The 2019 season at Grafenegg opens with voices and violin: Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva, French baritone Ludovic Tézier and Austrian violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian are accompanied by the Tonkunstler Orchestra in the romantic setting of the castle grounds. Yutaka Sado conducts a programme of arias and duets, with a firework display set to «Pomp and Circumstance».

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PROGRAM
Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky - Polonaise from the opera "Eugen Onegin"
Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky - Mélodie from "Souvenir d’un lieu cher" Op. 42 (arrangement for violin and orchestra: Alexander Glasunow)
Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky - "Ja vas ljublju", "Als deine Liebe du mir schenktest" aria of Jelezki from the opera "Pique Dame"
Georges Bizet - "L’amour est un oiseau rebelle" Habanera from the opera "Carmen"
Giuseppe Verdi - "Per me giunto" Posa's death from the opera "Don Carlo"
Giacomo Puccini - "O mio babbino caro" aria of Lauretta from the opera "Gianni Schicchi"
Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo from the opera "L’amico Fritz"
Umberto Giordano - "Nemico della patria" aria of Gérard from the opera "Andrea Chénier"
Jules Massenet - "Il est doux, il est bon" aria of Salomé from the opera "Hérodiade"
Franz von Suppé - Overture "Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien"
Fritz Kreisler - "Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta" (arrangement for violin and orchestra: Christoph Ehrenfellner)
Franz Lehár - "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" song of Sou Chong from the operetta "Das Land des Lächelns"