias Tosi, Bass: The King's Herald Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Saturday 13-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Macbeth Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jan Latham-König, Conductor Ralf Långbacka, Stage Director Anneli Qveflander, Set Designer Stephen Gaertner, Baritone: Macbeth Csilla Boross, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Carlo Colombara, Bass: Banquo Warren Mok, Tenor: Macduff Hannu Jurmu, Tenor: Malcolm Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Saturday 13-Jul-13 07:00pm The masterly music composed by Giuseppe Verdi for Shakespeare’s powerful drama, combined with the highly-acclaimed direction of Ralf Långbacka and the costumes and stage designs of Anneli Qveflander together create one of the most successful productions in the history of the Savonlinna Opera Festival. This Macbeth has also been frequently seen on other stages, both in guest performances by the Savonlinna Opera Festival and in rental productions.When lust for power spurs husband and wife to ever more dastardly deeds, an honourable nobleman and first-rate soldier can turn into a human monster who, to be on the safe side, stops at nothing to liquidate any who stand in his way, both friend and foe. This perspective, highlighted in Långbacka’s vision, makes the Savonlinna Macbeth a more human and more “ordinary” character than the one presented in many other productions. And hence so credible and moving. Jan Latham-König, Conductor Ralf Långbacka, Stage Director Anneli Qveflander, Set Designer Stephen Gaertner, Baritone: Macbeth Csilla Boross, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Carlo Colombara, Bass: Banquo Warren Mok, Tenor: Macduff Hannu Jurmu, Tenor: Malcolm Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Monday 15-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna La traviata Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Maxim Axenov, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Monday 15-Jul-13 07:00pm In honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Savonlinna Opera Festival is adding to its repertoire one of the best-loved and most frequently-performed operas of all time. For many an opera lover this will mean a long-cherished dream come true: La traviata at last in Savonlinna!
Can a flighty courtesan accustomed to a life of pleasure genuinely fall in love, and does she deserve true happiness? Verdi was clearly inspired by this tragic, beautiful love story about Violetta and Alfredo, built round these fundamental questions. The music of La traviata is some of his very finest: coloratura arias that bubble like champagne, and melodies that play exquisitely on the ear follow one upon the other like a row of sparkling gems, pampering the listener again and again. Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Maxim Axenov, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Tuesday 16-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Samson and Delilah Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Guy Montavon, Stage Director/Lighting Designer Hank Irwin Kittel, Set Designer Milijana Nikolic, Mezzo-soprano: Delilah Franco Farina, Tenor: Samson Elchin Azizov, Baritone: High Priest of Dagon Thomas Hall, Bass: Abimélech Stefan Szkafarowsky, Bass Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Tuesday 16-Jul-13 07:00pm The best-known opera by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, likened as a child to Mozart in view of his outstanding talent, serves as a suitable contrast to the otherwise Verdi-Wagner orientation of the 2013 season. Samson and Delilah is a worthy successor to the previously produced French operas on the Olavinlinna stage.
The story based on the Bible about the passionate relationship between the victorious Hebrew leader Samson and the treacherous Philistine maiden Delilah generates thrilling tension in this splendid opera. The mighty warrior whose strength is his long hair is totally disarmed by the mezzo-soprano aria, one of the finest in operatic literature, “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (My heart opens itself to your voice).
In cooperation with The Theater Erfurt. Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Guy Montavon, Stage Director/Lighting Designer Hank Irwin Kittel, Set Designer Milijana Nikolic, Mezzo-soprano: Delilah Franco Farina, Tenor: Samson Elchin Azizov, Baritone: High Priest of Dagon Thomas Hall, Bass: Abimélech Stefan Szkafarowsky, Bass Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Wednesday 17-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna La traviata Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix TBA, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Daniel Sutin, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Wednesday 17-Jul-13 07:00pm In honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Savonlinna Opera Festival is adding to its repertoire one of the best-loved and most frequently-performed operas of all time. For many an opera lover this will mean a long-cherished dream come true: La traviata at last in Savonlinna!
