Familiar with our recitals?
These “solo” performances aim to enrich our festival program in terms of musical diversity while showcasing exceptional artists and developing further the chosen theme of each edition. As for the genre? There is nothing at all old-fashioned about recitals. Their great strength is precisely the unique relationship they allow artists to create with the audience. The intimacy of this concert form leads not only to privileged moments of encounter and exchange, but also to an entirely different way of experiencing music. During this 5th Mozartiade, Gianna Cañete Gallo and Shadi Torbey (both familiar to our regular festival goers) will transport us to ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of great 18th century composers. These two recitals will present famous arias from opere serie, a genre to which Mozart would return one last time with his La clemenza di Tito. This year, our series will be completed by four young singers from the Studio Lyrique of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi in a programme based on the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy, a repertoire that is dear to our hearts.
wednsday 24.6
DONNE ROMANE E BARBARE REGINE
An evening with Poppea, Cleopatra, Celia, Ilia and other heroines from the works of Handel and Mozart. Soprano Gianna Cañete Gallo (Konstanze in 2019, Barbarina in 2016) and pianist Lucas Blondeel (artist in residence in 2019) will bring to life some of the most ravishing pages from masterpieces including Agrippina, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Mitridate re di Ponto, Lucio Silla and Idomeneo. An this intimate encounter with two exceptional Belgian artists!
"And, at the summit of the sextet, we salute the two sopranos, Gianna Cañete Gallo (Konstanze) with her ravishing and "colourful" high notes and Dorine Mortelemans (Blondchen) with her long and luminous voice, both ideal in highly exposed roles, which they assume with confounding mastery and freedom, stage sense notwithstanding." (“Vertigineuse lecture de L’Enlèvement au Sérail”, La Libre Belgique, 4.7.2019)
“Lucas Blondeel is the brilliant soloist, injecting the keyboard part with just the right amount of expressive feedom. He provides his own cadenzas, and even manages at one point to quote Mozart’s D minor Fantasy, K397.” (“Haydn symphonies with bags of character and wit”, BBC Music Magazine, 12.12.2019)
friday 26.6
ROMANI!
An evening with four emperors, two soldiers and a philospher. Bass Shadi Torbey (Osmin in 2019, Don Alfonso in 2018, Leporello in 2017, Figaro in 2016) will delight us with his interpretations of arias by Caldara, Gluck, Handel, Heinichen, Monteverdi and Vivaldi. He will be accompanied on baroque instruments by Aymeric de Villoutreys (violin), Blanca Pietro (violin), Marina Eichberg (viola) and Eugénie Lalonde (cello). They will present such forgotten operatic treasures as La clemenza di Tito (in versions by Caldara and Gluck), Flavio Crispo, Tito Manlio or Ezio. You won’t want to miss this unique rendezvous with this remarkable Belgian singer!
“By entrusting the role of Osmin to Shadi Torbey, the directors have struck a double blow: not only does the Belgian bass (3rd laureate of Queen Elisabeth 2004, not to forget) perform at the pinnacle of his vocal form and provide the ensembles with a precious foundation, but his sense of the stage and, it has to be said, his darkly seductive allure create a symmetry between the two couples formed, on the one hand, by Blondchen and himself and, on the other, by Konstanze and Pacha Selim”.
(“Vertigineuse lecture de L’Enlèvement au Sérail”, La Libre Belgique, 4.7.2019)
saturday 27.6
LA TRILOGIE AU STUDIO
An entertaining evening with fresh new talent in a repertoire close to the hearts of Mozart fans the world over! Four young artists from the Studio Lyrique of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi (soprano Doris Brasseur, mezzo-soprano Marie-Juliette Ghazarian, tenor Kenny Ferreira, baritone Halidou Nombre) will regale you with excerpts from the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy (Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte). Their first participation in our festival marks the beginning of a promising collaboration between two organizations working in a single spirit to promote emerging opera talent in Belgium.
