Through the Night - 15/03/2008

With Jonathan Swain. A gala concert of operatic excerpts to open the 2007 George Enescu Festival and Competition: 1.00am Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Overture (The Marriage of Figaro) 1.06am Mozart: E Susanna non vien!...Dove sono (The Marriage of Figaro) Countess ...... Cellia Costea (soprano) 1.13am Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Studia il passo, o mio figlio! Come dal ciel precipita (Macbeth) Banquo ...... Balint Szabo (bass-baritone) 1.18am Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924): Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore (Tosca) Floria Tosca ...... Anda-Louise Bogza (soprano) 1.21am Puccini: Nessun dorma (Turandot) Calaf ...... Marian Talaba (tenor) 1.25am Puccini: Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Manon Lescaut) Manon Lescaut ...... Adina Nitescu (soprano) 1.30am Giordano, Umberto (1867-1948): Nemico della patria (Andrea Chenier) Carlo Gerard ...... Alexandru Agache (baritone) 1.36am Massenet, Jules (1842-1912): Werther! Qui m'aurait dit (Werther) Charlotte ...... Carmen Oprisanu (mezzo-soprano) 1.44am Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Largo al factotum (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) Figaro ...... George Petean (baritone) 1.49am Puccini: Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia (Madama Butterfly) Cio-Cio-San ...... Roxana Briban (soprano) Pinkerton ...... Marian Talaba (tenor) 2.01am Enescu, George (1881-1955): Ou suis-je? (Oedipe) Oedipe ...... Stefan Ignat (baritone) 2.08am Verdi: E'strano! (La Traviata) Violetta ...... Nicoleta Ardlean (soprano) 2.18am Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): In fernem Land (Lohengrin) Lohengrin ...... Marius Vlad Budoiu (tenor).