A singing voice is a delicate asset to be protected. The opportunities it offers cannot be abused. The majority of opera singers are only proficient within a single repertoire. The natural characteristics of some voices predestine singers to excel in the Baroque and Viennese classical repertoires, while others spend their lives mastering the difficult passages of Wagner and Richard Strauss. Others still perform the coloratura of bel canto operas with incredible skill. Former member of the Mariinsky Theatre's children's choir, one-time student of the Hamburg Opera Studio, and prize winner of the Plácido Domingo-sponsored 2007 Operalia competition, Olga Peretyatko is a remarkable artist: her repertoire has almost no limits. She sings Handel and Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss, while the rarer Rossini pieces have also played an especially important role in her career. This is not to mention her Russian repertoire, her linguistic and musical mother tongue, which includes Stravinsky. The audience will get a taste of this versatility, one of the artist's great charms, at this aria evening where, besides the works of the three great bel canto composers Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, the music of Offenbach, Gounod and Glinka will also be served up.
Michelangelo Mazza, the committed and experienced opera conductor, will take over direction of the Hungary State Opera Orchestra for the evening.
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - ouverture
Mozart: Don Giovanni - Non mi dir… (Aria Donna Anna)
Bellini: Norma - ouverture
Bellini: Norma - Casta Diva
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia - ouverture
Donizetti: Anna Bolena - Al dolce guidami…coppia iniqua
Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 - Menuet
Donizetti: Lammermoori Lucia - Regnava nel silenzio
Rachmaninov: Vocalise, op. 34, No. 14
Verdi: La forza del destino - ouverture
Verdi: A szicíliai vecsernye - Mercé dilette amiche (Elena's Bolero)
Verdi: Luisa Miller - Lo vidi e'l primo palpito
Massenet: Thaïs - Méditation
Gounod: Roméo et Julietta - Je veux vivre