Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Garanča Mesmerizes Barbican Audience

ELINA GARANCA AT THE BARBICAN


The concert was simply magnificent. Elina and her husband, maestro Karel Chichon with the London Symphony Orchestra, delivered a fireworks of alternately accentuated finesse and emotional explosions that left the audience - me included - breathless and on its feet with endless rounds of applause.

This woman is a world star of the opera scene. Watch out for years of exciting and reverberating performances from this still young mezzo-sopranos. I am going to look through her catalogue to-date and am sure to get CDs with her.


It's been a wonderful evening!

List of the programme

Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Tchaikovsky Aria of Johanna from The Maid of Orleans
Massenet Meditation from Thaïs
Saint-Saëns Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix from Samson et Dalila
Saint-Saëns Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila
Gounod Plus grand, dans son obscurité from La Reine de Saba
Marquina España Cañí
Lope Gerona
Penella Pasodoble from El gato montés
Bizet Extracts from Carmeni. L'amour est un enfant de Bohême (Act I - First version)
ii. Prélude (Act I)
iii. Habanera (Act I)
iv. Entr’acte (Act III)
v. Séguedille (Act I)
v. Entr’acte (Act IV)
v. En vain, pour éviter (Act III)
vi. Entr’acte (Act II)
vii. Chanson bohème (Act II)

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