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PROGRAM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<\/strong> (1756\u20131791)<\/span><\/p>\n

Don Giovanni’s Serenade Deh vieni alla finestra \/ Oh, Come to the Window \u2013 from the opera Don Giovanni<\/span>
\nSusanna and the Countess Duettino Canzonetta sull\u2019aria \/ Canzonetta on the Gentle Breeze \u2013 from the opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)<\/span>
\nZerlina and Don Giovanni Duettino L\u00e0 ci darem la mano \/ There I Shall Give You My Hand<\/span>
\nDon Giovanni Aria Fin ch’han dal vino \/ While the Wine Still Flows<\/span>
\nfrom the opera Don Giovanni<\/span><\/p>\n

Giuseppe Verdi<\/strong> (1813\u20131901)<\/span><\/p>\n

Renato and Amelia Scene A tal colpa \u00e8 nulla il pianto \/ No Tears Can Wash Away Such Guilt<\/span>
\nAmelia Aria Morr\u00f2, ma prima in grazia \/ I Shall Die, but First One Favour<\/span>
\nRenato Aria Eri tu… \/ It Was You…<\/span>
\nfrom the opera Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball)<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Gounod<\/strong> (1818\u20131893)<\/span><\/p>\n

Marguerite’s Aria Il \u00e9tait un roi de Thul\u00e9 \/ There Once Was a King of Thule<\/span>
\nMarguerite’s Jewel Song \u00d4 Dieu! Que de bijoux! \/ Oh God! What Beautiful Jewels!<\/span>
\nfrom the opera Faust<\/span><\/p>\n

Giuseppe Verdi<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Leonora Aria Tacea la notte placida \/ The Night Was Calm<\/span>
\nCount di Luna and Leonora Duet Udiste?… Qual voce!… Come! Tu, donna? \/ Did You Hear?… What Voice!… What! You, Woman?<\/span>
\nfrom the opera Il trovatore (The Troubadour)<\/span><\/p>\n

Giacomo Puccini<\/strong> (1858\u20131924)<\/span><\/p>\n

Lauretta Aria O mio babbino caro \/ Oh, My Dear Father \u2013 from the opera Gianni Schicchi<\/span>
\nTosca Aria Vissi d\u2019arte \/ I Lived for Art \u2013 from the opera Tosca<\/span><\/p>\n

Victor Herbert<\/strong> (1859\u20131924)<\/span><\/p>\n

Primadonna Song Art is calling \/ Art Calls Me \u2013 from the operetta The Enchantress<\/span><\/p>\n

Franz Leh\u00e1r<\/strong> (1870\u20131948)<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanna and Danilo Duet Lippen schweigen \/ Tunned, kuis meid paitab vaikus\u2026 \u2013 from the operetta Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow)<\/span><\/p>\n

Eduardo di Capua<\/strong> (1865\u20131917)<\/span><\/p>\n

O sole mio \/ My Sunshine<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finnish-born soprano MARION MELNIK began her vocal studies in the youth department of the Sibelius Academy and later in the Vocal Department. In 2008, she graduated from the Sibelius Academy with a Master\u2019s degree in Opera Singing under the guidance of Prof. M. Hannula. Melnik\u2019s repertoire covers a wide range from church music and lied to musicals, opera, classical crossover and pop music. She has performed as a soloist with several orchestras, including the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO), Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (ERSO), Kuopio City Orchestra and Mikkeli City Orchestra. Her opera roles include Oscar in Verdi\u2019s Un ballo in maschera, Maria in the musical West Side Story, Monica in Menotti\u2019s opera The Medium, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, Musetta in Puccini\u2019s La boh\u00e8me, Despina in Mozart\u2019s Cos\u00ec fan tutte, Papagena in The Magic Flute and the Priestess in Verdi\u2019s Aida. Melnik has performed at the Finnish National Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival and Birgitta Festival. In 2008, she made her debut at the Estonia Theatre as Oscar in Verdi\u2019s Un ballo in maschera, working as a guest soloist from 2008\u20132011. In recent years, Melnik has actively performed in concerts and participated in independent opera productions. Since 2018, she has lived and worked in Estonia, where she is active as a singer and vocal teacher. Melnik teaches classical singing and since 2023 has been directing the classical singing studio Canto. Marion Melnik will make her debut in the role of Anaide at Vanemuine Theatre in 2027.<\/span><\/p>\n

