Live from the Great Guild – State Chamber Orchestra Sinfonietta Riga first meeting with an American countertenor and conductor Bejun Metu, whose repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the modern age, from opera to chamber works. At the concert in Riga, Bejun Meta sang and conducted, delivering the Symphony in D Major, Overture and Symphony No. 29 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Mithridates, Lord of Pontus” by Johann Christian Bach, as well as arias from the operas of Georg Friedrich Handel “Orlando”, “Ptolemy, ruler of Egypt” and “Julius Caesar in Egypt”.
The live broadcast was hosted by Anete Ashmane-Wilson, delivering conversations with Sinfonietta Riga musicians Māra Botmani and Agnes Kanniņa, cultural researcher Denis Hanova and Beđuna Metta.
Bejun Meta’s voice has performed in opera houses in London, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Brussels, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid, Zurich, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles and in festivals in Salzburg, Vienna, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence. He also holds regular solo concerts, performing in Amsterdam concert hallWigmore Hall in London, Elbe Philharmonic in Hamburg, Hercules Hall in Munich, Vienna concert hall And Music SocietyCarnegie Hall in New York, Brussels Palace of Fine ArtsBerlin concert hall etc. In 2020 Meta became the first countertenor to give a solo concert in Milan The Staircase stage. In recent years, Bejun Meta has also successfully started his career as a conductor, collaborating with Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, “Dresden Philharmonic”, Bochum SO, Potsdam Chamber Academy and Wirtenberg Chamber Orchestra.
It’s also wide Gram range of recordings from the award-winning artist, many of his nearly 30 albums have also received other major awards, including Echo Klassik, Diapason d’Or, Le Diamant d’Opéra Magazine, Choc de Classica, BBC Music Magazine album title of the year, Gramophone Award uc
The American artist residing in Berlin and New York has also focused on pedagogy, giving master classes at the Salzburg Festival, the Young Talent Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera, the Amsterdam Conservatory, etc.
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