VietNamNet Bridge – Toyota Classics 2015 will bring world-famous operettas to the Hanoi Opera House, No. 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi on October 22.
This year it takes place in seven Asian countries, including Brunei, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, from 10th to 31st of October.
Here is detailed information about the concert:
Toyota Classics 2015 has the participation of the famous Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre from Hungary under the baton of the outstanding conductor László Maklary – who was awarded with the Artisjus Prize, and the Érdemes Művész (Artist of Excellence) Award, together with 4 talented opera singers: Szilvi Szendy, Dávid Szabó, Mónika Fischl and Gergely Boncsér.
Being a perfect musical night with the artful combination of music, literature, history and lively ballet, Toyota Classics 2015 is promised to bring Vietnamese audiences a unique and colorful music party by the mix of musical and operetta pieces.
The pieces which will be performed in Toyota Classics 2015 in Vietnam includes: “West Side Story” Medley of L. Bernstein, “The Phantom of the Opera” Medley of Andrew Lloyd Webber, “The Bat” of Johann Strauss II; “Gypsy Love”, “The Land of Smiles”, “The Merry Widow” of Franz Lehar; “Countess Maritza” and “Gypsy Princess” of Emmerich Kálmán…
The program will be a unique night of different emotional tones, from delightful melodies, passionate love songs, deep sorrow of separation, obsession of love, to optimistic melodies for beautiful life.
Especially, Toyota Classics 2015 has the first-time participation of local talented violinist Hoang Tuan Cuong who received a special award at the international violin competition “Ludwig Spohr“(Freiburg, Germany) in 1994 and the first prize in the “Max Reger International Chamber music competition” (Sondershausen, Germany) in 1996.
Tuan Cuong will perform the “Romance No.2 in F major Op.50” of L.v.Beethoven in Toyota Classics 2015. He had his solo performances at stages around the world such as Germany, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Austrian and Finland.
During the course of his performing career, Tuan Cuong worked with orchestras such as Max Burch Pilharmonie, Chamber orchestra Oratoin del Gonfalone Roma, Saigon Symphonie Orchester and HBSO.
Since 2004, he became a member of the First Violin in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg – Germany.
Program
J. Strauss II: The Bat – Overture
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) is the unrivaled Waltz King, who composed more than 800 waltzes, polkas and other pieces that helped define the world of Vienna in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Of his seventeen operettas, The Bat (“Die Fledermaus”), first performed at the Theater an der Wien on April 5, 1874, stands at the pinnacle of the genre.
It is a merry tale of revenge played on a certain banker named Eisenstein by his good friend, Doctor Falke.
The overture is a sprightly potpourri of tantalizing selections from the many delightful melodies that lay in store just beyond the first curtain.
E. Kálmán: The Gypsy Princess – Duet of Stasi and Boni, ’That’s Love – Stupid Love’
Kálmán’s first major hit in Vienna, “The Gypsy Princess,” is a comedy of manners in about a certain Count Edwin of the Viennese upper crust and a cabaret singer named Sylva who are in love.
Boni and Stasi were childhood friends who happened to meet after many years at the residence of Count Edwin – and soon realized they were meant for each other.
But their love duet gives an oddly backhanded expression to their feelings. “Young Lady,” sings Boni, “consider these men you see/ Some are old, some young/ But for all their diversity, most end up going for the dregs.”
J. Strauss II: Voices of Spring Waltz
Besides composing the still oft-performed “Die Fledermaus” and many other operettas, Johann Strauss Jr. became known as the “Waltz King,” eclipsing his father, who was known as the “Father of the Waltz.”
This waltz, evocative of spring’s awakening, is a favorite choice for musical programs themed on the seasons.
F. Lehár: The Land of Smiles – Aria of Sou-Chong, ’My Heart Belongs to You’
Richard Tauber, the Austrian operatic tenor whose renown was exceeded only by Caruso’s, sang a series of operetta parts created for him by Lehár.
“My Heart Belongs to You” was an especially beloved “Tauberlied.”
Unusually for an operetta, “The Land of Smiles” has a melancholy ending, with lovers parted rather than united.
A Viennese countess marries a Chinese mandarin, but, despite his love, she fails to adjust to life at the Peking court.
L. Bernstein: West Side Story Medley – ’Maria, Tonight, America’
West Side Story is an American musical with music by Leonard Bernstein. The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood.
This musical was groundbreaking because of its tragic tone, sophisticated musical style and innovative extended dance sequences.
The music has elements of opera, musical, jazz and Latin-American dance music.
F. Lehár: The Merry Widow – March Septet, ’You are Back Where You First Began’
The Merry Widow is based on the story – concerning a rich widow, Hanna and her countrymen’s attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband.
