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‘’Gala Rossini - Gounod’’

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Event Details

 

‘’Gala Rossini – Gounod’’

2 Nov 18, 21:00

Main Ceremony Hall of the Aristotles University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki City Symphony Orchestra

‘’Gala Rossini – Gounod’’ 

Thessaloniki City Symphony Orchestra dedicates this concert to the 150th anniversary of the death of the Italian composer of bel canto Gioacchino Rossini and to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the French composer, the spokesman for the French Opéra lyrique, Charles Gounod. TCSO  hosts emerging young lyric singers, as part of an effort to help bring out the new talented generation of artists by offering their musical experience.

The young singers will interpret arias from known works by G. Rossini and from the opera “Faust”, which is perhaps the most popular of the 12 lyric works composed by Charles Gounod, with the first part of the concert closing with the famous “Two Cats Duet”,thought in this caseit will be sang by “four”.  In the second half of the programm Gounod’s Symphony No. 1 in D-major will be performed under the baton of the Artistic Director of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra  ,  German conductor Jens Georg Bachmann, who has  a long and distinguished career throughout Europe and the USA.

The concert will be held on Friday, November 2nd, 2018, at 21:00, at the Main Ceremony Hall of the Aristotles University of Thessaloniki , which is free of charge from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the framework of its collaboration with the Cultural Directorate of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

Programm:

G. Rossini: Overture from the Opera  Il Signor Bruschino

Retsitatives and arias from  G. Rossini and C. Gounod Operas                  

 Stamatia Molloudi – mezzo

 Danai Kyritsi – soprano

 Sofia Mpermperidou -soprano

Giorgos Sofialidis – baritone

G. Rossini: Duetto di ‘’…Quattro’’Gatti (four cats duet)

C. Gounod: Symphony No 1 in D-major

Jens Georg Bachmann, Conductor

 

 

 

English translation: Souzan Gogousi

Time

02/11/2018 21:00 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm(GMT+00:00)