Grand Opera for the New Year
NEW YEAR’S CONCERT
NEW YEAR’S CONCERT
Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868)
Overture from «Il signor Bruschino»
«Non si da follia maggiore» from «Il turco in Italia»
Charles Gounod (1818 – 1893)
Juliet’s Waltz «Je veux vivre» from«Roméo et Juliette»
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
Overture from «Luisa Miller»
«Mercé dilette amiche» from «I Vespri siciliani»
Luigi Arditi (1822 – 1903)
«Il bacio»
Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840 – 1893)
Symphony No. 1 «Winter Dreams» in G minor op. 13
Whether in Mozart or Rossini, bel canto or Russian romanticism, Johann Strauss or Franz Lehár – Olga Peretyatko feels at home in all musical styles and epochs. These are actually ideal prerequisites for an operatic diva, but it is precisely this attribute that she dislikes. “I am a singer and I try to give my best. What people call me is not my business, but I am not a diva because that is an old-fashioned word with negative implications.” Instead, she sees herself as a modern singer who is entirely open to provocative staging. Either way, on stage she is bursting with temperament and always overwhelms listeners with her subtle skills of interpretation. This is guaranteed to be an exhilarating musical departure into the New Year.
This concert is supported by the “Freunde Luzerner Sinfonieorchester”.