New Year’s Eve Gala
Rossini, Verdi, Moniuszko, Mozart, Bellini, Bernstein and others
Conductor: Andriy Yurkevych
Directed by: Jarosław Kilian
Chorus master: Bogdan Gola
Lighting: Stanisław Zięba
Video projections: Ewa Krasucka
Soloists:
Nadine Sierra – soprano
Małgorzata Walewska – mezzo-soprano
Jacek Laszczkowski – tenor
Artur Ruciński – baritone
Rafał Siwek – bass
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Participants of Opera Academy
Hosted by Julia Rosnowska and Wojciech Zimiński
Programme
Part 1
Gioacchino Rossini
overture from the opera Guillaume Tell
Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Tutto e’deserto... Il balen del suo sorriso
Count di Luna's aria from Act II from the opera Il Trovatore
libretto: Salvatore Cammarano after Antonio García Gutiérrez
Artur Ruciński
Stanisław Moniuszko
Szumią jodły
Jontek's aria from Act IV from the opera Halka
Libretto: Włodzimierz Wolski
Jacek Laszczkowski
Franz Lehár
Vilja, o vilja
Hanna's song from Act II from the operetta The Merry Widow
Libretto: Victor Léon, Leo Stein after Henri Meilhac
Nadine Sierra
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Gypsy choir from Act II from the opera Il Trovatore
Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano after Antonio García Gutiérrez
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Madamina, il catalogo è questo
Leporello's aria from Act I from the opera Don Giovanni
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte after Giovanni Bertati
Rafał Siwek
Franz Lehár
Hör ich Zymbalklänge
Ilona's csárdás from Act III from the operetta Gypsy Love
Libretto: Alfred Willner, Robert Bodanzky
Małgorzata Walewska
Vincenzo Bellini
Riccardo! Riccardo! Il duol che si m'accora – Suoni la tromba, e intrepido
Riccardo and Giorgio's duet from Act II from the opera I Puritani
Libretto: Carlo Pepoli
Artur Ruciński and Rafał Siwek
Gioacchino Rossini
Tout change et grandit
Finale from Act IV from the opera Guillaume Tell
Participants of Opera Academy:
Lucyna Jarząbek – soprano
Joanna Motulewicz – mezzo-soprano
Piotr Maciejowski – tenor
Andrzej Filończyk – baritone
Paweł Kołodziej – bass
Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Part 2
Johann Strauss, the Son
Overture from the operetta The Gypsy Baron
Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Va, pensiero
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Act III from the opera Nabucco
Libretto: Temistocle Solera after Aniceta-Burgeois and Francis Corune
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Gioacchino Rossini
La calunnia è un venticello
Basilio's aria from Act I from the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Libretto: Cesare Sterbini after Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
Rafał Siwek
Gioacchino Rossini
Largo al factotum
Figaro's aria from Act I from the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Libretto: Cesare Sterbini after Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
Artur Ruciński
Francesco Cilea
È la solita storia del pastore... Anch’io vorrei
Federico's lament from Act II from the opera L'Arlesiana
Libretto: Leopoldo Marenco
Jacek Laszczkowski
Jacques Offenbach
Ah, que j'aime les militaires
Duchess's aria from Act I from the opera La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein
Libretto: Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy
Małgorzata Walewska
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Leonard Bernstein
Glitter and be Gay
Cunegonde's aria from Act I from the opera Candide
Libretto: Lillian Hellman, Richard Wilbur (and Hugh Wheeler, John Treville LaTouche, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim) after Voltaire
Nadine Sierra
Stanisław Moniuszko
Hej, zagrajcie siarczyście
Mazurka from Act IV from the opera The Haunted Manor
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Libiamo, libiamo ne' lieti calici
Brindisi from Act I from the opera La Traviata
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave after Alexandre Dumas, fils
Nadine Sierra
Małgorzata Walewska
Jacek Laszczkowski
Artur Ruciński
Rafał Siwek
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Sponsors
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Partnerzy Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej
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