Curtain Call
Sopran Erica Petrocelli
Mezzosopran Siena Licht Miller
Tenor Savelii Andreev
Tenor Luca Bernard
Tenor Luis Magallanes
Bariton Thomas Hampson
Bariton Yannick Debus
Bassbariton Andrew Moore
Klavier Joanna Laszczkowska
Klavier William Green
Klavier Adam Rogala
Hammerklavier Enrico Maria Cacciari
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.
The American baritone Thomas Hampson can look back on a rare world career; he has sung the great operatic roles of his profession in groundbreaking interpretations time and again at Zurich Opera House. The initial spark for his musical life, however, came in his youth with the songs of Franz Schubert, and lied singing has never left him since. Today he is considered one of the most important Lied interpreters of his generation; he has not only led the German-language Lied to interpretative heights, but has also earned the highest merits in the field of American music. His artistic achievements have been repeatedly recognized by the most important awards in the music world, and numerous CD and DVD recordings attest to his extremely diverse oeuvre.
But Thomas Hampson is not only a world-renowned performer, he is also a music researcher and passionate teacher who knowledgeably passes on his many years of experience to talented young singers in numerous master classes. Thus, he not only pursues an active teaching career in the USA (including at the Manhattan School of Music), but is also the founder and artistic director of the Lied Academy of the Heidelberg Spring Festival.
In his master class, he will combine opera and Lied and can be experienced himself in one of his parade roles: As Don Alfonso from Mozart's Così fan tutte, as the older, life-experienced friend of Ferrando and Guglielmo, in other words, who instigates the two young men to make the famous bet that will help them find out whether their wives are really faithful to them.
«Curtain Call» is presented by 
The workshops are made possible through the support of the Friends of Zurich Opera.