From August 12 to 21, Birgitta Festival 2010 will take place in the ruins of the convent of St. Bridget, Tallinn. The festival program offers opera and ballet performances, the concert of jazz arrangements of opera music and traditional convent day on August 15. In addition to our performers, the main guests are the Moscow Novaya Opera and Kyiv Modern-Ballet Theatre.
The festival will be opened on August 12 by Christoph Willibard Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice. It will be performed by Helen Lokuta, Mikael Bellini (Sweden), Heldur Harry Põlda, Physical theatre ensemble Pan-Optikum Theatre, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Choir Voces Musicales and conductor Andres Mustonen. Orfeo ed Euridice will be also staged on August 13.
Kyiv Modern-Ballet Theatre will perform ballets Bolero, Underground and Ward No. 6 on August 14 and ballet Carmen. TV on music by Georges Bizet on August 15.
On August 18, Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin will be performed by Moscow Novaya Opera (conducted by Jan Latham-Koening from UK). Guests from Moscow will also perform Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini on August 20 (conducted by Eri Klas).
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Estonian composer Eino Tamberg, his ballet Joanna tentata will be staged on August 19. Carl Orff’s Carmina burana conducted by Eri Klas will fill the second half of the evening, performed by soloists Marion Melnik and Mati Turi, orchestra and choir of Moscow Novaya Opera, Tallinn Boys’ Choir, and Dance Theatre Fine 5.
The closing concert of the festival Opera@pop-jazz will take place on August 21. The concert will present jazz arrangements of well-known arias from the famous operas, performed by Heli Veskus, Oliver Kuusik and René Soom, soloists from Moscow Novaya Opera, pop-jazz singers Sofia Rubina and Kristjan Kasearu and Estonian Dream Big Band with orchestra of Moscow Novaya Opera, conducted by Eri Klas.
Birgitta Festival is organised by Tallinn Philharmonic Society, the artistic director is Eri Klas.
Precise program: Birgitta Festival
Agnes Toomla