Can a flighty courtesan accustomed to a life of pleasure genuinely fall in love, and does she deserve true happiness? Verdi was clearly inspired by this tragic, beautiful love story about Violetta and Alfredo, built round these fundamental questions. The music of La traviata is some of his very finest: coloratura arias that bubble like champagne, and melodies that play exquisitely on the ear follow one upon the other like a row of sparkling gems, pampering the listener again and again. Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix TBA, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Daniel Sutin, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Thursday 18-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Macbeth Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jan Latham-König, Conductor Ralf Långbacka, Stage Director Anneli Qveflander, Set Designer Stephen Gaertner, Baritone: Macbeth Csilla Boross, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Carlo Colombara, Bass: Banquo Warren Mok, Tenor: Macduff Hannu Jurmu, Tenor: Malcolm Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Thursday 18-Jul-13 07:00pm The masterly music composed by Giuseppe Verdi for Shakespeare’s powerful drama, combined with the highly-acclaimed direction of Ralf Långbacka and the costumes and stage designs of Anneli Qveflander together create one of the most successful productions in the history of the Savonlinna Opera Festival. This Macbeth has also been frequently seen on other stages, both in guest performances by the Savonlinna Opera Festival and in rental productions.When lust for power spurs husband and wife to ever more dastardly deeds, an honourable nobleman and first-rate soldier can turn into a human monster who, to be on the safe side, stops at nothing to liquidate any who stand in his way, both friend and foe. This perspective, highlighted in Långbacka’s vision, makes the Savonlinna Macbeth a more human and more “ordinary” character than the one presented in many other productions. And hence so credible and moving. Jan Latham-König, Conductor Ralf Långbacka, Stage Director Anneli Qveflander, Set Designer Stephen Gaertner, Baritone: Macbeth Csilla Boross, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Carlo Colombara, Bass: Banquo Warren Mok, Tenor: Macduff Hannu Jurmu, Tenor: Malcolm Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Friday 19-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Lohengrin Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jari Hämäläinen, Conductor Roman Hovenbitzer, Stage Director Kirsten Chambers, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Thomas Hall, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Tuija Knihtilä, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud Mika Kares, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Matias Tosi, Bass: The King's Herald Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Friday 19-Jul-13 06:00pm Lohengrin is Savonlinna’s tribute to the 200th anniversary in 2013 of the birth of Richard Wagner. By the time he came to write this, his sixth opera, Wagner had finally discovered his very own approach to opera as an art form emphasising the unity of words and music. As Franz Liszt, who conducted the first performance, said, old opera had reached the end of the road with Lohengrin – a masterpiece containing some of the most magnificent male choruses in all Wagner.
The interpretation created for the Olavinlinna stage by a German team led by stage director Roman Hovenbitzer seasons the libretto steeped in romantic chivalry with allusions to three eras: the Middle Ages, when the tale was originally written, the Romantic era, when the opera was composed, and the present day, an age that craves a messianic savour and heroic idols just as much as in Wagner’s times. Jari Hämäläinen, Conductor Roman Hovenbitzer, Stage Director Kirsten Chambers, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Thomas Hall, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Tuija Knihtilä, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud Mika Kares, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Matias Tosi, Bass: The King's Herald Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Saturday 20-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna La traviata Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Maxim Axenov, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Saturday 20-Jul-13 07:00pm In honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Savonlinna Opera Festival is adding to its repertoire one of the best-loved and most frequently-performed operas of all time. For many an opera lover this will mean a long-cherished dream come true: La traviata at last in Savonlinna!
Can a flighty courtesan accustomed to a life of pleasure genuinely fall in love, and does she deserve true happiness? Verdi was clearly inspired by this tragic, beautiful love story about Violetta and Alfredo, built round these fundamental questions. The music of La traviata is some of his very finest: coloratura arias that bubble like champagne, and melodies that play exquisitely on the ear follow one upon the other like a row of sparkling gems, pampering the listener again and again. Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Jennifer Rowley, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Maxim Axenov, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Monday 22-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna La traviata Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Venera Gimadieva, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix TBA, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Daniel Sutin, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Monday 22-Jul-13 07:00pm In honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Savonlinna Opera Festival is adding to its repertoire one of the best-loved and most frequently-performed operas of all time. For many an opera lover this will mean a long-cherished dream come true: La traviata at last in Savonlinna!
Can a flighty courtesan accustomed to a life of pleasure genuinely fall in love, and does she deserve true happiness? Verdi was clearly inspired by this tragic, beautiful love story about Violetta and Alfredo, built round these fundamental questions. The music of La traviata is some of his very finest: coloratura arias that bubble like champagne, and melodies that play exquisitely on the ear follow one upon the other like a row of sparkling gems, pampering the listener again and again. Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Venera Gimadieva, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix TBA, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Daniel Sutin, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Tuesday 23-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Macbeth Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jan Latham-König, Conductor Ralf Långbacka, Stage Director Anneli Qveflander, Set Designer Stephen Gaertner, Baritone: Macbeth Csilla Boross, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Carlo Colombara, Bass: Banquo Warren Mok, Tenor: Macduff Hannu Jurmu, Tenor: Malcolm Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Tuesday 23-Jul-13 07:00pm The masterly music composed by Giuseppe Verdi for Shakespeare’s powerful drama, combined with the highly-acclaimed direction of Ralf Långbacka and the costumes and stage designs of Anneli Qveflander together create one of the most successful productions in the history of the Savonlinna Opera Festival. This Macbeth has also been frequently seen on other stages, both in guest performances by the Savonlinna Opera Festival and in rental productions.When lust for power spurs husband and wife to ever more dastardly deeds, an honourable nobleman and first-rate soldier can turn into a human monster who, to be on the safe side, stops at nothing to liquidate any who stand in his way, both friend and foe. This perspective, highlighted in Långbacka’s vision, makes the Savonlinna Macbeth a more human and more “ordinary” character than the one presented in many other productions. And hence so credible and moving. Jan Latham-König, Conductor Ralf Långbacka, Stage Director Anneli Qveflander, Set Designer Stephen Gaertner, Baritone: Macbeth Csilla Boross, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Carlo Colombara, Bass: Banquo Warren Mok, Tenor: Macduff Hannu Jurmu, Tenor: Malcolm Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Wednesday 24-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Lohengrin Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jari Hämäläinen, Conductor Roman Hovenbitzer, Stage Director Kirsten Chambers, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Thomas Hall, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Tuija Knihtilä, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud Mika Kares, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Matias Tosi, Bass: The King's Herald Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Wednesday 24-Jul-13 06:00pm Lohengrin is Savonlinna’s tribute to the 200th anniversary in 2013 of the birth of Richard Wagner. By the time he came to write this, his sixth opera, Wagner had finally discovered his very own approach to opera as an art form emphasising the unity of words and music. As Franz Liszt, who conducted the first performance, said, old opera had reached the end of the road with Lohengrin – a masterpiece containing some of the most magnificent male choruses in all Wagner.
