I vespri verdiani: Verdi Arias Olga Mykytenko, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Kirill Karabits

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): I masnadieri:
• 1 I masnadieri: Tu del mio Carlo al seno 07:09
• Un ballo in maschera:
• 2 Un ballo in maschera: Morrò, ma prima in grazia 04:13
• Il trovatore:
• 3 Il trovatore: Ne’ tornei! V’apparve 06:28
• I vespri siciliani (Excerpts):
• 4 I vespri siciliani (Excerpts): Arrigo! ah! parli a un core 03:33
• 5 I vespri siciliani (Excerpts): Mercé, dilette amiche 04:07
• Il corsaro:
• 6 Il corsaro: Egli non riede ancora! 05:05
• Attila (Excerpts):
• 7 Attila (Excerpts): Santo di patria 04:52
• 8 Attila (Excerpts): Liberamente or piangi 05:11
• Ernani:
• 9 Ernani: Surta è la notte, e Silva non ritorna! 07:10
• Macbeth (Excerpts):
• 10 Macbeth (Excerpts): Nel dì della vittoria io le incontrai 07:33
• 11 Macbeth (Excerpts): Una macchia è qui tuttora 07:22
• Luisa Miller:
• 12 Luisa Miller: Tu puniscimi, o signore 02:56
• La traviata:
• 13 La traviata: È strano!... è strano!... in core 07:24
• Total Runtime 01:13:03

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Ukrainian soprano Olga Mykytenko has won numerous international awards including the Grand Prix at the Maria Callas International Singing Contest in Athens. Her extraordinary musicality, solid vocal technique, easy coloraturas and strong expression allow her to sing major roles from Iolanta, Mimi and Nedda to Gilda, Violetta and Lucia. Engaged for many years as a soloist at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kiev, where she made her debut, Olga has performed in Opera houses and concert halls around the world. For this, her debut album for Chandos, she brings her interpretations of many of Verdi’s greatest soprano roles from the stage into the studio. Her programme also spans virtually all of Verdi’s operatic output, from Ernani (Elvira) though to Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) and of course taking in Violetta from La Traviata (among many others) on the way. Accompanied by compatriot Kirill Karabits and the wonderful playing of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, this recital is a vocal and musical tour-de-force.

Olga Mykytenko, soprano
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor

Olga Mykytenko
portrayals of more than 25 roles in mainly Italian and Russian repertoire demonstrate her extraordinary musicality, solid voice technique, easy coloraturas combined with strong expression and have led to highest international acclaim and a very busy opera career.

Born in Ukraine, she was a soloist at the National Opera in Kiev from 1995 to 2003. During these years she has won many awards including the Grand Prix at Maria Callas Competition in Athens (1997), 2nd prize and Special Award at Francisco Vinas Contest, Barcelona (1997) and 1st prize at the Queen Sonja International Song Competition in Oslo (2003).

Since 2001, Olga Mykytenko is a regular guest on many of the leading opera stages worldwide: Gilda at Staatsoper Hamburg, Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Malmö Opera, Royal Swedish Opera Stockholm; Nedda at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf; Lucia at the Mariinsky theatre in St. Petersburg, Aalto Theater Essen; Liu at Staatsoper Berlin, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Santiago del Chile, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Greek National Opera; Musetta in Franco Zefirelli's production at the Rome Opera; Mimi at Staatsoper Berlin, Salzburg, Essen, Staatsoper Hamburg, Stockholm, Toulouse, Düsseldorf, Peralada Festival, Royal Opera Oslo; Lauretta at the Metropolitan Opera New York; Iolanta at Theater an der Wien, Tatiana at Opéra de Lyon, Moscow; Amalia (Masnadieri) at Oper Frankfurt, Teatro San Carlo in Napels, Essen, Radio France Festival in Montpellier, Fiordiligi at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Violetta at Staatsoper Hamburg, Bruxelles, Cardiff, Riga, Lisbon, Cologne, and as a cover for Diana Damrau at the Met.

Olga Mykytenko has also sung a vast concert repertoire and performed with many orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Kiev National Orchestra and Orchestre National de Montpellier.

Her most recent engagements include Donna Anna in Santiago de Chile; Antonia, Contessa and Amalia in Essen, the title role of Francesca da Rimini in Stuttgart, Luisa Miller, Donna Anna, Nedda and Contessa at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Antonia and Micaela at Bayerische Staatsoper, Mimi at the Dresden Semperoper as well as Liú and Nedda at Nationaltheater Mannheim.

In 2018 Olga Mykytenko makes her debut as Minnie in Puccini’s "Fanciulla del West" at the Estonian National theatre in Tallinn, led by José Cura. In 2019 she will return to Mannheim as Mimi and to Tallinn in the role of Marie in Korngolds opera „Die Tote Stadt“.

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