The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna and continues to be frequently revived and recorded.
“You are Back Where You First Began” is sung by male solo singers in the Act 2.
F. Lehár: The Merry Widow – Grisette Song
This area is performed at the beginning of the Act 3. Valencienne, wife of Baron Zeta, entertained guests in the party of the ballroom of Hanna, the wealthy widow.
The area is very cheerful and contains can-can dances.
A. L. Webber: The Phantom of the Opera Medley – ’Christine & Fantom Duet, Music of the Night, All I Ask of You’
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart.
Based on the French novel by Gaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious disfigured musical genius.
The musical opened in London’s West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988.
Inspired in part by an earlier musical version of the same story by Ken Hill, Lloyd Webber’s music is sometimes operatic but maintains the form and structure of a musical throughout.
J. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Although it is commonly believed that Brahms composed a total of 21 Hungarian Dances, these works were in fact almost merely arrangements of existing dances.
In his younger days as a pianist, Brahms was friendly with a Hungarian violinist, Remenyi, and together they performed and toured, very often entertaining their audiences with their joint renditions of Hungarian gypsy dances known to Remenyi.
There is no evidence to suggest that Brahms arranged these dances knowing them to be compositions by other composers.
It is suggested that he genuinely and mistakenly believed all of them to be folk dances descended through gypsy traditions. In fact some of them were indeed written by other composers.
Nevertheless his arrangements were very successful and when published, they were very profitable for him.
E. Kálmán: The Gypsy Princess – Hurrah Quartet
This is sung by Sylva, Stasi, Edwin and Boni in the Act 2. All four solo singers sing “This life is for living, so have no misgiving, and live for all you’re worth.
Hurrah, hurrah, for joy beyond measure, and infinite pleasure, that’s why we’re here on earth, to you, to you.”
E. Kálmán: The Gypsy Princess – Aria of Sylva, ’The Mountains are My Home’
Sylva sings this love song before a packed audience of devoted fans before her departure for a tour of America.
“I’ll have nothing to do with caprices and philandering. Give me only true love’s blazing orb!!”
E. Kálmán: Countess Maritza – Aria of Tassilo ’Greet for Me the Sweet Ladies’’
Kálmán’s years in Vienna were his most productive ones. The war disrupted life but he composed “The Countess Maritza” in 1924 and established his career as a well-known composer.
After the Nazis came to power in 1922, his music was banned first in Germany then in Austria. In 1940 he fled to the United States.
As he never repeated his success in Vienna, this song recalls memories of nostalgic Vienna.
E. Kálmán: Countess Maritza – Duet of Maritza and Zsupán, ’Come With Me to Varasdin’
This is a comic duet between a Yugoslavian baron bent on sweeping the attractive countess off her feet and the strong-willed countess, who has no intention of being swept anywhere, especially to some country estate not in Hungary.
The hapless baron had only come to Maritza’s estate because she happened to have hit on his name when she made a phony marriage announcement to discourage would-be suitors.
F. Lehár: Gypsy Love – Aria of Ilona, ’When I Hear the Sound of the Cimbalom’
Together with “The Merry Widow” and “The Count of Luxembourg”, “Gypsy Love” is Lehár’s one of the most successful operettas.
After its triumphant Vienna premiere in 1910, it was performed all over the world from Broadway to the Far East.
The landowner Ilona sings “When I hear the sound of the cimbalom, it makes my heart contract; sweet land of my mother-tongue, Homeland!”
E. Kálmán: Countess Maritza – Aria of Tassilo, ’Come, Gypsy’
Tassilo, the son of an aristocratic family that has fallen into poverty, takes a job as bailiff under an assumed name on Countess Maritza’s estate.
At a banquet, he sings this number, which uses Hungarian pastoral strains to evoke a bittersweet image of the waning Austro-Hungarian upper class society.
“Come, gypsy and play for me! Let my heart feel in full the joy, along with the pain and the sorrow.”
E. Kálmán: Countess Maritza – ’Nut Brown Maiden from the Prairie
In order to save her struggling estate from bankruptcy, Maritza enlists the help of her guests in working the land, and they sing a rollicking working-song as they do so (“Nut brown maiden from the Prairie.”).
After that, all works out and Tassilo and Maritza are eventually united, encouraging everyone to “Waltz our worries away”!
The Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre
The Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre is one of the oldest and most successful theatres of the Hungarian capital. In 1923, the city of Budapest decided to give the genre of operetta a home of its own.
With the opening of the Metropolitan Operetta Theatre, the Hungarian capital saw the beginning of the “silver operetta” period by giving a new and permanent home to the genre.
In the history of the theatre, the most important thing was to cherish the traditions of the classic operetta while enriching it with modern artistic solutions.
