Vilniaus festivalis. SLAVA UKRAINI! Ukrainos Laisvės orkestras, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Rachel Willis-Sørensen

Performers:
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
Soloist Rachel Willis-Sørensen (soprano, USA)
Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson (Canada, USA)

Program:
Maxim Kolomietis - Suite from Opera Cherson Mother (Premiere)
Richard Wagner - Introduction and Izolda's Death Scene (Liebestod) from the opera "Tristan and Izolda"
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 5 C-Moll ("Fate"), op. 67
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra (Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra), who has been traveling around the world for three years, comes to Vilnius! His founder, conductor Keri-Llynn Wilson is well known to our audience, has already conducted a number of spectacular programs on the Philharmonic scene. The conductor's career is over twenty years, and she performs with the world's most famous orchestras such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, Japanese NHK, Zalzburg's Mozarteum, French National, Bavarian Radio Symphony and others. K.-L. Wilson cooperates with the most famous opera theaters, including New York Metropolitan, Royal, Bavaria and Vienna state, Washington, Tokyo National, Buenos Aires Theater Colón.

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra K.-L. Wilson brought together 2022. in the spring as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It consists of musicians from Ukraine, war refugees and Ukrainians living abroad. The list of tours of the team is getting longer - the world's most famous scenes, cathedrals, festivals. To commemorate the anniversary of the war, K.-L. Wilson initiated G. Verdi's Requiem at the LVIVO Opera House, and on the second anniversary of the invasion, her and the orchestra were released by L. Van Beethoven's ninth symphony to Deutsche Grammophon. Honorary patron of the orchestra is Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded K.-L. Order of the Duchess of Wilson.

The concert will be performed by the premiere of the work of the Ukrainian composer and Oboye Maximo Kolomainiai. The author is the winner of several competitions, his music has already been performed in festivals in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Belgium, USA, and the works were performed by Wiener Symphoniker, Arditti Quartet, EnseMble Modern (Frankfurt), Amaryllis quarter. 2023 According to the Metropoliten Opera and Lincoln Center, this composer was ordered to create an opera about kidnapped Ukrainian children.

The concert program includes an immature classic. 1859 The opera "Tristan and Izolda" created by Richard Wagner is a tragic song of unhappy love, the author believes that the "depths of spiritual experiences" opens up. It has almost no stage action, and the music reveals the various shades of love of two main characters - waiting, sadness and pain, desire and joy of death. Wagner Isold will be sung by Soprano from USA Rachel Willis-Sørensen, a Metropolitan, a Covent Garden, Naples San Carlo, Bavaria, Berlin, Vienna state and other operas.

Following the premiere of Ludwig van Beetehoven, Fifth, "Fate", Symphony (1808), writer E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote his essay "Instrumental Beethoven Music": "Could another such Beethoven work that would strengthen all his art as this full The peak, firmly leads the listener to the world of infinity!
Vilnius Festival '25 Organizers:

Lithuanian National Philharmonic and Public Institution Vilnius Festivals

Vilnius Festival '25 is supported by Vilnius City Municipality, Juozas and Laima Magelinskai, Artis Centrum Hotels

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