Juan Diego Flórez and Pretty Yende wow Amsterdam

By Nicolas Nguyen, 21 May 2015

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Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 19 May 2015

Donizetti, Linda di Chamounix: Overture

Donizetti, Linda di Chamounix: Da quel di che t'incontrai

Donizetti, Linda di Chamounix: Oh luce di quest'anima

Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Fra poco a me ricovero

Bellini, La sonnambula: Ah! non credea mirarti

Bellini, La sonnambula: Ah! non giunge

Offenbach, La Belle Hélène: Au mont Ida, trois Déesses

Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore: Una parola, Adina

Gounod, Romeo et Juliette: Va! Je t'ai pardonné

Gounod, Roméo et Juliette: Nuit d'hyménée!

Gounod, Roméo et Juliette: L'amour! - Ah! lève-toi, soleil!

Massenet, Manon: Suis-je gentille ainsi?

Massenet, Manon: Je marche sur tous les chemins

Massenet, Manon: Obéissons quand leur voix appelle

Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Overture

Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore: Una furtiva lagrima

Bellini, I puritani: Qui la voce sua soave... Vien, diletto, è in ciel la luna

Donizetti, Lucia di Lamermoor: Qui di sposa eterna... Ah, verrano a te sull'aure

Donizetti, La Fille du régiment: Salut à la France!

Donizetti, La Fille du régiment: Ah! mes amis

Puccini, La bohème: O soave fanciulla

Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor

Pretty Yende, Soprano

Christopher Franklin, Conductor

Het Gelders Orkest

Dutch Reisopera’s winning A Little Night Music

Nicolas Nguyen, 26th March

Programming Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music is quite a daring move in a country with no real tradition in musical. This production by Nederlands Reisopera shows that fortune favours the bold.

****1

Reisopera's Così fan tutte: cast shine in an uninspired staging

Nicolas Nguyen, 12th February

In the Nederlandse Reisopera's Così fan tutte, the team of young soloists and the Orkest van het Oosten conducted by Arnaud Oosterbaum give a musically rewarding performance that compensates for an unconvincing stage direction.

***11

Bold music-making in Reisopera’s austere Butterfly

Jenny Camilleri, 19th September

Annemarie Kremer is a strong-willed, dramatically voiced Butterfly in Laurence Dale’s sensitive production.

***11

Eva-Maria Westbroek brings alpha star glamour to Dutch opera gala

Jenny Camilleri, 22nd May

Eva-Maria Westbroek as Sieglinde was the high point at an opera gala in support of young singers at the Concertgebouw.

***11

An astonishing Napoleon re-entering history

David Pinedo, 15th June

A once-in-a-lifetime experience with a perfectly arranged score to a breathtaking film.

*****

Dvořák 1-0 Football: the Gelders Orchestra scores at the Concertgebouw

Sanne Thierens, 13th June

While people gathered near big screens at the Museum Square to see the Dutch football team play, metres along the road another crowd gathered to hear the Gelders Orchestra play Dvořák's Cello Concerto and Ninth Symphony.

***11

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Nicolas Nguyen

Nicolas is a French Amsterdammer, e-commerce professional and a bit of an opera buff. His experience in the area of music is that of a dilettante. His passion for the opera and vocal music comes from his love for both music and languages which are so perfectly combined in these art forms.

Juan Diego Flórez and Pretty Yende wow the Amsterdam public