"Perpetual Music" Concert — With Sonya Yoncheva

Heralded as one of the most gifted and exciting performers of her generation, Bulgarian diva and Rolex Testimonee Sonya Yoncheva leads an exceptional group of rising opera stars in this unmissable Rolex Concert—part of the “Perpetual Music” series of world-class events supporting struggling musicians during the pandemic. From the stage of the Staatsoper Berlin, the young artists will bring their impeccable talent and taste to a selection of all-time operatic favorites!

Sonya Yoncheva appears courtesy of Sony Classical.   Avi Avital appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.  Fatma Said appears courtesy of Warner Classics.

Program:

Franz Schubert, Four impromptus, Op. posth. 142, D. 935

No. 3 in B flat major, “Rosamunde”

• Charles-François Gounod, Faust
  • III: “Un bouquet!… O Dieu que de bijoux!” (Marguerite)
• Giuseppe Verdi, Il corsaro
  • “Morir tremenda cosa, urna fatale”
• David Popper, Hungarian Rhapsody
• Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96
  • III: “Verachtet mir die Meister nicht”
• Francis Poulenc, The Breasts of Tiresias
  • “Non, monsieur mon mari”
• André Messager, Solo de Concours
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, K. 527
  • I: “Là ci darem la mano”
• Camille Saint-Saëns, Havanaise, Op. 83
• Traditional / Avi Avital, Bučimiš – Bulgarian Folk Dance
• Alexander Scriabin, Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1
• Sergei Rachmaninov, Prelude No. 12 in G-sharp minor, Op. 32
• Giuseppe Verdi, Il corsaro
  • I, 1: “Tutto parea sorridere”
• George Frideric Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7
  • Aria, “Lascia ch’io pianga”

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