Curtain Call

Sopran Erica Petrocelli
Sopran Lina Dambrauskaité
Mezzosopran Anna Bonitatibus
Tenor Luca Bernard
Bariton Yuriy Hadzetskyy
Bariton Vladyslav Tlushch
Bassbariton Andrew Moore
Bass Oleg Davydov
Bass Brent Michael Smith

Klavier Joanna Laszczkowska
Klavier William Green
Klavier Adam Rogala
Hammerklavier Andrea del Bianco
Bassetthorn Robert Pickup

Over Christmas and New Year's Eve, with the generous support of Zürich Versicherungen and Freunde der Oper Zürich, we present the «Curtain Call» series. Prominent singers meet at eye level with the up-and-coming talents of the International Opera Studio and create a concert evening together. This concert series is also the prelude to our anniversary year – 60 years of Freunde der Oper Zürich and 60 years of the International Opera Studio.

The Videos are available until Sunday, January 17 2021, 24.00.

Anna Bonitatibus, mezzo-soprano from Italy, enjoys an outstanding reputation not only in the baroque repertoire. She is equally at home with Mozart and bel canto and has been celebrated for her deeply moving role portraits at many opera houses in Europe. Anna Bonitatibus is keen to pass on her immense knowledge to a younger generation of singers. At the center of her workshop, the singer has chosen three operas that are central to her repertoire and in which love and the quest for power are illuminated from different perspectives. 

Together with the artists of the International Opera Studio, Anna Bonitatibus will work musically and scenically on the various role portraits, bringing to life the protagonists in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Figaro's Marriage, as well as Rossini's Barber of Seville. In the respective excerpts, she will also be able to be experienced herself as Sesto, Cherubino and Rosina.

«Curtain Call» is presented by    
The workshops are made possible through the support of the Friends of Zurich Opera.