The Bonn Opera gala has not offered the guests not only high-class arias, but the German Aids Foundation also made a substantial donation proceeds with you.
It might have been his wine glasses from the reception in the auditorium, you would probably be shattered, Brill, the sopranos archived inside Ruth Iniesta, Olena Tokar, and Veronika Dzhioeva in the high registers of their instruments. The mezzo-soprano and experienced Rossini interpreter of Lilly Jorstad enthusiastic as Cinderella with her coloratura by all voting. The Shouts of Bravo from the audience were earned.
Singing for a good cause
The German Aids-Foundation had invited to the 8. Opera gala in the Opera house in Bonn. For the benefit of international singers, musicians and dancers appeared without a fee, and sang Opera arias from your Favorite.
Presenter Anja Bröker (l.) with the sopranos Olena Tokar, Veronika Dzhioeva and the mezzo-soprano Lilly Jorstad
Bassist Alexander Roslavets impressed with his deep sonorous voice in Verdi’s Macbeth, Beethoven’s Fidelio. The Tenor Andrei Danilov did not understand it, the dwarf “little Zack” from Offenbach’s Opera “Hoffmann’s only an expression of narratives” strongly voting to interpret, but to imitate an actor, too. And also the baritone Mattia Olivieri convinced with voice and facial Expressions in the Aria of Ford from Verdi’s Falstaff.
The Spanish Tenor Airam Hernandez had opted for “Una furtiva lagrima” (A furtive tear) from Donizetti’s “love potion”, for which he received Shouts of Bravo and much applause. He also sang Werther’s song “Why you Werther Wake me up” from Jules Massenet’s Opera. “I have chosen these two arias, because they speak of the hope,” said Hernandez of the German wave. The yoke also to the context of the Aids-Gala. “Some people, who are suffering from HIV, thinking maybe that was the end of her life, but that’s not true. This Aids foundations give them hope.”
Aids is still incurable
Aids is today not curable, – said the initiators of the Opera gala, Helmut, Andreas and Arndt Hartwig for the opening of the Gala, even if the medicine have done since the spread of the disease in the ‘ 80s considerable progress. Deutsche Welle told Arndt Hartwig that people with AIDS were also discriminated against in Germany still. “There are still Doctors who have problems to get HIV patients to use, and we would like to clarify that this fear must not be.”
Counter-tenor Nils hikers also supports its own Charity projects
The counter-tenor Nils hikers defeated in the highest male voice with ease flirtatious and charming Aria of the Caesar in Handel’s Opera of the same name. The topic of Aids is the 25-year-old heart. “I still believe, Aids needs more attention and support,” he told DW. As a young singer and artist, he always meets colleagues who carry the HIV Virus. “There are also older colleagues, who were infected with Aids many years ago and now subject to serious health problems.”
Aids education and prevention are important
The German Aids Foundation fights against discrimination, and advocates for education and particularly for the prevention. Aids prevention is also a concern of the couple Rangar and Uschi Yogeshwar, who have taken over this year, under the auspices of the Opera gala. “Back in the 1980s Aids was in consciousness,” said ARD, a science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. “Today, many young people don’t even know exactly what Aids is.” The couple has supported a regional school project, the young people of the same age to raise awareness of the issue.
The initiators of the Opera gala Helmut Andreas (l.) and Arndt Hartwig (R)
ARD presenter Anja Bröker, led by the evening, caught between the arias again and again a Partner of the German Aids Foundation on the stage. The donations from the Gala will also come to the “Dream-project” in Mozambique. There, HIV support-infected pregnant women and medicines are not supplied, so that the Virus transmits to the children. Dieter Wenderlein from the community of Sant’egidio, described the importance of aid in Mozambique, especially after the devastating ravages that have left the cyclone on the island. “40 000 people are explained in the health centers in HIV treatment” he, “and with our food supplies, we have achieved after the cyclone, already 80 000 people.”
Also, the Deutsche Welle, TV, Online and Radio, many people on the African continent, supported as a Partner the aims of the German Aids Foundation. “As a German international broadcaster, we have the task to bring up the subject again and again to the language,” said artistic Director Peter Limbourg at the Gala. “In Africa, we need to talk more about it and educate.”
Fun and variety must be
Olena Tokar and Airam Hernandez singing in the duet from Verdi’s “La Traviata”
“Do Good, and have joy in it”, each year the Motto of the Opera gala. The Ukrainian soprano Olena Tokar can support this Motto. “Such charity concerts are very important to me,” she said in a DW Interview. “I didn’t always feel like a birthday, if you get yourself the gifts, but something gives.” Tokar touched the hearts not only in a duet with Airam Hernandez from Verdi’s Opera La Traviata, but also with the famous Aria of Mimi from act I of Puccini’s Opera La Bohème, in which she expresses with her warm voice equally joy and sorrow. Because the boy fell in love with Mimi is sick and knows that she will die at the end.
Ruth Iniesta had the “fire in the eyes” in the Polonaise of Elena
The fresh and fiery arias had chosen the Spanish soprano Ruth Iniesta. Cheerful, perky, and with a long breath, she sang the Aria of Norina from Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. For this, she was celebrated as well by the audience as it is for the Polonaise of Elena from the “Barber of Seville” by Géronimo Giménez, in which you Can with breathtaking coloratura. The world-renowned soprano Veronika Dzhioeva had chosen Puccini’s Tosca. The dark warm color of its expansive nuanced voice to underscore the tragedy of the love Aria.
The Opera gala will bring variety. This is not only the artistic Director tenders of pipe is important, but also the Hartwig’s, to ensure that the Opera arias are complemented by other program points, such as films, video presentations, or dance with the dancing couple Theda dellbrück and Ivan Smetkin–. A highlight of the Opera gala of the classical Star guitarist Milos Karadaglic from Montenegro, interpreted the Libertango by Astor Piazzola and the Beatles Song “Here Comes the Sun” was in this regard. “As a player, you play this wonderful ability to classic and Mainstream. Therefore, there is a large audience for the music that I play,” he told Deutsche Welle. “Today, the aim is to celebrate and to raise money. I just want to give the people a good time.”
He was accompanied, as all the singers from the Beethoven orchestra, which was consistently fresh and vibrant. “For us, this is like a holiday,” said conductor and music Director Dirk Kaftan. “It is the only program that we don’t have to put together themselves”. Also the Kaftan was allowed to choose a favorite piece and chose “Köcekce” of the Turkish composer Ulvi Cemal Erkin of 1943. Fireworks Oriental rhythms and melodies that the brass section a lot Can.
Round of applause for Dirk Kaftan and the Bonn Beethoven orchestra
All men are brothers
Also that is unusual at an Opera gala: a call for The European elections. The initiators of Helmut Andreas and Arndt promoted Hartwig to the end of the Gala and voted together with the audience and the Bonn Opera choir, the European anthem, Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to joy from Beethoven’s 9. Symphony. The message “All men are brothers” was heard, also with regard to the Beethoven year 2020, which is celebrated in Beethoven’s birthplace of Bonn.
The many calls for donations of Hartwig’s round-the-Opera gala have been worth it. With a net income of 240 000 Euro, the event was again this year a new donation record for the German AIDS Foundation.