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19:00 | Adela Zaharia (Romania) |
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 Adela Zaharia has purst celestial soprano. In 2017, this Romanian singer made a sensation during one of the world’s most prestigious opera competitions “Operalia” of Placido Domingo. There she won Gran Prix! Today Adela is a world opera star. She was brilliant as Violetta in “Traviata” staged at the Los Angeles Opera, as Gilda and Mary Stuart in respectively “Rigoletto” and “Mary Stuart” staged in German Deutsche Oper am Rhein… She is also no stranger to contemporary music, in 2018, for instance, she sang at the premiere of the English composer Iain Bell's “Aurora”. Her repertoire can be very vast, but a very special place in it occupies Mozart. She sang Donna Anna (“Don Giovanni”), Pamina (“Magic Flute”), and Konstanze (“The Abduction from the Seraglio”). Legendary chamber orchestra Camerata Salzburg is on stage with Adela. This legendary orchestra, founded in 1951 by Bernhard Paumgartner at Mozarteum University Salzburg, is considered a benchmark of Mozart’s music, with its reference “Mozart sound”. Camerata Salzburg is a resident of Salzburg Festival.
Zaryadye Concert Hall  |
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20:00 | Al Mckay's Earth, Wind and Fire (USA) |
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 Earth, Wind and Fire took jazz, soul, gospel, pop and more and wrapped them in one psychedelic, mystical package. Few groups were as innovative yet beloved by critics and audiences as EW&F. During the latter half of the Seventies, the band issued a string of albums that changed the face of black popular music, linking thrilling music with uplifting messages of racial pride, African consciousness and spiritual unity. A large and visually resplendent ensemble, its members often wore colorful African robes. The group was known for employing magic tricks (often directed by the late Doug Henning) in their elaborate late-Seventies stage shows. Even so, the anthemic power of “Shining Star,” “Serpentine Fire,” “Getaway” and numerous other crossover hits proved that Earth, Wind and Fire’s music could stand on its own. Earth, Wind and Fire attracted a then-untapped audience of hip, young urban black and white fans that reacted to the energetic music and charismatic presentation. Over the years, Earth, Wind and Fire has won numerous awards and honors. The band has been nominated for seventeen Grammys and has won six; it has been nominated for twelve American Music Awards and has won four.
Crocus City Hall |
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19:00 | Etienne Walhain (Belgium) |
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 Born in Belgium, Etienne Walhain is the appointed organist of the Ducroquet and Merklin organ at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai (B). He is the recipient of no less than 8 prizes, obtained while he was studing at the Royal Conservatory of Mons and Brussels, the Conservatory of Luxembourg-Ville and at the National Conservatory of Lyon (classes attended with Zbigniew Kruczek, Stéphane Detournay, Louis Robilliard and Jean-Jaques Kasel). Meeting the French composer Jean Guillou in 1998, with whom he worked for 10 years in Paris and Zürich, was a major turning point in his career. Etienne Walhain is currently pursuing his career as a concert artist, which has, to date, taken him throughout Europe, the USA and Canada. In Moscow, Walhain will perform G.F. Haendel's Concerto in G minor Op.4/1 (Transcription by Jean Guillou), Franz Liszt's Orpheus (Transcription by Jean Guillou), Max Reger's Introduction and passacaglia in D minor, J.S. Bach's Prelude and fugue in D major BWV 532 and M. Moussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition (Transcription by Jean Guillou).
MMDM Svetlanov Hall |
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