Schedule

2024 Birgit Nilsson Days - Verdi's Un ballo in maschera

Star soloists Joyce El-Khoury and Michel Fabiano will make an acclaimed return to Båstad leading a cast of both international and Swedish singers, including Fredrik Zetterström, Elizabeth DeShong, Marina Monzó, Anton Ljungqvist and Anders Lorentzson. The concert staging led by conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi, and stage director Staffan Valdemar Holm, also features the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and a choir of amatuer local singers from across the region.

Graf von Luna Pavel Yankovsky
Leonora Ekaterina Sannikova
Azucena Elizabeth DeShong
Manrico Rodrigo Porras Garulo
Ferrando Michael Nagl
Inez Olivia Johnson
Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Staatsopernchor Stuttgart, Kinderchor der Staatsoper Stuttgart

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PROGRAMM

Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem (1868–1874)

‍Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Wiener Singakademie

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Sopran

Elizabeth DeShong, Mezzosopran

Saimir Pirgu, Tenor

Tareq Nazmi, Bass

Daniel Harding, Dirigent

Handel's Orlando at Théâtre du Châtelet

Katarina Bradić (Orlando), Siobhan Stagg (Angelica), Elizabeth DeShong (Medoro), Giulia Semenzato (Dorinda), Riccardo Novaro (Zoroastro)

The most recent opera by preeminent American composer John Adams—a glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama—has its Met premiere. Following her debut in the company premiere of Adams’s El Niño in 2024, soprano Julia Bullock stars as the irresistible Cleopatra, one of theater’s most complex and captivating characters, opposite bass-baritone Gerald Finley as the conflicted Antony. Adams himself takes the podium to conduct his lyrical and richly orchestrated score, leading a new staging by groundbreaking director Elkhanah Pulitzer that transports the story of troubled romance and political strife from ancient Rome to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s. Tenor Paul Appleby is Caesar, who goes to war with Antony, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong is Caesar’s sister and Antony’s forsaken wife Octavia.

‍Ludwig van Beethoven Missa Solemnis in D major Op. 123

Conductor TUGAN SOKHIEV

‍Soprano ROSA FEOLA

‍Mezzo-soprano ELIZABETH DESHONG

‍Tenor SEBASTIAN KOHLHEPP

‍Bass HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN