“The program will be interesting: one part will be [Sergeja] The concert performance of Rachmaninov’s opera “Aleko” and the second part will feature an orchestra, I will perform [Franča] Songs by Schubert and Gustav Mahler. I think it’s often with no sound. I will be interested in myself.
I will sing Mahler for the first time. It’s really exciting music, ”
Egils Siliņš tells about the repertoire that will soon be performed in the concert halls “Cēsis” and “Gors” in the Latvian Radio program “Kultūras rondo”.
The suggestion to include “Aleko” in the concert program came from the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO). Orienting to the concert hall “Gors”, they looked for a name that would attract the audience, explains Siliņš, adding that “Aleko” was written by Rachmaninov at an early age, and Pēteris Tchaikovsky had already given him positive words at that time.
In the nature of this one-act opera, the world-famous Latvian bass baritone sees youth and great passion. Previously, Aleko performed in 2006 in Moscow and Paris.
It is remembered that Rachmaninov’s grandson had come to the concert in Paris. At that time, maestro Vladimir Fedoseev took the conductor’s desk, this time Andris Poga.
On December 18, the jubilee will take to the stage of his own opera house to sing the role of Georges Hermann in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Traviata”: “When this opera premiered at our National Opera, I also sang.
I like to sing Italian music, otherwise I get the stamp “Wagner”. They forget that for the past fifteen and twenty years I had only sung Italian music. ”
In parallel with the December concerts, Siliņš is preparing, as he notes, one of the biggest roles in opera literature – Hans Sax. Their bass baritone will sing (in concert) in Tokyo in the spring of 2023. Voice, technology is in great shape!
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