ABOUT THE CONCERT
Tetelman and Kleyn - Impossible Love
Tivoli Copenhagen Phil
Conductor: Garrett Keast
Tenor: Jonathan Tetelman
Soprano: Yana Kleyn
Program:
Excerpts from Charles Gounod's Faust , Riccardo Zandona's Francesca da Rimini , Puccini's Le Villi , Giordano's Fedora and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet.
He takes down the largest concert halls around the world, and now he has found his way to Tivoli again with a concert where he has composed the entire program himself. The brilliant, Chilean-born tenor star Jonathan Tetelman is coming to Copenhagen, and he has conjured up the idea that the very best opera duets are those between lovers, who we already know from the start often never get to see each other. Something very special happens with both the scenic expression and the composers' imagination when the all-encompassing love, which we as the audience know cannot be allowed to unfold, becomes the focal point.
This is where the very best arias and duets are born, and on this star-studded evening we will hear a terrific selection of the best tragic love duets. We will hear excerpts from Charles Gounod's Faust , where seduction and vanity have fatal consequences; from Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini , where the lovers die in each other's arms, stabbed to death by a brother; from Puccini's Le Villi , where a scorned woman returns from the dead as an avenging spirit; and from Umberto Giordano's Fedora , where political intrigue plays the lovers off against each other in a drama that ends with a poisoned gold piece. And then, of course, we will not miss hearing from the unhappy couple of them all: Romeo and Juliet .
It's going to be an evening where it's going to really hurt - but in a good way. Jonathan Tetelman, with his wonderfully warm tenor voice, will go for both the tear ducts and the goosebumps in a program that offers big, well-known hits as well as exciting new acquaintances.
Jonathan Tetelman is one of the greatest talents of his generation. His unique vocals have been described as “incomparable, luminous and distinct” with a “velvety nerve.” In recent seasons alone, he has sung at The Met in New York, the Festival Aix-en-Provence and the Deutsche Oper.