AMUZ is celebrating the new year with vocal fireworks by Mozart and Rossini. The conductor Giovanni Antonini (Il Giardino Armonico) will lead Anima Eterna in a programme that paved the way for the Italian bel canto of the early 19th century. After all, the key to the successful operas by Rossini and his contemporaries is already to be found in Mozart’s opera arias. Gramophone Magazine praised Julia Lezhneva’s interpretation of Rossini’s arias: “She has many of the essential attributes for these demanding, wide-ranging arias composed for the most brilliant singers of the day: a pure, pellucid soprano with an intriguing hint of mezzo plangency, fluent movement between registers, and scintillating (if faintly aspirated) coloratura.”
Program
W.A. Mozart: Voi avete un cor fedele, KV 217 | Per pietà, uit Così fan tutte, K 588 | F. Schubert: Allegro moderato, from Symphony no. 8, D. 759 | Overture in C major ‘im italienischen Stile’, D. 591 | G. Rossini: Sinfonia, from Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Assisa ai piè di un salice, from Otello | Tanti affetti in tal momento, from La Donna del Lago
Performers
Julia Lezhneva, soprano | Anima Eterna | Giovanni Antonini, artistic leader