The interpretation created for the Olavinlinna stage by a German team led by stage director Roman Hovenbitzer seasons the libretto steeped in romantic chivalry with allusions to three eras: the Middle Ages, when the tale was originally written, the Romantic era, when the opera was composed, and the present day, an age that craves a messianic savour and heroic idols just as much as in Wagner’s times. Jari Hämäläinen, Conductor Roman Hovenbitzer, Stage Director Kirsten Chambers, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Thomas Hall, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Tuija Knihtilä, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud Mika Kares, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Matias Tosi, Bass: The King's Herald Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Thursday 25-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna La traviata Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Venera Gimadieva, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Maxim Axenov, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Thursday 25-Jul-13 07:00pm In honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Savonlinna Opera Festival is adding to its repertoire one of the best-loved and most frequently-performed operas of all time. For many an opera lover this will mean a long-cherished dream come true: La traviata at last in Savonlinna!
Can a flighty courtesan accustomed to a life of pleasure genuinely fall in love, and does she deserve true happiness? Verdi was clearly inspired by this tragic, beautiful love story about Violetta and Alfredo, built round these fundamental questions. The music of La traviata is some of his very finest: coloratura arias that bubble like champagne, and melodies that play exquisitely on the ear follow one upon the other like a row of sparkling gems, pampering the listener again and again. Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Venera Gimadieva, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Maxim Axenov, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Friday 26-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Macbeth Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Jan Latham-König, Conductor Ralf Långbacka, Stage Director Anneli Qveflander, Set Designer Stephen Gaertner, Baritone: Macbeth Csilla Boross, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Carlo Colombara, Bass: Banquo Warren Mok, Tenor: Macduff Hannu Jurmu, Tenor: Malcolm Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Friday 26-Jul-13 07:00pm The masterly music composed by Giuseppe Verdi for Shakespeare’s powerful drama, combined with the highly-acclaimed direction of Ralf Långbacka and the costumes and stage designs of Anneli Qveflander together create one of the most successful productions in the history of the Savonlinna Opera Festival. This Macbeth has also been frequently seen on other stages, both in guest performances by the Savonlinna Opera Festival and in rental productions.When lust for power spurs husband and wife to ever more dastardly deeds, an honourable nobleman and first-rate soldier can turn into a human monster who, to be on the safe side, stops at nothing to liquidate any who stand in his way, both friend and foe. This perspective, highlighted in Långbacka’s vision, makes the Savonlinna Macbeth a more human and more “ordinary” character than the one presented in many other productions. And hence so credible and moving. Jan Latham-König, Conductor Ralf Långbacka, Stage Director Anneli Qveflander, Set Designer Stephen Gaertner, Baritone: Macbeth Csilla Boross, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Carlo Colombara, Bass: Banquo Warren Mok, Tenor: Macduff Hannu Jurmu, Tenor: Malcolm Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Saturday 27-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna La traviata Savonlinna Opera Festival |
Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Venera Gimadieva, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix TBA, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Daniel Sutin, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Saturday 27-Jul-13 07:00pm In honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Savonlinna Opera Festival is adding to its repertoire one of the best-loved and most frequently-performed operas of all time. For many an opera lover this will mean a long-cherished dream come true: La traviata at last in Savonlinna!
Can a flighty courtesan accustomed to a life of pleasure genuinely fall in love, and does she deserve true happiness? Verdi was clearly inspired by this tragic, beautiful love story about Violetta and Alfredo, built round these fundamental questions. The music of La traviata is some of his very finest: coloratura arias that bubble like champagne, and melodies that play exquisitely on the ear follow one upon the other like a row of sparkling gems, pampering the listener again and again. Paolo Olmi, Conductor Stefano Romano, Conductor Mariusz Treliński, Director Boris Kudlicka, Set Designer Venera Gimadieva, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix TBA, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Daniel Sutin, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra | ||
| Sunday 28-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna Verdi: Requiem Savonlinna Opera Festival |
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| Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, Savonlinna 57150, Finland Sunday 28-Jul-13 07:00pm Verdi: Requiem The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting for four soloists, double choir and orchestra. It was composed in 1873-1874 in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian writer and patriot much admired by Verdi.
The composer himself conducted the premiere of the Mass in St.Mark's Catherdral, Milan on 22 May, 1874. | ||
