During the opera gala with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic conducted by Gianluca Marcianò, Jonathan Tetelman will perform as soloist. The American tenor has enjoyed the status of a star of opera theatres for several years now. His success was magnified by his excellent albums recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. The artist, who was awarded the Opus Klassik award in the discovery of the year category two years ago, specialises in Italian repertoire. Despite this, the joint concert of the singer with the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra will begin with French music.

It will open with excerpts from the works by Charles Gounod: the opening fragment from Romeo and Juliet and an aria from Faust, the libretto of which is based on the first part of Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s drama. Jules Massenet also reached for themes from the works of the Weimar classic, composing the opera Werther to a libretto based on The Sorrows of Young Werther, a fragment of which will be performed next. The recital include works by the brilliant Giuseppe Verdi. This time, the musicians will reach for a slightly lesser-known part of his oeuvre: the operas Macbeth and Luisa Miller from the 1840s.

The Italian part of the evening will also feature compositions by Umberto Giordano and Pietro Mascagni. At the end, famous fragments from Giacomo Puccini’s operas will be performed, and Tetelman will prove that it was not without reason that he was included by Gramophone magazine among the top ten performers of the immortal parts from these works. Tetelman will sing the aria E lucevan le stelle sung in Tosca by Cavaradossi awaiting execution in the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome. The concert will end with the delightful Nessum dorma – Prince Calaf's aria from Puccini’s last, unfinished opera Turandot. Calaf, il principe ignoto (the unknown prince), muses about the title character, certain that the cruel princess will not be able to guess his name, indeed her ignorance will lead to her becoming his wife in the end.