Program Mezzo

Go behind the scenes at the Steinway & Sons factory and discover Spirio, the incredible technology that allows a piano to replay a performance exactly as it was played live. Mr. Guido Zimmermann, the president of the world-famous pianomakers, talks us through the revolutionary concept, accompanied by images of the precise, fascinating craftmanship and engineering that goes into each one of the Spirio pianos. Hugo Cohen Sprung's documentary also allows us insight into French pianist and Steinway artist Bertrand Chamayou's experience with the technology and features a preview of his unique two-piano concert in which he performs with his "shadow"!

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (Conductor) Gabriela Montero (piano) Raminta Šerkšnytė (born in 1975) De Profundis (Dutch premiere) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Mieczyslaw Weinberg Symphony No. 3 Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, 21 April 2023

Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre (conductor) Rachel Redmond (soprano), Victoire Bunel (mezzo-soprano), Serge Goubioud, Hugues Primard (tenors), Emmanuel Vistorky (baritone) Stabat Mater (intonation) Anonimous Mo’ è benuto il Giovedì santu Tarantella Stabat Mater (Monopoli manuscript) Francesco Durante (1684–1755) Concerto per quartetto in F major no. 1 Stabat Mater (Ostuni Manuscript) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) Stabat Mater Krakow, Church of St Catherine of Alexandria (Misteria Paschalia Festival), 4 April 2023

Sleeping beauty Ballet in a prologue and two acts by Christian Spuck Music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky Ballett Zürich, Junior Ballett Philharmonia Zürich, Robertas Šervenikas (conductor) Directed by Michael Beyer Zurich, Opernhaus, 2022

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare (Conductor) Anton Bruckner (1824 – 1897) Symphony no. 7 in E major Montréal, Salle Symphonique, 10 May 2022 TV director, Claudine Gamache

Rivalry in Music – Callas vs. Tebaldi Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi were the two most famous sopranos of the second half of the last century. Turned into hostile enemies by their admirers, the two became untouchable goddesses of opera. For their fans, Callas was known as "the tigress", Tebaldi as "the voice of an angel": the two singers could hardly have been more different, whether in their professional or private lives. To this day, Callas remains perhaps the greatest soprano of all time. Her rival, Tebaldi, is best known to opera lovers. Why is the posthumous fame of the two prima donnas so different? Directed by Andreas Morell 2020