Program

Carl Maria von Weber, Euryanthe

Overture

Richard Wagner, Lohengrin, WWV 75

III: "In fernem Land"

Antonín Dvořák, Cello Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 104

3. Finale – Allegro moderato

Antonín Dvořák, Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203

"Mĕsičku na nebi hlubokém" (Song to the Moon)

Antonín Dvořák, Slavonic Dances, Op. 46

No. 1 in C Major (Furiant)

Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut

Sola, perduta, abbandonata

Jules Massenet, Le Cid

"Ô Souverain, ô juge, ô père"

Giuseppe Verdi, Un giorno di regno

Overture

Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci

« Vesti la giubba »

Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly

II: "Un bel dì, vedremo"

Sergei Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet

Dance of the Knights

Giuseppe Verdi, Otello

I: "Già nella notte densa"

Edward Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches, Op. 39

Asmik Grigorian performs arias by Puccini, Verdi and Dvořák – With Eric Cutler and Gautier Capuçon

A Midsummer Night's Gala alongside Yukata Sado and the Tonkünstler Orchestra

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Cast

Asmik Grigorian  — Soprano

Eric Cutler  — Tenor

Gautier Capuçon  — Cellist

Tonkünstler Orchestra  — Orchestra

Yutaka Sado  — Conductor

Program notes

The 2023 edition of the Grafenegg Festival opens in style with unmissable performances by three dazzlingly talented soloists: multi-award-winning soprano Asmik Grigorian, internationally acclaimed tenor Eric Cutler, and superstar cellist Gautier Capuçon. On the breathtaking, open-air Wolkenturm stage, the soloists join Yutaka Sado and the Tonkünstler Orchestra for an impressive program of Wagner, Dvořák, Puccini, Massenet, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Prokofiev — an outstanding evening of music, capped off by orchestral extracts by Weber and Elgar.

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