The Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez are returning to Ljubljana after two years. They will again collaborate with RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, with which they already performed at the 70th Ljubljana Festival and received standing ovations. Flórez began his musical career as a singer and performer of Peruvian traditional and popular music, then studied in Philadelphia. Since making his professional debut in 1996 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, he has performed in the major opera houses in Milan, Berlin, Salzburg, New York, Vienna and Zurich under the direction of some of the world’s leading conductors, recorded numerous CDs and won many awards. Oksana Lyniv studied music in Lviv, where she went on to establish the LvivMozArt international festival. In 2013 she became assistant music director to Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera, in 2017 chief conductor of the Graz Opera, and since 2022 she has been the music director of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. In 2021, she became the first woman to conduct at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival. In addition to her international career as a conductor, she is a passionate advocate for classical music in Ukraine, and a Ukrainian cultural ambassador around the world.
Programme:
Vincenzo Bellini:
Overture to I Capuleti e i Montecchi
“O di Capellio, generosi amici”, Tybalt’s aria from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
“E serbato a questo acciaro”, Tybalt’s aria from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
“L’amo tanto, e m’è si cara”, Tybalt’s aria from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Gaetano Donizetti:
“Inosservato penetrava… Angelo casto e bel”, Marcello’s aria from Il duca d’Alba
“Ed ancor la tremenda porta… Come uno spirito angelico… Bagnato il sen di lagrime”, Roberto’s aria from Roberto Devereux
Gioachino Rossini:
Overture to William Tell
“Che sorda al mesto piano… Ah! Come nascondere”, Oreste’s aria from Ermione
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Charles Gounod: “Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! demeure chaste et pure”, Faust’s aria from Faust
Jules Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
Jacques Offenbach: “Au mont Ida”, Paris’s aria from La Belle Hélene
Giuseppe Verdi:
Overture to I Vespri Siciliani
“Ah sì, ch’io senta ancora, ch’io respiri… Dal più remoto esilio… Odio solo, ed odio atroce” Jacopo’s aria from I due Foscari
Overture to La traviata
“Oh! fede negar potessi… Quando le sere al placido… L’ara, o l’avello”, Rodolfo’s aria from Luisa Miller
