
Dear opera friends
We had actually planned to kick off our anniversary year - 60 years of Friends of Zurich Opera and International Opera Studio - with a general meeting. We are all the more pleased to inform you that the prelude has been a success after all and could not be more brilliant:
Starting in mid-December, the Opera House will present Curtain Call, a series of unique concert evenings. Prominent singers will perform key works from the vocal repertoire on the big stage together with young talents from the International Opera Studio. With the financial support of us opera friends, the opera house has been able to engage four world stars: Diana Damrau, Anna Bonitatibus, Thomas Hampson and Benjamin Bernheim. The masters of their profession and the young artists work out the concert program during a three-day workshop.
All concerts are recorded with several cameras. In addition, a camera team accompanies all artists in the workshops and observes the creation of the musical program backstage. These impressions will be presented as short documentaries. The digital broadcast of the "Curtain Call" concerts and documentaries will take place over Christmas and New Year's Eve on the website.
Best regards
Your board of directors
Curtain Call with singers personalities and young talents from the International Opera Studio
Curtain Call with Anna Bonitatibus

Anna Bonitatibus, mezzo-soprano, will work with our young artists from the International Opera Studio during a three-day workshop on the program below.
Scenes and arias from Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Le nozze di Figaro, as well as Rossini's Il barbiere di Seviglia
Anna Bonitatibus, mezzo-soprano
with
Erica Petrocelli, Soprano
Lina Dambrauskaité, Soprano
Luca Bernard, Tenor
Yuriy Hadzetskyy, baritone
Vladyslav Tlushch, baritone
Andrew Moore, bass baritone
Ilya Altukhov, bass baritone
Oleg Davydov, Bass
Joanna Laszczkowska, William Green, Adam Rogala, Andrea del Bianco, piano
Curtain Call with Benjamin Bernheim

Benjamin Bernheim, tenor, will develop the program below with our young artists from the International Opera Studio during a three-day workshop.
Scenes and arias from Verdi's Rigoletto, as well as Massenet's Manon and Werther
Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor
with
Ziyi Dai, Soprano
Sandra Hamaoui, soprano (member of the opera ensemble)
Lina Dambrauskaité, Soprano
Siena Light Miller, mezzo-soprano
Yannick Debus, baritone
Joanna Laszczkowska, William Green, Adam Rogala, piano
Curtain Call with Diana Damrau

Diana Damrau, Soprano, will work with our young artists from the International Opera Studio during a three-day workshop on the program below.
Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, R. Strauss, Wolf and Reger
Diana Damrau, Soprano
with
Andrei Skliarenko, Tenor
Yuriy Hadzetskyy, baritone
Brent Michael Smith, Bass
Adrian Kelly, Piano
Curtain Call with Thomas Hampson

Thomas Hampson, baritone, will work with our young artists from the International Opera Studio during a three-day workshop on the program below.
Scenes and arias from Mozart's Così fan tutte, as well as selected songs by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert
Thomas Hampson, baritone
with
Erica Petrocelli, Soprano
Siena Light Miller, mezzo-soprano
Savelii Andreev, Tenor
Luca Bernard, Tenor
Luis Magallanes, Tenor
Yannick Debus, baritone
Andrew Moore, bass baritone
Joanna Laszczkowska, William Green, Adam Rogala, Enrico Cacciari, piano