FRYDERYK CHOPIN’S FAVOURITE ARIAS AND OPERA DUETS
Aleksandra Kurzak – soprano
Sylvie Brunet – mezzo-soprano
Antonio Gandia – tenor
David Sotgiu – tenor
Alexander Gergalov – baritone
Rafał Siwek – bass
Chorus and Orchestra of the Polish National Opera
Conductor: Marco Boemi
Script and staging: Jarosław Kilian
Chorus Master: Bogdan Gola
Lights: Stanisław Zięba
Hosted by Anna Seniuk and Grzegorz Małecki
The concert is among the events concluding the Chopin Year
Programme
Part 1
- Gioachino Rossini – overture to the opera The Thieving Magpie (Orchestra of the Polish National Opera)
- Gioachino Rossini – Tancredi’s cavatina from act 1 of the opera Tancredi - Di tanti palpiti (Sylvie Brunet )
- Gioachino Rossini – Amenaide and Tancredi’s duet from act 2 of the opera Tancredi
(Sylvie Brunet and Aleksandra Kurzak) - Vincenzo Bellini – overture to the opera I Capuleti e Montecchi (Orchestra of the Polish National Opera)
- Vincenzo Bellini – Suoni la tromba duet from the opera I Puritani (Alexander Gergalov and Rafał Siwek)
- Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia’s aria from act 1 of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor - Regnava nel silenzio
(Aleksandra Kurzak)
- Gaetano Donizetti – Tonio’s cavatina Miei buon amiche from act 1 of the opera Daughter of the Regiment
(Antonio Gandi and Chorus of the Polish National Opera) - Gaetano Donizetti – chorus No. 16 Che interminabile from act 3 of the opera Don Pasquale
(Chorus of the Polish National Opera) - Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia and Edgar’s duet (No. 4) Sulla tomba che rinserra from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor (Aleksandra Kurzak and Antonio Gandia)
Part 2
- Giacomo Meyerbeer – Bacchanalia from act 3 of the opera Robert le Diable (Orchestra of the Polish National Opera)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Zerlina and Don Giovanni’s duet La ci darem la mano from the opera Don Giovanni
(Aleksandra Kurzak and Alexander Gergalov) - Gioachino Rossini – Basilio’s aria La calunnia from act 1 of the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rafał Siwek)
- Gioachino Rossini – Duetto buffo di due gatti (Sylvie Brunet and Aleksandra Kurzak)
- Gioachino Rossini – Figaro’s aria Largo al factotum from act 1 of the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
(Alexander Gergalov) - Vincenzo Bellini – Qui la selva chorus from act 2 of the opera La Sonnambula (Chorus of the Polish National Opera)
- Vincenzo Bellini – Elvino’s aria Tutto e sciolto... from act 2 of the opera La Sonnambula
(Antonio Gandia and Chorus of the Polish National Opera) - Gaetano Donizetti – overture to the opera Don Pasquale (Orchestra of the Polish National Opera)
- Gaetano Donizetti – sextet from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor
(all soloists and Chorus of the Polish National Opera)
"I prefer Chopin coming from an open window, in the street, to Chopin in great style on a concert stage" (Gombrowicz, Diary).
The programme of this year’s New Year’s Eve gala, comprising Chopin’s favourite opera arias and duets, is Gombrowiczesque through and through in its form. In the arias and duets of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Weber, the evening’s guests will hear Fryderyk’s music “coming from an open window”. "The evening will see the fulfilment of George Sand’s prophecy: The day will come … when the whole world will learn that his genius, just as vast, complete, and wise as that of the greatest masters whose works he assimilated, retained an individuality even more sophisticated than Bach’s, even more powerful than Beethoven’s, even more dramatic than Weber’s".
The concert at the Polish National Opera features: Aleksandra Kurzak who appears at venues such as New York's Metropolitan Opera and London's Royal Opera House, Sylvie Brunet, who is familiar to audiences of Milan’s La Scala and the Paris Opera, and Alexander Gergalov, who is applauded at the Met and other leading opera houses. The conductor is Marco Boemi. So… "let’s try and get this bored crowd to enjoy themselves (Fellini, 8½), remembering as we propose a New Year’s toast that "if Chopin were alive, he would drink" (Wyspiański, The Wedding).
Poster designed by Ignacy Czwartos/Adam Żebrowski
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