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Young singers on stage in Oslo: the Queen Sonja Singing Competition final

Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway and Jasmin White
© Per Ole Hagen
Jasmin White
© Per Ole Hagen
Aksel Daveyan
© Per Ole Hagen
Lise Davidsen
© Per Ole Hagen
Her Majesty Queen Sonja with the finalists
© Per Ole Hagen
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“the most “complete” of the six finalists, which won her the recognition of the jury”
Reviewed at Oslo Opera House, Main Stage, Oslo on 26 August 2023
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Cruda, funesta smania
Benjamin, Written on Skin: This Says the Boy
Handel, Semele, HWV 58: Iris, Hence Away
Bellini, I puritani: Ah! Per sempre io ti perdei
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, K621: Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio
Tchaikovsky, Iolanta: Robert's aria
Wagner, Das Rheingold: Weiche Wotan, Weiche
Gounod, Faust: Avant de quitter ces lieux
Sibelius, Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The girl comes from meeting her lover), Op.37 no.5
Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame): Ya vas lyublyu (Yeletsky's aria)
Handel, Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto, HWV 25: Stille amare
Thomas, Hamlet: Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse
Aksel Daveyan, Baritone
Navasard Hakobyan, Baritone
Vladyslav Tlushch, Baritone
Rebecka Wallroth, Mezzo-soprano
Nils Wanderer, Countertenor
Jasmin White, Contralto
Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
James Gaffigan, Conductor
Lise Davidsen, Presenter
Wayne McGregor’s Jocasta’s Line offers powerful performances
****1
Petite Mort is a cut above in second Kylián celebration
***11
NNB rises to the challenges of Nureyev’s Don Quixote
****1
Norwegian National Ballet dazzles in Balanchine's Jewels
*****
Ben Stevenson's Cinderella is still delightful after nearly 55 years
****1
Mats Ek's She was black + A Sort Of ...: thrillingly captivating
*****
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