Lawrence Brownlee and Levy Sekgapane

Lawrence Brownlee & Levy Sekgapane

Tenors
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

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Lawrence Brownlee & Levy Sekgapane tenors
Giulio Zappa piano

20 September 2023 – 8PM

Belcanto and melodies, with arias and duets by Gaetano Donizetti, Gioacchino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini and Giuseppe Verdi

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As Geneva audiences well know from his memorable performances here of Ramiro and Lindoro/Almaviva, Lawrence Brownlee is one of the exceptional Rossinian tenors of our time. And for his much-awaited return to the Place de Neuve stage, he brings with him a young colleague, to wow us with a double bill of sheer bel canto enjoyment. Less known than his American colleague, Levy Sekgapane, born in South Africa in 1991 won in 2015 the first Belvedere Prize in Amsterdam, the same year the Montserrat Caballé Prize, and in 2017 the Operalia Competition. Here are two equally virtuosic singers, who appreciate and respect each other and no doubt entertain a form of mentor-mentee relationship… but who are two very different artists. In Levy, we have the energy of youth, liveliness, fantasy, brightness, singing as elation; in Larry, experience, sense of drama, intensity, musicality of the highest order, singing as a sharing of emotion. Taking turns at going solo or joining forces, this all-Italian evening of musical rapture and virtuoso vocal pyrotechnics is going to be something to remember. 

Programme

Gioacchino Rossini
(Levy Sekgapane)
La promessa
La lontananza
Le Sylvain

Gaetano Donizetti
(Lawrence Brownlee)
L’amor funesto
Me voglio fa”na casa
Il sospiro

Giuseppe Verdi
(Levy Sekgapane)
Il tramonto
Lo spazzacamino

Vincenzo Bellini
(Lawrence Brownlee)
Torna, vezzosa Filide
La ricordanza

Gioachino Rossini
(Lawrence Brownlee, Levy Sekgapane)
Duetto : « Donala a questo cuore »
(Ricciardo e Zoraide)

— Entracte —

Gaetano Donizetti
(Levy Sekgapane)
Aria : « T’amo qual s’ama un angelo »
(Lucrezia Borgia)

Gaetano Donizetti
(Lawrence Brownlee)
Aria : « Seul sur la terre »
(Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal)

Gioacchino Rossini
(Levy Sekgapane)
Aria : « Tu seconda il mio disegno »
(Il turco in Italia)

Gioacchino Rossini
(Lawrence Brownlee)
Aria : « Cessa di piu resistere »
(Il barbiere di Siviglia)

Gioacchino Rossini
(Lawrence Brownlee, Levy Sekgapane)
Duetto : « Ah vieni, nel tuo sangue »
(Otello)

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