Organ Night & Aria: Finnish National Opera Gala – Masters and Voices of the Future

Young soloists of the Finnish National Opera:

Anna Barletta, soprano

Hanna Juntunen, soprano

Laura Pörsti, mezzo-soprano

Sarah Zieba, mezzo-soprano

Jere Hölttä, tenor

Otso Sipilä, tenor

Finnish National Opera Orchestra

Mikael Loponen, conductor

Mika Pohjonen, tenor

Koit Soasepp, bass

Young soloists and the Finnish National Opera Orchestra meet in an unforgettable evening of opera. The programme takes the listener from the energetic overture to Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra to well-known arias by Verdi and Puccini, as well as Mozart’s humorous bass solos. The duet and quartet selections include beloved gems such as Verdi’s Celeste Aidaand the famous Flower Duet from Léo Delibes’ opera Lakmé. The evening culminates in Verdi’s celebrated quartet “Bella figlia dell’amore” from Rigoletto. A truly enchanting night of opera awaits in the August evening.

PROGRAMME:

Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)

La gazza ladra – Overture

Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)

“Ritorna vincitor!”

(Aida)

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)

“Sì, mi chiamano Mimì”

(La bohème)

Giuseppe Verdi

“O figli miei… Ah, la paterna mano”

(Macbeth)

Léo Delibes (1836–1891)

“Dôme épais le jasmin”

(Lakmé, Flower Duet)

Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)

“Sì, vuol di Francia il Rege… Ah! quando all'ara scórgemi”

(Maria Stuarda)

Giuseppe Verdi

“Celeste Aida”

(Aida)

Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945)

Intermezzo

(Cavalleria rusticana)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

“Parto, parto!”

(La clemenza di Tito)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

“Kuda, kuda…”

(Eugene Onegin)

Otto Nicolai (1810–1849)

“Als Büblein klein (Trinklied)”

(Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor)

Salvatore Cardillo (1874–1947)

Core ’ngrato

Giuseppe Verdi

Quartet “Bella figlia dell’amore”

(Rigoletto)

CONCERT DURATION:

Approx. 80 minutes, no intermission