Archive: Midsummer Night’s Gala

Grafenegg Wolkenturm

Yutaka Sado

Yutaka Sado • conductor

Das Tonkünstler-Orchester

Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich • orchestra

Piotr Beczala

Piotr Beczala • tenor

Julia Fischer

Julia Fischer • violin

Elisabeth Kulman

Elisabeth Kulman • mezzosoprano

Artists

Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich
Piotr Beczala, tenor
Elisabeth Kulman, mezzosoprano
Julia Fischer, violin
Yutaka Fischer, conductor

Programme

Georges Bizet
Opera Prelude «Carmen»

Jules Massenet
«Pourquoi me reveiller» Werther's Aria from the Opera «Werther»

Camille Saint-Saëns
«Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix» Dalila's Aria from the Opera «Samson et Dalila»

Georges Bizet
«La fleur que tu m'avais jetée» Don José's Aria from the Opera «Carmen»

Georges Bizet
«Prés des remparts de Séville» Seguidilla from the Opera «Carmen»

Pablo de Sarasate
Concerto fantasia vor Violin and Orchestra about Georges Bizet's Opera «Carmen» op. 25

Giuseppe Verdi
«Stride la vampa» Azucena's Aria from the Opera «Il Trovatore»

Manuel de Falla
Fire Dance from the Suite «El amor brujo»

Emmerich Kálmán
«Grüß mir die süßen, die reizenden Frauen im schönen Wien» Tassilo's Song from the Operetta «Gräfin Mariza»

Pablo de Sarasate
«Introduktion & Tarantella» for Violin and Orchestra op. 43

Franz Lehár
«Dein ist mein ganzes Herz» Sou Chong's Song from the Operetta «Das Land des Lächelns»

Cole Porter
Overture from the Musical «Kiss me Kate»

Cole Porter
«I hate men» Katherine's Song from the Musical «Kiss me Kate»

Emmerich Kálmán
«Tanzen möcht' ich» Duet Edwin - Sylvia from the Operetta «Die Csárdásfürstin»

Introduction/abstract

Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich • Elisabeth Kulman • Piotr Beczala • Julia Fischer • Yutaka Sado

Bizet • Massenet • Saint-Saëns • de Sarasate • Verdi • Kálmán • Lehár • Porter

As the sun sets in the evening, so the excitement rises: the Grafenegg season opens in celebratory mood with a star-studded Midsummer Night’s Gala.

The first guest is mezzo soprano Elisabeth Kulman, one of the leading exponents of Austrian opera culture. Her colleague Piotr Beczala began his international career in Austria and meanwhile made a career in many of the famous opera houses all over the world.

Violinist Julia Fischer provides the Midsummer Night’s Gala’s with virtuosic splendour in 2015. An immensely versatile musician at home on all the world’s stages, she was the recipient of the Deutscher Kulturpreis in 2011.

Chief conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra is Yutaka Sado, who takes over the post of Andrés Orozco-Estrada in autumn 2015.