The Baden-Baden Opera Gala 2016

About this event

“An extraordinary evening full of emotions!” – that is how the press called “the concert event of the year”: Anja Harteros, Ekaterina Gubanova, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel, four singers in a league of their own, presented an extraordinary summit of classical music superstars. 

Accompanied by the Badische Staatskapelle under the baton of Marco Armiliato, the star-studded cast took the audience on a long journey, exploring some of the most remarkable and popular operas and combining all the features of this supreme musical genre in a single concert: beauty, magical sound, tragedy, and overflowing passion. A bouquet of arias and duets cast a spell on the audience from the very first note, offering something for everyone – from the musical connoisseur to the layman who rarely listens to classical music. From the touching “Morró, ma prima grazia“ from Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera sung by Anja Harteros over Bryn Terfels devilish “Le veau d´or est toujours debout” from Gounods Faust to Jonas Kaufmanns and Ekaterina Gubanovas dramatic rendition of the central duet from Mascagni’s verismo masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana, it was an evening of “pure bliss” (Der Neue Merker).

The cast, which the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden has managed to assemble for this unique and long sold out concert, is truly every impresario’s dream: Jonas Kaufmann, the “the most important, versatile tenor of his generation”. (New York Times). Anja Harteros is celebrated as “Soprano of the century” and “the Stradivari of all voices”. Welsh-star Baritone Bryn Terfel is among the most prominent and powerful voices in the world of classical music and at home on the world’s most renowned opera and concert stages. Which is also true for Ekaterina Gubanova, one of the greatest mezzo-sopranos of the last generations, who frequently performs at the greatest opera houses, such as the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper and Staatsoper Berlin.

Featuring

Conductor: Marco Armiliato

Orchestra: Badische Staatskapelle

Soprano: Anja Harteros

Mezzo-soprano: Ekaterina Gubanova

Tenor: Jonas Kaufmann

Bass-baritone: Bryn Terfel

Repertoire

1. Richard Wagner: “Dich, teure Halle, grüß’ ich wieder” from Tannhäuser

2. Charles Gounod: “Le veau d’or” from Faust

3. Pietro Mascagni: “Voi lo sapete, o mamma” from Cavalleria Rusticana

4. Giacomo Puccini: “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca

5. Arrigo Boito: “Son lo spirito che nega” from Mefistofele

6. Giuseppe Verdi: “Morrò, ma prima in grazia” from Un Ballo in Maschera

7. Pietro Mascagni: “Tu qui, Santuzza” from Cavalleria Rusticana

8. Francesco Cilea: “Acerba voluttà … L’anima ho stanca …” from Adriana Lecouvreur

9. Giacomo Puccini: “Mario! Con te! … Vissi d’arte” from Tosca

10. Giuseppe Verdi: “Ella giammai m’amò” from Don Carlo

11. Giuseppe Verdi: “Tu che le vanità” from Don Carlo

12. Giuseppe Verdi: “Già nella notte densa” from Otello

13. Georges Bizet: “Habanera” from Carmen

14. Pietro Mascagni: “Son pochi fiori” from L’amico Fritz

15. Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick: “If I Were A Rich Man” from Fiddler on the Roof

16. Nino Rota/Giandomenico Boncompagni: “Parla più piano”

17. Franz Lehár: “Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” from Das Land des Lächelns

Duration: approx. 139 minutes.

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