Curtain Call mit Diana Damrau und dem Internationalen Opernstudio

Concert with Diana Damrau and young artists from the International Opera Studio
With songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, R. Strauss, Wolf and Reger.

17. December 2020

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    Tickets at CHF 60 each for the concerts can be purchased from Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 11.00 am, exclusively by telephone on +41 44 268 66 66. The ticket office can be reached by telephone from Monday to Friday, from 11.00 am to 6.00 pm. 

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Cast


Sopran Diana Damrau


Tenor Andrei Skliarenko


Bariton Yuriy Hadzetskyy


Bass Brent Michael Smith

Klavier Adrian Kelly

Diana Damrau

Diana Damrau is a regular guest on the stages of the world’s leading opera and concert houses. Her extensive repertoire lies in the lyric and coloratura fach and includes, among others, the title roles in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Massenet’s Manon, as well as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. She regularly performs at major venues such as the Bavarian State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and La Scala in Milan. Specially composed for her were Iain Bell’s opera A Harlot’s Progress (Theater an der Wien, 2013) and Lorin Maazel’s 1984 (Royal Opera House, 2005). As an exclusive artist for Warner Classics/Erato, she has released numerous award-winning CD and DVD recordings. Diana Damrau is one of the most important lieder interpreters of our time. She regularly appears in renowned concert halls such as London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and the Berlin Philharmonie. She maintains close artistic partnerships with pianist Helmut Deutsch and harpist Xavier de Maistre. In 2022, she will present a program of love songs by Brahms and Schumann in the most important concert halls of Europe together with Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch. On the opera stage this season, she will still sing Anna Bolena at the Vienna State Opera and make her role debut as the Countess in Strauss’s Capriccio at the Bavarian State Opera. Diana Damrau is a Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera, recipient of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, as well as the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Andrei Skliarenko

Andrei Skliarenko wurde in Russland geboren, wo er am Tschaikowsky Music College in Jekaterinburg und am Jekaterinburg State Mussorgsky Konservatorium studierte. Nach seinem Abschluss war er Mitglied des Young Artist Program am Bolschoi-Theater. Sein Debüt auf der Bühne des Bolschoi-Theaters gab er 2017 in der OperDer steinerne Gast von Alexander Dargomyschski. Er trat in zahlreichen Kammerkonzerten in der Beethoven Halle des Bolschoi-Theaters auf. 2018 war er in Rossinis Stabat Mater am Teatro Comunale di Cagli zu hören, 2019 nahm er beim Winter International Arts Festival in Sochi teil. Im selben Jahr sang er Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) in der Suzhou Jinji Lake Concert Hall in China. Er gewann 2014 den 2. Preis der Tolyatti International Music Competition, 2016 bekam er das Diplom «Beste Gesangsleistung» der militärischen Streitkräfte der Russischen Föderation und war 2017 Preisträger des Wettbewerbs der Gesangsabsolventen Russlands. Seit 2020/21 ist er Mitglied des Internationalen Opernstudios am Opernhaus Zürich und war hier in Boris Godunow, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, in L’incoronazione di Poppea sowie zuletzt in Il trovatore zu sehen. 2022 gastierte er ausserdem am Theater Bielefeld als Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Yuriy Hadzetskyy

Yuriy Hadzetskyy, Bariton, stammt aus Lviv in der Ukraine. Er studierte am Konservatorium seiner Heimatstadt und debütierte 2015 an der Lviv National Opera in der Titelrolle von Mozarts Don Giovanni. Ab 2017 war er Mitglied der Opera Academy an der Polnischen Nationaloper Warschau. Er ist Preisträger des Queen Elisabeth Wettbewerbs: Voice 2018, des Berlin International Music Competition 2018 (Goldmedaille) sowie des 9th Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition 2019 (mit Extra-Auszeichnung: Oratorio Prize). Von 2019-2022 war Yuriy Hadzetzskyy Mitglied des Internationalen Opernstudios Zürich und war hier als Geisterkind 3 in Coralin, als Graf Dominik in Arabella, als Procolo Cornacchia in Viva la mamma und als Ratgeber / Riese /Wildschwein in Das tapfere Schneiderlein zu sehen. 2021/22 sang er Il Barone di Trombonok in Il viaggio a Reims beim Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Dandini (La Cenerentola) an der Oper in Breslau sowie ein Handwerksbursche in Wozzeck im Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia.

