Max Jota has opened the season in Split singing Turandot’s Nessun dorma, I Pagliacci’s Vesti la giubba and Tosca’s E lucevan le stelle, in a gala alongside with other wonderful colleagues. From this gala concert we bring Max’s shining performance of Tosca’s E lucevan le stelle, where he displays his warm and solar sound together…
Baritone Matteo Jin had a great success at the prestigious Maria Caniglia 2020 singing competition, whose 35 edition took place between September 30th and October 3rd. Congratulations Matteo for a well merited Special Award! You can heard him in Hai già vinta la causa from Le nozze di Figaro, an unusual repertoire for him nevertheless very well served, with his…
The mythical soprano Edita Gruberova will one more time perform her great role of Elisabetta in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, as a career farewell to her home land Slovakia at the end of october 2020. Alongside to her performance, a second cast leaded by our Eva Bodorova, also as Elisabetta, will be presented! Thanks to Madame…
Daniel Miroslaw has had a beautiful prise de role as Don Magnifico in Rossini’s La Cenerentola in the wonderful Re-generation Festival with a nice ensemble of young and talented colleagues in the last days of August 2020. It is a joy and an reassuring energy to see and listen to him and to them all…
Listen to wonderful Sevinç Demirag in ‘Meine Lippen sie kussen so heiss’ from Lehar’s Giuditta, given in Mersi last September 11th. Enchanting music performed by a charming soprano, brava, Sevinç! On September 19 Sevinç is also singing in the 7 Sopranos Gala in the frame of the Istanbul Festival. Sevinç Demirag, soprano http://festartist.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VIDEO-2020-09-14-17-26-45.mp4
Prague Chamber Orchestra has announced its interesting 2020/2021 season where our dear Walter Attanasi is going to conduct Operatic Star Nino Machaidze and his husband, the talented bass Guido Loconsolo, in an Opera Gala that will be one of the hits in the next Season at the Rudolfinum. The program will assembly arias and duos…
After the doubts due to the health situation, we are happy to announce that the production of Tristan und Isolde at the Weinvirtler Festspiele have been confirmed and our dear Hermine May will have the pleasure to come back to one of her specialities, the role of Brangäne in the Richard Wagner’s masterpiece. This wagnerian…
Festartist conductor Beatriz Fernández Aceujo has been announced in the new season 2020/2021 of the Palau de la Música of Valencia where she will conduct a concert next March 14th 2021. The engagement will be framed in the Orchestra of Valencia season, in collaboration with the Festival Ensems 2021, and will feature an interesting program…
Our great Brazilian tenor Max Jota was very sad when all the rehearsals done for the new production of I Lombardi alla Prima Crocciata by Giuseppe Verdi in HNK Split had to stop short before the opening night because of the Coronavirus crisis. As Europe are slowly coming back to an actually ‘new’ normal situation…
We are very happy Festartist soprano Eva Bodorova, our EWITA, will finally be present this summer in Bregenz in the Festtage im Festpielhaus organized by the prestigious festival to replace the full program foreseen. Eva will play the main character in the world première of Impresario Dotcom composed by Slovakian composer Ľubica Čekovská in a…
Festartist conductor Dario Macellari is having a busy summer even though the strange situation due to the health situation. Not just will he be working at the side of Maestro Fabio Luisi at the new italian production the Martina Franca Festival is preparing of Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos, but he will also conduct a…
Our dear Davide Ryu had a wonderful success playing Mario Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca at the end of August in Viterbo. You can hear him ( and some wind…) in the great aria Recondita armonia. Puccini at his best coming back after the lock down to confort our souls! http://festartist.eu/davide-ryu-tenor http://festartist.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/recondita-armonia-davide-ryu.m4a
Who are we? is it worthy to create another agency for opera and classical music artists? Will this make any sense in the internet age? Will the awful health crisis the world is suffering during this year of 2020 allow our lyric and symphonic world to come back as we have known, loved and even…