The Studio Lyrique was set up by the PBA Charleroi to meet its objectives of production, artistic training and outreach in the areas of opera, operetta and musical theatre. Each year, this adventure allows student singers to take part in a workshop production staged by renowned international artists. Thus far, this initiative has resulted in lighter versions of Les Contes d’Hoffmann (2017), Manon (2018), Carmen (2019) and Cosi fan tutt' (2020).
www.pba.be
These “solo” performances aim to enrich our festival program in terms of musical diversity while showcasing exceptional artists and developing further the chosen theme of each edition. As for the genre? There is nothing at all old-fashioned about recitals. Their great strength is precisely the unique relationship they allow artists to create with the audience. The intimacy of this concert form leads not only to privileged moments of encounter and exchange, but also to an entirely different way of experiencing music. During this 5th Mozartiade, Gianna Cañete Gallo and Shadi Torbey (both familiar to our regular festival goers) will transport us to ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of great 18th century composers. These two recitals will present famous arias from opere serie, a genre to which Mozart would return one last time with his La clemenza di Tito. This year, our series will be completed by four young singers from the Studio Lyrique of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi in a programme based on the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy, a repertoire that is dear to our hearts.
wednsday 24.6
DONNE ROMANE E BARBARE REGINE
An evening with Poppea, Cleopatra, Celia, Ilia and other heroines from the works of Handel and Mozart. Soprano Gianna Cañete Gallo (Konstanze in 2019, Barbarina in 2016) and pianist Lucas Blondeel (artist in residence in 2019) will bring to life some of the most ravishing pages from masterpieces including Agrippina, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Mitridate re di Ponto, Lucio Silla and Idomeneo. An this intimate encounter with two exceptional Belgian artists!
"And, at the summit of the sextet, we salute the two sopranos, Gianna Cañete Gallo (Konstanze) with her ravishing and "colourful" high notes and Dorine Mortelemans (Blondchen) with her long and luminous voice, both ideal in highly exposed roles, which they assume with confounding mastery and freedom, stage sense notwithstanding." (“Vertigineuse lecture de L’Enlèvement au Sérail”, La Libre Belgique, 4.7.2019)
“Lucas Blondeel is the brilliant soloist, injecting the keyboard part with just the right amount of expressive feedom. He provides his own cadenzas, and even manages at one point to quote Mozart’s D minor Fantasy, K397.” (“Haydn symphonies with bags of character and wit”, BBC Music Magazine, 12.12.2019)
friday 26.6
ROMANI!
An evening with four emperors, two soldiers and a philospher. Bass Shadi Torbey (Osmin in 2019, Don Alfonso in 2018, Leporello in 2017, Figaro in 2016) will delight us with his interpretations of arias by Caldara, Gluck, Handel, Heinichen, Monteverdi and Vivaldi. He will be accompanied on baroque instruments by Aymeric de Villoutreys (violin), Blanca Pietro (violin), Marina Eichberg (viola) and Eugénie Lalonde (cello). They will present such forgotten operatic treasures as La clemenza di Tito (in versions by Caldara and Gluck), Flavio Crispo, Tito Manlio or Ezio. You won’t want to miss this unique rendezvous with this remarkable Belgian singer!
“By entrusting the role of Osmin to Shadi Torbey, the directors have struck a double blow: not only does the Belgian bass (3rd laureate of Queen Elisabeth 2004, not to forget) perform at the pinnacle of his vocal form and provide the ensembles with a precious foundation, but his sense of the stage and, it has to be said, his darkly seductive allure create a symmetry between the two couples formed, on the one hand, by Blondchen and himself and, on the other, by Konstanze and Pacha Selim”.
(“Vertigineuse lecture de L’Enlèvement au Sérail”, La Libre Belgique, 4.7.2019)
saturday 27.6
LA TRILOGIE AU STUDIO
An entertaining evening with fresh new talent in a repertoire close to the hearts of Mozart fans the world over! Four young artists from the Studio Lyrique of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi (soprano Doris Brasseur, mezzo-soprano Marie-Juliette Ghazarian, tenor Kenny Ferreira, baritone Halidou Nombre) will regale you with excerpts from the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy (Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte). Their first participation in our festival marks the beginning of a promising collaboration between two organizations working in a single spirit to promote emerging opera talent in Belgium.
The Studio Lyrique was set up by the PBA Charleroi to meet its objectives of production, artistic training and outreach in the areas of opera, operetta and musical theatre. Each year, this adventure allows student singers to take part in a workshop production staged by renowned international artists. Thus far, this initiative has resulted in lighter versions of Les Contes d’Hoffmann (2017), Manon (2018), Carmen (2019) and Cosi fan tutt' (2020).
www.pba.be
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