Organization

Salzburger Festspiele

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

Orchestra

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Martha Argerich

Piano

Lang Lang

Singer

Sonya Yoncheva

Soprano

Cecilia Bartoli

Mezzo-soprano

Rolando Villazón

Tenor

Plácido Domingo

Baritone

Cio-Cio-San

Carlo Gerard

Countertenor

Sesto

Hommage Daniel Barenbooim

Salzburg

Austria

Whitsun Festival

Großes Festspielhaus

Hommage Daniel Barenbooim: Concert Various

Public

Private

Leonora Overture in C Major

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, op. 37

Eugene Onegin Op. 24: "Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis"

Madame Butterfly

Andrea Chenier

The Clemency of Titus

Piano Concerto in A Minor, op. 54

'Ch'io Mi Scordi Di Te?', Concert Aria For Soprano, Piano Obbligato And Orchestra, K. 505

The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 (arr. Jakub Muras)

Approved

As an exceptional musician, both as pianist and conductor and initiator of cultural projects, Daniel Barenboim has been enriching the music world for an incredible seven decades. Not only a renowned musician of global stature, he is one of those artists who is actively engaged in peace-making, challenging the limits of political thinking. In 1999 he founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with the aim of uniting young Israeli and Arab instrumentalists in musical dialogue with one another. Barenboim has never lost sight of the need to promote young artists, working with Cecilia Bartoli, for example, in the legendary Salzburg production of Don Giovanni in 1994, or conducting young pianist Lang Lang’s debuts in New York and London in 2001, and continuing his musical partnership with both artists ever since. Rolando Villazón, Jonas Kaufmann and Sonya Yoncheva are among his regular artistic partners, and he paid tribute to his friend Plácido Domingo at the latter’s 50th stage anniversary in Berlin. Barenboim has enjoyed a deep friendship with Zubin Mehta since his Salzburg Festival debut in 1965, while his music-making with Martha Argerich goes right back to his childhood in Buenos Aires, giving their later performances together a particular intimacy. Daniel Barenboim’s eightieth birthday offers the opportunity for his companions of many years to come together for a gala performance in honour of the maestro.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble