Aigul Akhmetshina & Long Long

The March performance of the series offers an extraordinary Stars' Recital: not one, but two opera stars will perform. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina joined the prestigious Jette Parker Young Artists Programme of the Royal Opera House in London in the 2017/18 season, where she already took on one of her emblematic roles, Carmen, not only in Bizet’s opera, but also in composer Marius Constant’s adaptation created for director Peter Brook. In recent years, she has appeared on many of the world’s leading opera and festival stages, from San Francisco and New York to Madrid, London, Glyndebourne, Berlin, Tokyo, and Salzburg. Her repertoire spans from bel canto to French Romanticism. Also gracing the Salzburg Festival was Chinese tenor Long Long, one of the most promising young lyric tenors of his generation, who likewise joined an opera studio in 2017/18, namely the studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. His first role there was Vaudémont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, followed by numerous major roles such as Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), and Rodolfo (La bohème). Out of the intertwining of a mezzo-soprano, a tenor, and a piano emerges a truly special evening.