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Ian RosenblattPresenting the major singers of today and the stars of tomorrow, the Rosenblatt Recitals are London's only world-class concert season of opera and song.
December 2010 marks ten years since the first-ever Rosenblatt recital by Italian tenor Giuseppe Sabbatini. Launching the 2010-11 season is another Italian tenor, Antonino Siragusa, returning after four years, whose virtuosity and finesse in bel canto opera, graces Opera Houses such as La Scala, the Metropolitan, Paris and Vienna.
As London’s only world-class concert season of opera and song, the Rosenblatt Recitals presents the major singers of today and the stars of tomorrow. The rest of 2010 brings two names to watch: the Moscow-born lyric baritone Rodion Pogossov, now a regular presence at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and lyric tenor Yijie Shi, who, after studies in his native Shanghai and in Tokyo, moved to Austria before capturing the audience’s imagination at the 2008 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
In January 2011, a special concert at the Royal Festival Hall presents another tenor noted for the Rossini repertoire, the brilliant Juan Diego Flórez, celebrating ten years since his first Rosenblatt recital. At the Royal Opera House in 2008, Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran saw him sparring with the sparkling Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, who makes her series debut in February. Further recitals will bring the charismatic Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka, the sumptuous British soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn and the aristocratic South African bass Vuyani Mlinde. World-class talent in every sense.
Ian I. Rosenblatt