Asmik Grigorian: Midsummer Night’s Gala 2023
Асмик Григорян: Гала-концерт в летнюю ночь
Actors
Crew
Conductor
Yutaka Sado
Video Director
Heidelinde Haschek
For a decade and a half, the Midsummer Night’s Gala has ushered-in the summer season at the Wolkenturm. It is also Grafenegg’s flagship media event, televised around the world. The best artists take centre stage, casting their spell over the audience amidst the idyllic scenery of the Castle grounds. For the cast of this edition – Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian, American tenor Eric Cutler and French cellist Gautier Capuçon – Yutaka Sado, principal conductor of the Tonkünstler-Orchester, has put together a dramatic gala programme, with works by Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Prokofiev, Leoncavallo and Dvořák.
“Eric Cutler’s tenor was soaring, Gautier Capuçon’s cello melting, the Tonkünstler Orchestra sovereign. And simply stunning the soprano of Lithuania’s opera superstar Asmik Grigorian” (Niederösterreichische Nachrichten)
“‘Già nella notte densa’ (‘Now in the night’s silence’) […] surely one of the most beautiful and significant love duets in all of opera literature. And it was all the more effective when it was sung as movingly as by Asmik Grigorian and Erich Cutler.” (Kurier)
Programme:
“Eric Cutler’s tenor was soaring, Gautier Capuçon’s cello melting, the Tonkünstler Orchestra sovereign. And simply stunning the soprano of Lithuania’s opera superstar Asmik Grigorian” (Niederösterreichische Nachrichten)
“‘Già nella notte densa’ (‘Now in the night’s silence’) […] surely one of the most beautiful and significant love duets in all of opera literature. And it was all the more effective when it was sung as movingly as by Asmik Grigorian and Erich Cutler.” (Kurier)
Programme:
- Carl Maria von Weber, Overture to the opera Euryanthe
- Richard Wagner, “In fernem Land”. Grail narrative of Lohengrin from the opera Lohengrin
- Antonín Dvořák, Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104: III. Finale. Allegro moderato
- Antonín Dvořák, “Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém.” / “O moon high up in the deep sky”. Aria of Rusalka from the opera Rusalka
- Antonín Dvořák, Slavonic Dance in C major, Op. 46/1
- Giacomo Puccini, “Sola, perduta, abbandonata”. Aria of Manon from the opera Manon Lescaut
- Jules Massenet, “Ô souverain, ô juge, ô père!” Aria of Rodrigue from the opera Le Cid
- Giuseppe Verdi, Sinfonia to the opera Un giorno di regno
- Ruggero Leoncavallo, “Vesti la giubba”. Aria of Canio from the opera Pagliacci
- Giacomo Puccini, “Un bel dì vedremo”. Aria of Butterfly from the opera Madama Butterfly
- Sergei Prokofiev, Dance of the Knights from the ballet Romeo and Juliet (Arrangement: Jérôme Ducros)
- Giuseppe Verdi, “Già nella notte densa”. Duet of Desdemona and Otello from the opera Otello
- Edward Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance, March, Op. 39/1
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