Enjoy performances from all over the world in this four-part concert celebrating World Opera Day 2020.

Opera Europa, OPERA America and Opera Latinoamérica, in collaboration with Opera for Peace and OperaVision, present vocal performances and ambassador messages from over 30 artists, representing six continents and recorded between Tokyo and Bogotà.

Act I: Tokyo

Program

• New National Theatre Tokyo | Beethoven/Schiller 9th Symphony Choral finale
• Isabel Leonard | Bizet/Meilhac/Halévy Carmen Habañera
• Chuma Sijeqa | Verdi/Boito Otello Credo in un dio crudel
• Yaritza Véliz | Puccini/Adami/Simoni Turandot Tu che di gel sei cinta
• Sondra Radvanovsky | Cilea/Colautti Adriana Lecouvreur Io son l’umile ancella
• Ai Weiwei | World Opera Day Ambassador message
• Zeina Barhoum | Puccini/Forzano Gianni Schicchi O mio babbino caro
• Alec Carlson | Donizetti/Cammarano Lucia di Lammermoor Fra poco a me ricovero
• Siobhan Stagg | Korngold/Schott Die tote Stadt Mariettas Lied
• Elsa Dreisig/Leonardo Sánchez | Verdi/Piave La traviata Parigi o cara
• Yulia Mennibaeva/Igor Morozov | Russian folksong The bell sings under the arc

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Act II: Moscow

Program

• Nikolai Zemlyanskikh | Sviridov O, Arable land
• Hyesang Park | Gluck/de' Calzabigi Orfeo ed Euridice Che fiero momento
• Vitor Mascarenhas | Donizetti/Romani L’elisir d’amore Come Paride vezzoso
• Siobhan Stagg/René Barbera | Verdi/Piave Rigoletto Gilda/Duca duet
• Ernesto Ottone | UNESCO message
• Leonardo Sánchez | Sorozábal/Romero/Fernández-Shaw La tabernera del puerto No puede ser
• Anthony Roth Costanzo | Gluck/de' Calzabigi Orfeo ed Euridice Deh placatevi
• Vuvu Mpofu | Donizetti/Rossi Linda di Chamounix O luce in quest’anima
• Sawsan Al-Bahiti | Atini Alnay Wa Ghani
• Lyubov Petrova | Verdamov folk song What should I live and grieve
• Opera Siam | Sucharitkul DasJati Heaven of Thirty-three

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Act III: London

Program

• Golda Schultz | Bizet/Meilhac/Halévy Carmen Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante
• Etienne Dupuis | Massenet/Gallet Thaïs Air de Nathanaël
• Elsa Dreisig | Mozart/Da Ponte Così fan tutte Come scoglio
• William Guanbo Su | Verdi/Scribe/Duveyrier I Vespri siciliani O tu Palermo
• Victoria Karkacheva | Chesnokov The Eternal Council
• Bernard Foccroulle | World Opera Day Ambassador message
• Rakesh Chaurasia/Ustad Zakir Hussain | Raag Kirwani
• Vuvu Mpofu/Chuma Sijeqa | Gershwin/Heyward/Gershwin Porgy & Bess Bess, you is my woman now
• Luca Pisaroni | Beethoven/Sonnleithner/Bouilly/von Breuning/Treitschke Fidelio Ha, welch’ein Augenblick
• Celine Byrne | MacCathmhaoil My Lagan Love
• Alan Pingarrón | Puccini/Adami/Simoni Turandot Nessun dorma

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Act IV: New York City

Program

• Brian Jagde | Mascagni/Targioni-Tozzetti/Menasci Cavalleria rusticana Mamma quel vino è generoso
• Nicole Car | Puccini/Illica/Giacosa Madama Butterfly Un bel di, vedremo
• Andreas Bauer Kanabas | Gounod/Barbier/Carré Faust Le veau d’or
• Paola Andrea Leguizamon | Barbieri/Mariano de Larra El barberillo de Lavapiés Canción de Paloma
• Peter Sellars | World Opera Day Ambassador message
• Raehann Bryce-Davies | Donizetti/Cammarano Roberto Devereux All’affitto
• René Barbera | Donizetti/Vernoy de Saint-Georges/Bayard La fille du régiment Ah mes amis
• Denyce Graves | Heggie/Scheer Three Decembers Daybreak
• Schultz/Park/Dupuis | Mozart/Da Ponte Le nozze di Figaro Susanna, or via, sortite
• Chineke! | Beethoven 7th Symphony Finale

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