Next to Vienna, Budapest is the other capital of the operetta and anyone who comes to our theatre can see the high quality of the genre represented here.
Nowadays it functions as a musical theatre with two divisions: Hungarian operettas and their modern descendants, that is contemporary Hungarian musicals on its program on the one hand, and musicals based on literary or historical topics aimed at a younger generation on the other.
More than five hundred shows are performed here annually, in front of an audience of four hundred thousand people, i.e. today it is one of the theatres with the highest number of visitors in Hungary.
Operettas of the popular operetta composers Kálmán Emmerich, Franz Lehár, Ábrahám Paul, Jenő Huszka, Albert Szirmai, Szabolcs Fényes and works of their today’s followers, the successful music composers Claude-Michel Schönberg, Gerard Presgurvic, Sylvester Lévay, Ferenc Jávori, Tibor Kocsák, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos and Levente Szörényi are all presented here on stage with performances such as The Csárdás Princess, Countess Maritza, The Gypsy Princess, Ball at the Savoy, Baroness Lili, Mike the Magnate, Miss Saigon, Rebecca, Romeo and Juliet, Elisabeth, Mozart! and the world musical version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The creative teams of the theatre arrange one co-production after another with partner theatres in St. Petersburg, Bucharest, Yekaterinburg, Prague, Salzburg and Erfurt; the theatre company is regularly on tour, performing in numerous countries and cities in Europe and Asia with operettas, musical productions and gala performances.
In the autumn of 2011, the Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre won against numerous international rivals and obtained the performing rights for the musical The Beauty and the Beast for German-speaking countries.
The Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre, which has been awarded the title “Superbrands” for its excellent achievements (2012, 2013, 2014), organizes top-ranking international music competitions regularly, such as the Kálmán Emmerich International Operetta-Musical Composer Competition in 2012 as a sequel to the Ferenc Lehár International Operetta Competition and the Sylvester Lévay International Musical Singing Competition.
In 2013, the Hungarian operetta became ‘Hungaricum’ and it is also among the National Treasures of Hungary.
About Conductor László Makláry
László Makláry graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, and later attended a Karajan masterclass in Salzburg. Following that, he performed in Szeged in various genres, including operettas, musical dramas and operas with the guidance of Viktor Vaszy.
He was introduced to the musical genre on New York’s Broadway on a conducting course, during which he met Leonard Bernstein. This encounter had a great impression on him and his professional career.
In 1975, he became the director of the Children’s Theatre of Budapest. From 1976, he worked as the music director of Madách Theatre. Since 1979, he works as the music director of Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre.
He regularly conducts symphonic concerts and releases records with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, the Hungarian MÁV Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian Telekom Symphonic Orchestra and the symphonic orchestra of Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre.
He was awarded with the Artisjus Prize, and the Érdemes Művész (Artist of Excellence) Award.
About Violinist Hoang Tuan Cuong
Violinist Hoang Tuan Cuong was born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City in a musical traditional family.
He began studying the violin at the age of five with his father (Professor Hoang Cuong, ex-Director of HCMC Conservatory of Music).
After becoming a pupil of HCMC Conservatory of Music, he has achieved various prestigious awards, for example: First place in the “Young Talent Violin Competition” in HCMC(1989)and First place in the “Autumm National Music Competition“ in Hanoi(1990).
In 1994, 14 years of age, Tuan Cuong received the scholarship from Professor Wolgang Marschner -the president of” Pflüger-Stiftung” Freiburg.
In the same year, he received a special award at the international violin competition “Ludwig Spohr“(Freiburg, Germany). 2 years later, he won the first prize in the” Max Reger International Chamber music competition” (Sondershausen, Germany).
While being a student of the Freiburg Institute of Music, Tuan Cuong went on to study with Professor Rainer Kussmaul (Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra).
Under the guidance of professor Kussmaul, he participated and achieved the Förderpreis award at the “International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart” (Augsburg, Germany).
He also participated in the masterclass trainings by Professors: Aaron Rosand, Rugierro Ricci, ShmuelAshkenasi and Thomas Brandis.
He had his solo performances at stages around the world such as Germany, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Austrian and Finland. During the course of his performing career, Tuan Cuong worked with orchestras such as Max Burch Pilharmonie, Chamber orchestra Oratoin del Gonfalone Roma, Saigon Symphonie Orchester and HBSO.
Since 2004, he became a member of the First Violin in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg – Germany.
Tickets
Ticket price: 3 ranks:
– Rank A: VND 1.200.000/ticket
– Rank B: VND 1.000.000/ticket
– Rank C: VND 700.000/ticket
• Time: From Oct 14th 2015
• Venue: Ticket corner of Hanoi Opera House – No. 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
• Tel: 01655 178 748
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