Ruzan Mantashyan, soprano
Hilko Dumno, piano
Songs by Komitas, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Strauss
Friday 22 August 20:30 h
sold out
 
Ras i curt
Què ens hi trobarem?
El debut de Ruzan Mantashyan l'any passat a la Royal Opera House de Londres va ser qualificat per la crítica de “gloriós” i “impressionant”, amb una veu que “podria fondre un cor de pedra”. La soprano armènia debutarà a la Schubertíada amb un programa que començarà amb cançons del compositor també armeni Komitas i acabarà amb els magnífics Vier letzte Lieder de Strauss; entre mig hi escoltarem els Tre sonetti de Petrarca de Liszt i una selecció de cançons de Rakhmàninov.
El compositor destacat
Komitas (el nom que va triar en ordenar-se sacerdot) és considerat el pare de la música clàssica armènia actual; compositor, pedagog i musicòleg, va ser reconegut per Fauré i Debussy, entre d'altres, com gran compositor. La seva carrera va ser interrompuda pel Genocidi Armeni, al qual va sobreviure afectat per una greu malaltia mental. Escoltarem per primera vegada la seva música a la Schubertíada, amb algunes de les cançons tradicionals que va recollir i harmonitzar.
 
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Komitas
Tsirani tsar
Chinar es
Garoun a
Le le Yaman
Qeler Tsoler
Antouni
Franz Liszt
Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270a
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prayer, op. 8/2
Spring waters, op. 14/11
Dream, op. 38/5
How nice it is here, op. 21/7
Lilacs, op. 21/5
Do not sing to me, fair maiden, op. 4/4
Richard Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder
 
Ruzan Mantashyan
Ruzan Mantashyan

Ruzan Mantashyan, an Armenian-born musician, began piano studies at seven and later studied voice at the Komitas Conservatoire. She further honed her skills at Mirella Freni's Accademia di Belcanto in Modena and the Frankfurt Conservatoire, earning a Master's Degree in 2014. She then joined the Atelier lyrique at the Opéra national de Paris until 2016. Mantashyan has won several awards, including the Special Prize at the Francisco Vinas International Singing Contest and the Toti dal Monte competition. She has performed in numerous prestigious venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Opéra de Paris Bastille, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Wiener Staatsoper or the Royal Opera House. Her roles include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) or Mimi (La Bohème), among others.

Hilko Dumno
Hilko Dumno

Hilko Dumno teaches how to sing Lieder at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He studied piano at the Detmold/Münster Music University before studying at the HfMDK in Frankfurt. Artists with whom Hilko Dumno regularly works include Christoph Prégardien, Hedwig Fassbender, Julia Kleiter and Johannes Martin Kränzle. They performed at organizations all over Europe including the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, the Dresden Music Festival, Lucerne Festival and the Amadeus Festival in Geneva and at Oper Frankfurt. His artistic achievements are documented by recordings for the North German and Hessische Rundfunks and Radio Suisse Romande and various CD recordings such as Richard Strauss' Songs of Love and Death with Hedwig Fassbender, Hugo Wolfs Italienisches Liederbuch with Christoph Prégardien and Julia Kleiter and a highly praised recording, Das ewige Rätsel, with Johannes Martin Kränzle.

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