Hudson conducts RSNO at Opera Festival Scotland

Hudson returns to the RSNO to conduct in the inaugural Opera Festival Scotland at the wonderful Caird Hall, Dundee.

A HIGHLIGHT OF OPERA FESTIVAL'S INAUGURAL PROGRAMME

One of the biggest operatic singing competitions in Scotland, the Young Artists Singing Competition, is the highlight of Opera Festival Scotland‘s inaugural programme. The festival welcomes both national and international finalists Ted Black, Julieth Lozano, Suzie Gibbons and Jacobo Ochoa to perform in front of a high-profile panel of judges.  

Panellists include international soprano and Chair of Voice at the Royal College of Music Janis Kelly, award-winning composer Paul Mealor, Head of Casting for English National Opera Michelle Williams, Head of Casting for Scottish Opera Sarah-Jane Davies, Scottish soprano and educator Linda Ormiston, and General Director for Opera for Peace Julia Lagahuzere.  

Accompanied by a Dundee favourite, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and conducted by John Frederick Hudson, the three finalists will sing some of the most challenging music in the opera world creating an exciting programme combined with competitive energy.

John Frederick Hudson conducts the RSNO at Opera Festival Scotland, Caird Hall.

CONCERT PROGRAMME

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Sinfonia (Overture)

SUSIE GIBBONS, SOPRANO

Smetana: Och, jaky zal1…Ten lasky sen jak krasnybl” (Prodana Nevesta)
The Bartered Bride

Mozart: Porgi amor
Le nozze di Figaro

Puccini: Quando m’en vo’ Soletta, Musetta’s Waltz
La bohème

Gounod: Ah! Je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir, Jewel Song
Faust

JACOBO OCHOA, BASS

Mozart: Rivolgete A Lui Lo Sguardo

Tchaikovsky: Vy mne pisali…Kogda bi zhim domashnim krugom
Eugene Onegin

Wagner: Wie Todesahnung…O du mein Holder Abendstern
Tannhäuser

Donizetti: Cruda funesta smania…La Pieta del suo favore
Lucia di Lammermoor

JULIETH LOZANO, SOPRANO

Rossini: En proie à la tristesse
Le Comte Ory

Mozart: Ach, ich fühl’s
Die Zauberflöte

Puccini: Quando m’en vo’ Soletta, Musetta’s Waltz
La bohème

Bizet: Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante, Micaëla’s aria
Carmen

JUDGES DELIBERATE

Johann Strauss II: Overture to Die Fledermaus

John Frederick Hudson conducts the RSNO at Opera Festival Scotland, Caird Hall.

Photography by Lydia Smith