Savonlinna Oper Festival 2010
2nd July - 31 July 2010 Savonlinna, Finland
Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir
The members of the Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir are chosen for a year at a time. The size of the choir varies annually according to the operas to be performed; in 2010 the biggest chorus, of 86 singers, is for Tosca and Carmen. The choir nowadays consists mainly of students training as singers at music college, and for many of them the Savonlinna. Opera Festival Choir has been a good springboard in their career. The chorus master is Professor Matti Hyökki.
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
The Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra draws on musicians from over ten Finnish orchestras and free-lancers, though it has past the twenty years or so had a nucleus chosen from the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Finnish National Opera Orchestra and Tapiola Sinfonietta.
Any vacancies are filled with artists who have proved themselves to be of the highest artistic calibre and who are willing to adapt to the changing and often difficult conditions in Olavinlinna Castle
11st July Sunday
Elina Garanča, mezzo-soprano
Karel Mark Chichon, conductor
Oulu Symphony Orchestra
Olavinlinna Castle at 19.00
Programme
Arturo Márquez (1950)
Danzón No. 2 (1994)
Fernando Obradors (1897-1945) (arr. J. C. Cuello)
El vito from Canciones clásicas Españolas
Pablo Luna (1879-1942)
Canción Española from the zarzuela El niño judio
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Overture to The Sicilian Vespers
Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)
Voce di donna o d'angelo from La gioconda
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Fia dunque vero...O mio Fernando! from La favorita (1840)
Interval
Federico Chueca (1846-1908)
Overture to the zarzuela El bateo
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (1823-1894)
Canción de Paloma from the zarzuela El Barberillo de Lavapies
Ruperto Chapí (1851-1909)
Romanza de Socorro from the zarzuela El barquillero
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Movements from Capriccio Espagnol
Alborada
Scena e canto gitano
Fandango asturiano
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Scenes from Carmen (1875)
Overture (Act I)
L'amour est un enfant de bohème (Act I, original version)
Entr'acte (Act II)
Chanson bohème (Act II)