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Donizetti - Anna Bolena

05/05/2011

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Penny Gore presents a performance by an all-star cast of Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena.

Penny Gore presents a performance by an all-star cast of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, an opera about the tragic downfall of Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn.

2:00pm
Star soprano Anna Netrebko leads an all-star cast in Donizetti's opera about the tragic downfall of Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn. This was the opera that made Donizetti's name on the international stage: this new production, in which Netrebko sings the role of Anne for the first time, is also the first time the opera has been staged at the Vienna State Opera. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo sings the King, and Elina Garanca sings wife-no.3-to-be, Jane Seymour.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Donizetti: Anna Bolena - Act 1
Anna Netrebko (soprano).... Anne Boleyn
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass).... Henry VIII 
Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano).... Jane Seymour
Dan Paul Dumitrescu (bass).... George Boleyn, Anne's brother 
Francesco Meli (tenor).... Lord Percy 
Elisabeth Kulman (contralto).... Mark Smeaton, Anne's household musician 
Peter Jelosits (tenor).... Hervey, court official 
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra 
Evelino Pidò (conductor)

[Act 2 tomorrow at 2pm]

3:30pm A Week at the Concertgebouw
Boccherini: Symphony in D minor, Op. 12 no. 4 (La casa del diavolo)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson (director)

3:50pm
Busoni: Berceuse elegiaque
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ed Spanjaard (conductor)

4:00pm
Vivaldi: 'Vaga perla, benché sia' from Cantata 'La senna festeggiante', RV 693 
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Kristina Hammarstrom (mezzo-soprano)
Peter Gijsbertsen (tenor)
Luca Tittoto (bass)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (conductor)

4:10pm
Berio: Sinfonia (3rd movement) 
Synergy Vocals
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ed Spanjaard (conductor).

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