Edita Gruberová, the most renowned coloratura soprano gives a song recital for the first time at the Budapest Opera on 31 January. She is accompanied on the piano by Peter Valentovic, a regular guest conductor at European concert halls.
Those who were at the Erkel Theatre in 2014 to hear Edita Gruberová sing the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor in a concertformat performance held in memory of Ferenc Fricsay will never forget the magical experience of watching her perform the role for the first time in ten yearsm in what was also her first time singing at the Erkel.
Now it will be the turn of the Opera House to host the Bratislava-born Gruberová, whose direct links with Hungary through her mother are well known. The marvellous soprano’s first solo song recital at the Opera House will start with Slavic songs – including the entire cycle of Dvořák’s Gypsy Melodies – and then move on in the second half to works by Richard Strauss, as well as others by one of the Budapest opera’s first principal musical directors: Gustav Mahler.
Programme:
P. I. Tchaikovsky:
Why?, Op.6 No. 5
Cradle Song, Op. 16 No. 1
N. Rimsky-Korsakov:
Fresh and Fragrant... Op. 43 No. 3
Not the Wind… Op. 43 No. 2
A. Dvořák:
Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55 No. 1-7
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R. Strauss:
Rote Rosen
Die Georgine, Op. 10 No. 4
Mädchenblumen, Op. 22 No. 1-4
Malven, Op. posth.
G. Mahler:
Erinnerung
Ich atmet einen linden Duft
Hans und Grete
Scheiden und Meiden
Photo: Attila Nagy
