PRESS INFORMATION
From 15th to 20th July 2010 Berlin’s lovliest square, the Gendarmenmarkt, will once more provide the grandiose setting for the Classic Open Air-Festival.
This will be the 19th time that international soloists, orchestras and dancers enchant music lovers from Germany and around the world.
For this year’s “First Night”, as the annual opening concert is called, the programme is given over to popular melodies from opera, operetta and orchestral works. Members of the audience will have the chance to set the actual programme by voting in advance for their favourite works. Hosting the evening is the ebullient and ever popular entertainer Herbert Feuerstein and the concert will be brought to a brilliant finale with a firework display.
World star Lucia Aliberti will take you through the second night with master works by the most famous Italian opera composers of the 19th century, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini. She is partnered by the superb young Icelandic tenor Egill Palsson. The Brandenburgische Staatsorchester Frankfurt an der Oder will be playing under the baton of Howard Griffiths, its principal conductor.
The concert on 17th July will pay homage to the famous Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. International soloists and award-winners from the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, choir and ballet accompanied by the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, will interpret a fascinating medley of his unforgettable works and guarantee that the evening will be a night to remember too!
“Let it Swing!” - Glenn Miller’s famous signature call to his band will provide the theme for the great Berlin Swing Night on 18th July.
Top bands Andrej Hermlin and his Swing Dance Orchestra and Tom Gaebel & His Big Band will present evergreen classics from the heyday of swing not only by Glenn Miller, but also by legends such as Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Duke Ellington and of course the world famous singer Frank Sinatra.
As one of the best swing and jazz singers of our time, Helen Schneider has spent a lifetime on all the great stages of this world and now she will appear as the luminous star of a truly swinging evening.
These are just a few of the many musical surprises awaiting visitors to the 19th festival edition of Classic Open Air on the Gendarmenmarkt!
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