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International Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival presents Giuseppe Verdi. Requiem. Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala. Conductor - Riccardo Chailly. Chorus Master - Bruno Casoni. Soloists: María José Siri (soprano), Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor), Dmitry Beloselskiy (bass).
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19:00 | VIII RNO Grand Festival. Rossini, Opera "Ermione" |
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 Russian National Orchestra, Art Director – Mikhail Pletnev. Conductor – Alberto Zedda (Italy); Angela Meade (soprano, USA); Enea Scala (tenor, Italy); Chiara Amaru (contralto, Italy); Antonino Siragusa (tenor, Italy); Alexander Miminoshvilli (bass-baritone); Yaroslav Abaimov (tenor); Anastasia Shchegoleva (soprano); Margarita Kalinina (mezzo-soprano); Igor Morozov (tenor). Choir of the Choir Arts Academy. Russian National Orchestra has been in demand throughout the music world ever since its 1990 Moscow premiere. Of the orchestra's 1996 debut at the BBC Proms in London, the Evening Standard wrote, "They played with such captivating beauty that the audience gave an involuntary sigh of pleasure." More recently, they were described as "a living symbol of the best in Russian art" (Miami Herald) and "as close to perfect as one could hope for" (Trinity Mirror). Alberto Zedda was born in Milan, Italy, where he accomplished his education in music and humanities, completed at the Musical Palaeography School of Cremona. In 1957 he won the International Italian Radio and Television Competition for Conductors and thereafter was invited to appear with important Institutions in Italy (La Scala, Santa Cecilia, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the TV-Radio Orchestras of Rome, Turin, Milan, Naples…) and abroad in Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Israel, United States, China, Japan…He has always dedicated part of his time to musicology, editing widely successful critical versions of operas, oratorios and cantatas, with particular attention to Rossini and to the first half of the 19th Century and early baroque repertoire. Nowday he is Artistic Director of the Rossini Opera Festival and Director of the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro. Hailed as “the most talked about soprano of her generation” (Opera News), American soprano Angela Meade is the winner of both the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the 2011 Richard Tucker Award. In 2008 she joined an elite group of history’s singers when, as Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani, she made her professional operatic debut on the Met stage. Since then she has fast become recognized as one of today’s outstanding vocalists, excelling in the most demanding heroines of the 19th-century bel canto repertoire as well as in the operas of Verdi and Mozart. As the New Yorker put it, “Meade is astounding. … She has exceptional dynamic control, able to move from floating pianissimos to sudden dramatic swells. The coloratura effects – rapid runs, trills, delicate turns, and so on – are handled with uncommon ease. She is a very musical singer, naturally and intelligently riding the phrase.”
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