Programme:
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Overture and aria by Giulio "Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo" from the opera "Così fan tutte" (Cosìfan tutte), K. 588; Fandango scene and aria of Count "Hai già vinta la causa!" from the opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492
CHARLES GOUNOD - Ballet music "Les Troyens" and "Danse de Phryné" from the opera Faust
JULES MASSENET - Aria of Herod "Ce breuvage pourrait ... Vision fugitive" from the opera "Herodiade"
GIUSEPPE VERDI - Ballet music from the opera "Macbeth" (v. 1 and 3); Rodrigo's death scene from the opera "Don Carlos" (v. 2 and 3)
FRANZ LEHÁR - Concert Waltz "Gold und Silber", Op. 79; Danilo's aria "O Vaterland du machst bei Tag" from the operetta Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN - Piece for orchestra Times Square and Gabey's song Lonely Town from the musical On the Town (On the Town)
COLE PORTER - Petrucci's song Where is the Life that Late I Led (Where is the Life that Late I Led?) from the musical Kiss Me, Kiss Me Kate; "In the Still of the Night" and "Begin the Beguine"
In the last concert of the 28th Vilnius Festival, Thomas Hampson, who has won the sympathy of the Lithuanian audience, returns to the main stage of the National Philharmonic Hall, having enchanted the Lithuanian audience at the 2022 Festival, when he performed Gustav Mahler's music with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. Th. Hampson is known by the Metropolitan Opera Guild as the "Metropolitan Master" (Met Mastersinger). His career as a soloist includes nearly 100 operatic roles in opera houses around the world, and his discography includes nearly 200 albums, which have been nominated for or won prestigious awards such as the Grammy, the Edison or the Grand Prix du Disque. In 2009, the singer was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award by the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C.; he was a guest and resident artist of the New York Philharmonic, the first in the history of this renowned organisation. In 2010, he received the Living Legend Award from the Library of Congress for his work as a special advisor in the study and performance of music by American composers, and he was awarded the renowned Concertgebouw Prize.
This time in Lithuania, the American baritone, who has met such legends of the music world as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Leonard Bernstein, Daniel Barenboim, and many others along his life's journey, will be staging a spectacular fiesta of music, as evidenced by the extraordinarily colourful programme of the concert. It is a dazzling parade of orchestral and vocal sounds, from the lively melodies of Mozart's operas "All Such as These" and "The Marriage of Figaro", the ballet numbers from Gounod's "Faust", the tragic, solemn and reflective strains of Verdi's "Don Carlo", to the mellifluous melodies of Lehár, and the twentieth-century melodies of the "The Marriage of Figaro". The music of Leverhart's mellifluous melodies, the light-hearted songs of Porter and Bernstein's New York musical. And who better to convey the sonorous portrait of this city that never sleeps than one of the most prominent American baritones, Th. Hampson?
