Opera Soprano Danielle de Niese is more than just the most magnetic presence in modern classical music or the woman described by the New York Times magazine as "opera's coolest soprano." She's also the performer who's shredding the classical rulebook with her unique combination of artistic credibility and exotic 21st-century allure.

 

 

The Lucerne Festival Strings have been one of the "most distinguished chamber orchestras in Europe" and have ranked for 60 years now as the leading chamber orchestra of Central Switzerland. The Australian-Swiss violinist Daniel Dodds has been artistic director and leader of the orchestra since 2012.

 

 

Soprano: Danielle de Niese
Artistic Director: Daniel Dodds
Performance: Lucerne Festival Strings

 

Mozart: Divertimento for Strings in D major K. 136
Mozart: a selection of arias from operas
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade G major
Gioachino Rossini: "Una voce poco fa" from Barber of Seville
Luigi Arditi: "Il Bacio" (The Kiss–a Waltz Song), Version for Soprano and String Orchestra

 

- Intermission -

 

Bela Bartok: Divertimento Sz.113 BB.118 for String Orchestra (1939)

Bernstein: "Dream with me" from Peter Pan

Bernstein: a song from either West Side Story or from On The Town

Bernstein: Waltz from «Divertimento» (1980)
Broadway-Songs, for soprano and strings,
"Don't rain on my parade" Funny Girl (Styne and Merrill)
"I enjoy being a girl" Flower Drum Song (Rogers and Hammerstein)
"Can't help loving that man of mine" (E Flat major)
"I Hate men"