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Giuseppe Verdi Ouvertüre zu «Nabucco» Pēteris Vasks «Elegy I» und «Folk Music» aus dem Konzert für Englischhorn und Orchester Pjotr I. Tschaikowsky Sinfonie Nr. 3 D-Dur op. 29 «Polnische» Josef Strauss «Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb' und Lust!», Walzer op. 263 The final concert of the Conductors' Academy shows what the young conductors have learnt in the days leading up to it. They all conduct parts from very different works for orchestra; Martin Frutiger joins them as soloist in the two movements from Pēteris … [more]

Don Pasquale is one of Gaetano Donizetti’s final operas. Shortly before his full-blown syphilis outbreak, the composer wrote his dramma buffo about an elderly gentleman seeking happiness and hoping to marry a young woman. The illness left Donizetti – surrounded by interlopers hoping to get their hands on his estate – to die tragically in an insane asylum. In the opera, Don Pasquale is the victim of a mean joke: the beautiful young Norina pretends to be an innocent young thing, … [more]

Don Pasquale is one of Gaetano Donizetti’s final operas. Shortly before his full-blown syphilis outbreak, the composer wrote his dramma buffo about an elderly gentleman seeking happiness and hoping to marry a young woman. The illness left Donizetti – surrounded by interlopers hoping to get their hands on his estate – to die tragically in an insane asylum. In the opera, Don Pasquale is the victim of a mean joke: the beautiful young Norina pretends to be an innocent young thing, … [more]