Bel Canto Concert Tour

Mar 29, 2015

Diana Damrau and her husband, bass-baritone Nicolas Testé, will tour Europe this season with their “In Love with Bel Canto” program, featuring concerts with acclaimed orchestras at some of the continent’s most renowned venues. Works featured include arias and overtures from the most loved operas of the Bel Canto era and beyond, including Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Verdi’s La traviata and Luisa Miller.

The tour begins on April 10 at the Auditorium Rainier III with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo led by Jacques Lacombe, and continue on April 13 at Oper Frankfurt with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and Maestro David Giménez. They perform on April 15 as part of the Wiener Konzerthaus Great Voices series, with the Symphonieorchester der Volksoper Wien led by Mr. Giménez, and travel to Germany on April 17 for a concert at the Herkulessaal with the Münchner Symphoniker and Giménez. Ms. Damrau and Mr. Testé reunite this summer for a Bel Canto concert at Salerno’s Teatro Giuseppe Verdi on May 9, a performance in Nürnberg on June 10, a Gala Concert on June 14 at the Landestheater Linz, and a “Pearls of Belcanto” concert on July 8 in Ulm, at the Klosterhof Wiblingen.