Program Mezzo

Simon Boccanegra Opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901 Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on a play by Antonio García Gutiérrez Venice, Teatro La Fenice, 12 March 1857 (1st version), Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 24 March 1881 (2nd version) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (Conductor) Chorus of the Netherlands National Opera Jetske Mijnssen (Mise en scène) Etienne Pluss (Set Designer), Hannah Clark (Costumes), Valerio Tiberi (Lighting Design) George Petean (Simon Boccanegra) Federica Lombardi (Amelia Grimaldi) Georg Zeppenfeld (Jacopo Fiesco) Riccardo Massi (Gabriele Adorno) Germán Olvera (Paolo Albiani) Jasurbek Khaydarov (Pietro) François Soons (A Captain) Yvonne Kok (La servante d'Amelia) Amsterdam, Dutch National Opera, 10 June 2026

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