(Victor
Yampolsky)
Destiny, love, chance and fate are some of
the themes explored during Thursday evening’s programme (Thursday, February 28)
of glorious music by the KZN Philharmonic under the baton of Russian born
conductor Victor Yampolsky in the third concert in the 2019 Summer Symphony
Season.
After an absence of some years, Russian-born
Yampolsky returns to the KZNPO podium on to delight his audience with a
stirring programme made up of Robert Schumann’s much-loved Fourth Symphony,
followed by a selection of operatic show-stoppers in the second half. This opens
with Richard Wagner’s resplendent Overture to his three-act Romantic
masterwork, Tannhäuser.
Cape-Town-trained soprano Cecilia
Rangwanasha, winner of the 2018 UNISA International Singing Competition, steps
into the spotlight as the evening’s soloist to launch her contribution to the
evening’s programme with another item from this famous opera, the ecstatic Dich
teure halle, popularly known as Elisabeth’s
Greeting.
(Cecilia
Rangwanasha)
Leavening the ‘big-gun’ content of the programme with some
Italian melodrama, the heart-rending Intermezzo from Mascagni’s hugely popular
one-act Opera, Cavalleria Rusticana,
paves the way for another operatic tear-jerker – Ebben! ne andro’ lontana from Alfredo Catalani's brooding, verismo
opera, La Wally. What better way to
round off the evening than with two items from one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most
thrilling masterpieces, the Overture and the soprano solo, Pace, pace mio Dio from La
Forza del Destino, an experience sure to send Durban’s audience home happy.
“We are proud to launch our 2019 World
Symphony Series this Summer Season with a spectacular line-up of international
talent on our roster, who will join us in taking the experience of concert
going for our audience to a new level,” says KZNPO Chief Executive and Artistic
Director Bongani Tembe.
The third concert takes place in the Durban
City Hall at 19h30 on Thursday (February 28, 2019).
Season tickets for the KZN Philharmonic’s
World Symphony Series 2019 Summer Season are available through Computicket.
Call 0861 915 8000 or book online at www.computicket.com. For more information visit http://kznphil.org.za/,
email bookings@kznphil.org.za or call 031-369 9438 (office hours).
Daniel Boico, KZNPO’S dynamic
Israeli-American Associate Guest Conductor, is at the helm for the last
programme of the season on March 7, opening with Grieg’s ever popular Peer Gynt
Suite No 1, followed by a performance of the same composer’s celebrated Piano
Concerto in a minor, with Russian virtuoso Olga Kern in the spotlight. Dvořák’s
rarely heard Symphony No 1 in C minor, a youthful work bursting with youthful
vigour evocative of Beethoven and Mendelssohn promises to end the season on a
high.
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connect directly to the KZNPO’s website, click on the advert at the top of this
page.
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