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Khaleej Times Online, 23. März
2009 |
Silvia Radan |
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Capital’s Classical Music Festival Strikes a Chord
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ABU DHABI - A triumph! Soprano Angela Gheorghiu,
tenor Jonas Kaufmann and the Bolshoi Orchestra conducted by maestro Ion
Marin, who opened the sixth Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Festival on Saturday
night raised the bar of classical music to heights never heard before in the
UAE capital.
From Italian passion to French sophistication and even Russian elegance,
all-time favourites and highly difficult opera arias were sung from the
heart, as beautiful as they were intended. “These are only some pieces of
mine and I hoped that I could sing an entire opera,” said Angela Gheorghiu.
Still, the pieces she gave did not fell short of a superstar performance.
They were pieces of unfulfilled or blooming love that required unthinkable
undulations and strength of the voice, pieces from some of the best loved
operas - Verdi’s Nabucco and Traviata, Puccini’s La Boheme and Madame
Butterfly, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin or
Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite.
Even in the Emirates Palace auditorium, with acoustics not designed for
classical concerts or opera, both Gheorghiu and Kaufmann sang without
microphones and filled up the hall effortlessly.
The two opera singers were perfectly accompanied by the wonderful Bolshoi
Orchestra, one of the world’s greatest, who, led by the wand of maestro
Marin, truly created magic.
The concert brought the audience repeatedly to its feet, with the standing
ovations going on and on for encores. |
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