End-of-year concert with Kirill Petrenko and Jonas Kaufmann
To ring out the old year, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko present a thrilling Russian-Italian programme with tenor Jonas Kaufmann as special guest. A resonant lower range, radiant high notes, intelligent interpretation – all of that makes him one of the world’s leading singers. The other works on the programme include famous Italian opera overtures, Peter Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous Capriccio Italien, excerpts from Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, and two movements from the orchestral suite from Nino Rota's cult film La strada, whose music alternates between burlesque and melancholy.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Jonas Kaufmann tenor
Giuseppe Verdi
La forza del destino: Overture
Giuseppe Verdi
La forza del destino: ‟La vita è inferno all'infelice ... Oh, tu che in seno agli angeli”, Aria of Alvaro
Jonas Kaufmann tenor
Riccardo Zandonai
Giulietta e Romeo: ‟Giulietta! Son io!”, Aria of Romeo
Jonas Kaufmann tenor
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 1, op. 64a: Death of Tybalt
Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chénier: ‟Un di all' azzurro”, Aria of Andrea
Jonas Kaufmann tenor
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana: ‟Mamma, quel vino è generoso”, Aria of Turrido
Jonas Kaufmann tenor
Nino Rota
La strada, Orchestral Suite: 1. Nozze in campagna – ‟È arrivato Zampanò”
Nino Rota
La strada, Orchestral Suite: 2. I tre suonatori e il Matto sul filo
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio italien, op. 45