Brent Michael Smith

Brent Michael Smith is from the USA. He studied voice at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and the University of Northern Iowa, as well as piano at Hope College. In 2021, he won 3rd prize at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino, was a finalist at the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, and received the Zachary L. Loren Society scholarship. In 2020, he was a semifinalist at the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions; in 2018, he won prizes at the Opera Index Competition and the Opera Birmingham International Competition, as well as awards at the Giargiari Bel Canto Competition. In the 2016/17 season, he sang Zuniga (Carmen), the British Major (Silent Night by Kevin Puts), Friedrich Bhaer (Little Women), and Ashby (La fanciulla del West) at the Michigan Opera Theatre. In the same season, he made his debut at the Toledo Opera as Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro) and at the Glimmerglass Festival as Ariodante (Xerxes). At the Santa Fe Opera, he appeared as a Lackey (Ariadne auf Naxos). At Opera Philadelphia, he sang Celio (The Love for Three Oranges) and Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) in 2019. After a season at the International Opera Studio, he has been a member of the Opernhaus Zürich ensemble since 2020/21, where he has performed roles in Boris Godunow, Simon Boccanegra, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, in the ballet Monteverdi, as Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Count Lamoral (Arabella), Raimondo Bidebent (Lucia di Lammermoor), Pistola (Falstaff), Angelotti (Tosca), Gualtiero Raleigh (Roberto Devereux), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Friar Laurence (Roméo et Juliette), and Fafner (Das Rheingold).

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Adrian Kelly

Adrian Kelly wurde nach seinem Studium an der Universität Cambridge Mitglied des Young Artists Programme am ROH Covent Garden. Danach war er Solorepetitor an der Staatsoper Hamburg. Er arbeitet regelmässig für die Salzburger Festspiele, wo er u.a. Ingo Metzmacher bei Luigi Nonos Al gran sole carico d’amore und Wolfgang Rihms Dionysos assistierte. Darüber hinaus arbeitete er mit Dirigent:innen wie Antonio Pappano, Mark Elder, Peter Schneider, Nicola Luisotti, Philippe Jordan und Simone Young. Seit Sommer 2015 ist er Musikalischer Leiter des Young Singers Project der Salzburger Festspiele. Gastengagements führten ihn ans Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires und in die Vereinigten Staaten, wo er das Barock-Pasticcio The Infernal Comedy mit dem Schauspieler John Malkovich auf Tournee dirigierte. Von 2010 bis 2017 war Adrian Kelly Erster Kapellmeister am Salzburger Landestheater. Er arbeitete dort regelmässig mit dem Mozarteumorchester Salzburg und übernahm die musikalische Leitung u.a. von Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Le nozze di Figaro, Ernst Kreneks Jonny spielt aufHänsel und Gretel in der Felsenreitschule, La bohème im Haus für Mozart sowie der österreichischen Erstaufführung von Charles Wuorinens Brokeback Mountain. In der Spielzeit 2018/19 leitete er am Landestheater Manon sowie einen Zyklus der Mozart-Da Ponte-Opern und kehrte in der Saison 2019/20 als erster ständiger Gastdirigent dorthin zurück. Seit Juni 2018 ist er Künstlerischer Leiter des Buxton Festivals, wo er die Neuproduktionen von Eugen Onegin und von La donna del lago dirigierte. Seit der Spielzeit 2020/21 ist er Leiter des Internationalen Opernstudios Zürich und dirigierte hier u.a. Viva la mamma am Theater Winterthur und Jakob Lenz im ZKO-Haus.

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Abstract

During the Advent season, with the generous support of Zürich Versicherung and the Friends of Zurich Opera, we present the series Curtain Call. Prominent singers will join the young talents of the International Opera Studio on an equal footing and together create a concert evening. During a three-day workshop, Diana Damrau, Anna Bonitatibus, Thomas Hampson and Benjamin Bernheim will work with the young singers on key works from the vocal repertoire, scenes from 18th and 19th century operas, and classic Lieder repertoire. The results will be presented live on stage to a small audience. The 50 spectators in attendance will have the unique opportunity to follow the concert from an unusual perspective. This concert series is also the prelude to our anniversary year - 60 years Friends of Zurich Opera and 60 years International Opera Studio.

Mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus is at home in the baroque and bel canto repertoire. On 15 December, she will open the series with works by Rossini and Mozart, together with the young singers of the International Opera Studio. On 16 December, rising star Benjamin Bernheim and the young artists follow with arias and scenes from Verdi's Rigoletto and Massenet’s Manon and Werther. On 17 December, star soprano Diana Damrau gets in the mood for Christmas and joins the International Opera Studio to present songs by Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. Last but not least, Thomas Hampson and the young singers will present scenes from Mozart's Così fan tutte and selected songs by Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert on 18 December.

All concerts will be recorded with several cameras. In addition, a camera team will accompany all the artists during the workshops and observe the development of the musical program backstage. These impressions will be presented as short documentaries. The Curtain Call concerts and documentaries will be digitally broadcast over Christmas and New Year via our homepage.

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Good to know

Andrei Skliarenko

Tell us Andrei...

When and why did you decide to become an opera singer?
At the age of 18 I decided to become an opera singer because I love opera.

If I hadn't become an opera singer, I'd be …
… an engineer or a scientist.

Which was your most precious experience on stage so far?
When I took part in a production of «Cantata.Lab» at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia with my wife.

… the most embarrassing moment?
During my studies I once sang one of the Rachmaninov songs and totally forgot the text.

… the biggest challenge?
My decision to move to Zürich

And what would be your biggest dream?
The end of the coronavirus crisis

Do you have a lucky charm or a ritual before going on stage?
It’s a secret.

My secret weapon to prevent hoarseness:
Drinking tea.

My idol:
Luciano Pavarotti

Which opera character do you identify with the most and why?
Usually, opera characters have a very cruel destiny, they get killed or betrayed so I’d rather not identify myself with the opera characters.

This song speaks out of the fullness of my heart:
«Есть одна хорошая песня у соловушки» by Sviridov

Which is you favorite place in Zürich and why?
I like the lake and to be beside the lake as it is very calm.

Which is your favorite word in Swiss German?
«Grüetzi»

Andrei Skliarenko, tenor, comes from Russia. 
The thirty-year-old has been a member of the IOS since the 2O/21 season.

Yuriy Hadzetskyy

Tell us Yuriy...

When and why did you decide to become an opera singer?
I decided to become an opera singer when I studied in the music college in Lviv as a musicologist. I was 18 years old.

If I hadn't become an opera singer, I'd be…
… a lawyer (that was an idea in school), a musicologist (I was studying that in music college) or a sound engineer (it was my hobby for 3 years).

Which was your most precious experience on stage so far?
It was my first operatic role of Mozart’s «Don Giovanni».

… the most embarrassing moment?
When I had to open up internally and externally for the role of «Don Giovanni».

… the biggest challenge?
Actually the same thing as the most embarrassing moment, because it was a turning point for me as an actor.

And what would be your biggest dream?
That art is valued and popular. And then we will find our place in this world.

Do you have a lucky charm or a ritual before going on stage?
Actually no. Just need a bit of calmness.

My secret weapon to prevent hoarseness:
Sing technically correctly.  And work on the breath.

My idol:
I like good musicians. Preferences, of course, are personal for everyone. But still Christian Gerhaher is my most favorite.

Which opera character do you identify with the most and why?
Specifically with none, but I have a few favorites and dream roles: my first role of Don Giovanni (I love Mozart and it’s a very mysterious role), Figaro from «Il barbiere di Siviglia» (I love coloratura stuff and Figaro’s quick wits), Pelléas from «Pelléas et Melisande» (magical music and lyrics) and Orfeo from Monteverdi’s «Orfeo» (something special and deep).

This song speaks out of the fullness of my heart:
«Heimliche Aufforderung» by R.Strauss – as a secret invitation, and then a meeting with music – every time full of emotions.

Which is you favorite place in Zürich and why?
Zurich is all beautiful, I love this city. But I like to sit by the water on warm evenings.

What is your favorite word in Swiss German?
«Isch guet!»

Yuriy Hadzetskyy, baritone, comes from the Ukraine. 
The twenty-eight-year-old has been a member of the IOS since the 19/2O season.