The festival’s star gala concert welcomes one of the most distinguished personalities of today’s opera. Bryn Terfel, an operatic legend with the charisma of a global star, appears in a program transcending genres and styles, with the Slovak soprano Slávka Zámečníková at his side. The evening features famous opera arias, musical theater melodies, and distinctive Welsh songs, promising an exceptional experience filled with emotion and vocal virtuosity.
programme
Giuseppe Verdi
Un giorno di regno (overture)
Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff
Aria “Ehi! Paggio!”
Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale
Aria of Norina “Quel guardo il cavaliere … So anch’io”
Gaetano Donizetti
L’elisi d’amore
Duet of Adina and Dulcamara “Quanto amore … Una tenera occhiatina“
Hector Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust
“Hungarian March”
Arrigo Boito
Mefistofeles
Aira of Mefistofele “Son lo spirito che nega“
Charles Gounod
Faust
Aria of Méphistophélès “Le veau d’or”
Aria of Marguerite “Chanson du Roi de Thulé”
Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold
Aria of Wotano “Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge”
Leonard Bernstein
Candide (overture)
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess
“I got plenty of nuttin“
“Bess, You Is My Woman Now“
“Summertime“
Richard Rodgers
South Pacifc
“Some Enchanted Evening“
Richard Rodgers
The Sound of Music (orchestral medley)
Jerry Bock
Fiddler on the Roof
“If I Were a Rich Man“
Performers
Sir Bryn Terfel – bass-baritone
Slávka Zámečníková – soprano
Prague Philharmonia
Eugene Kohn – conductor
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