ILLE SAAR (soprano) graduated with a Master\u2019s degree in Classical Singing from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2019, lecturer N. Kurem). In 2015\u20132016, she furthered her studies through the Erasmus student exchange programme at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan, specialising in singing and performing leading roles in Puccini\u2019s operas Tosca and Manon Lescaut. She continued her studies there from 2016\u20132018 as a scholarship holder of the Italian Republic, graduating in 2019 from Prof. D. Uccello\u2019s class, performing among others Tosti\u2019s Four Amaranta Songs, Rachmaninoff\u2019s Spring Waters and Sibelius\u2019 Luonnotar. In 2017, she performed at the Friends of La Scala Association in Milan at a concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia. She has studied with the following outstanding musicians: F. Patan\u00e8, R. Bruson, D. Uccello, M. Formichella, G. Banditelli, G. Ravazzi, C. Rubin, H. Gjerris, N. Shetler, K. von Binzer, K. B. M\u00f8ller, M. Shaguch. Saar has made her leading role debuts in Mascagni\u2019s Cavalleria rusticana (2017, 2018; Parma), Verdi\u2019s La forza del destino (2018; Venice), and in April 2019 she debuted on the stage of RO Estonia as the Countess in Mozart\u2019s opera Le nozze di Figaro. Her achievements include the RO Estonia Young Singer Award \u201cNaan P\u00f5ld\u201d (2014), the Hans Teetlaus Foundation (ERKF) Award in 2015 and being selected among the semi-finalists of the \u201cPelizzoni\u201d International Opera Competition (2017). In 2019, Ille Saar received the PLMF Award \u201cYoung Singer 2019\u201d, dedicated to Marje and Kuldar Sink.<\/span><\/p>\n

ATLAN KARP obtained his Master\u2019s degree in Opera Singing at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. From 2007\u20132012 he worked as a permanent opera soloist at Vanemuine Theatre and has been a freelance artist since 2012. Karp\u2019s opera repertoire is extensive: Verdi\u2019s Iago (Otello), Rigoletto (Rigoletto), di Luna (Il trovatore) and Amonasro (Aida); Wagner\u2019s Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), Alberich (Das Rheingold), Friedrich von Telramund (Lohengrin) and Klingsor (Parsifal); Puccini\u2019s Scarpia (Tosca), Jack Rance (La fanciulla del West), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Schaunard (La boh\u00e8me) and Il Mandarino (Turandot); Mozart\u2019s Count Almaviva and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Giovanni and Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (Cos\u00ec fan tutte) and Sprecher (The Magic Flute); Offenbach\u2019s Lindorf, Copp\u00e9lius, Dapertutto and Miracle (The Tales of Hoffmann) and Jupiter (Orpheus in the Underworld). Karp\u2019s extensive concert repertoire also includes numerous vocal-symphonic large-scale works. Chamber music holds an important place in Karp\u2019s artistic work. His wide-ranging repertoire includes vocal music and song cycles by both contemporary and classical Russian, French, German, Finnish and Estonian composers. Karp has performed on opera and concert stages in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Italy, Germany, Israel, Bulgaria and Poland and has collaborated with many conductors. In 2019, Atlan Karp won the Estonian Theatre Union Music Award for his powerful portrayals of Jack Rance in Puccini\u2019s opera La fanciulla del West (RO Estonia) and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari\u2019s short opera Il segreto di Susanna (Opera Veto).<\/span><\/p>\n

Pianist and singer KATRIN LEHISMETS graduated in piano from Haapsalu Children\u2019s Music School and Georg Ots Tallinn Music School. Her piano studies continued at the Tallinn Conservatory from 1989\u20131991. In 1995, she graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in vocal performance. In 1999, Lehismets obtained her Master\u2019s degree in the same field with honours (cum laude) from the Mozarteum University Salzburg. She furthered her studies in 1992 at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and since 2014 with Mich\u00e8le Crider. Already during her studies, Lehismets worked as an accompanist. As a singer, she debuted in 1998 at Prague\u2019s Stavovsk\u00e9 Divadlo as Zerlina in Mozart\u2019s opera Don Giovanni. Lehismets has been a soloist at the Prague State Opera, concertmaster at the Salzburg Landestheater, as well as music director and soloist, soloist, concertmaster and orchestra pianist at Landestheater Niederbayern, and singer, actress, pianist and music director at Salzburg Theater Offensive. As an actress, she has also worked at Theatre Varius. As a r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur, Lehismets has worked at the Salzburg Festival, the Mozarteum International Summer Academy, the Eva Lind Academy, Grace Bumbry\u2019s private studio and has accompanied masterclasses of several outstanding opera singers (J. Kaufmann, S. Jo, etc.). Since 2012, Lehismets has worked at the Mozarteum University Salzburg as a concertmaster and vocal coach. Her concert activities have taken her to almost every European country, as well as to America, Canada, Cyprus, the Philippines and Egypt. She has performed at numerous international festivals, including Saaremaa Opera Days, Solothurn Classics, Prague Spring, Festival Internazionale di Musica Antica e Contemporanea Torino, Trieste Prima, Mezin\u00e1rodn\u00ed hudebn\u00ed festival Brno, International Music Festival Santany\u00ed and several times at Aspekte Salzburg.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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