Sonya Yoncheva

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Il Pirata - Teatro Real de Madrid
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Gualtiero is an exiled count, forced to become a pirate. His enemy Ernesto blackmails Imogene into marrying him, even though he knows she loves Gualtiero. In the searing final scene Imogene goes insane when Gualtiero is condemned to death. This is riveting bel canto drama as you have seldom hear it.
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos
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For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Patrick Furrer leads a world-beating cast of opera’s leading lights in this March 26 performance, including tenor Matthew Polenzani in the title role, soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Élisabeth de Valois, and mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as Eboli. Bass Günther Groissböck and bass-baritone John Relyea are Philippe II and the Grand Inquisitor, and baritone Étienne Dupuis rounds out the all-star principal cast as Rodrigue. Verdi’s masterpiece receives a monumental new staging by David McVicar that marks his 11th Met production, placing him among the most prolific and popular directors in recent Met memory. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.
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Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona
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La serva padrona, or The Maid Turned Mistress, is a 1733 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. It is some 40 minutes long, in two parts without overture, and was written as light-hearted staged entertainment between the acts of Pergolesi's serious opera Il prigionier superbo. More specifically each of the two parts, set in the same dressing room, played during an intermission of the three-act opera to amuse people who remained in their seats.
La Bohème from the Royal Opera House
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Ever since its premiere in Turin in 1896, La bohème has been a huge hit with audiences across the world. Within two years, it had been seen in Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Prague, Berlin, Manchester and beyond. With over 500 performances chalked up at Covent Garden alone, this opera is one of the most popular and enduring in the repertoire. In this performance from 2020, Sonya Yoncheva stars as the doomed seamstress Mimì, with Charles Castronovo as Rodolfo, who falls in love with her at first sight. Simona Mihai and Andrzej Filonczyk perform the roles of the on-off lovers, Musetta and Marcello. Poverty and passion collide in a story of friendship and fellowship, love and loss. Featuring some of Puccini’s best-loved music, this performance is conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.
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Jonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023
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For the centenary of the Verona Opera Festival, Jonas Kaufmann gave a gala concert in the Arena on 20 August 2023. With colleagues Sonya Yoncheva and Ludovic Tézier, and accompanied by the Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona conducted by Jochen Rieder, he performed arias and duets from Tosca, Otello and Andrea Chenier, and evergreens by Franz Lehár and Leonard Bernstein as well as famous film songs such as 'Nella fantasia' (The Mission) and 'Nelle tue mani' (Gladiator).
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Fedora (Metropolitan Opera)
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Après l'assassinat de son fiancé à Saint-Pétersbourg, la princesse Fedora se rend à Paris pour y retrouver le comte Loris Ipanov, suspect numéro un. Il lui confesse son amour mais aussi son crime, qu'elle s'empresse de dénoncer aux autorités russes. Les sentiments de Fedora changent lorsqu'elle apprend le mobile légitime du crime de Loris, sauf que son aveu à la police a provoqué des événements aux conséquences irréversibles... Le drame exaltant d'Umberto Giordano, tiré de la pièce éponyme de Victorien Sardou de 1882, revient sur la scène du Met pour la première fois depuis 25 ans. La mise en scène sophistiquée révèle les cadres idylliques dans lesquels se déploie l'action : un palais de Saint-Pétersbourg, un salon parisien à la mode et une villa pittoresque suisse.
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Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
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One Roman emperor is not enough for conductor Emmanuelle Haïm. After Julius Caesar in Handel’s opera –recorded for Virgin Classics DVD at Paris’ Palais Garnier with Lawrence Zazzo as Giulio Cesare and Natalie Dessay as Cleopatra – she now brings a ruler of less illustrious reputation: Nero (Nerone) in Monteverdi’s sensuous and cruel story of love, ambition and politics, L’incoronazione di Poppea. Source: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8030376--monteverdi-lincoronazione-di-poppea
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Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House
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The priestess Norma loves Pollione, leader of the occupying force suppressing her people, and has borne two children by him. But Pollione’s love has withered, and he now loves Norma’s fellow priestess Adalgisa. Meanwhile, the people urgently look to Norma to lead their rebellion.
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Verdi: Otello
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Verdi: Otello

Oct 16, 2015
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. At the helm of this performance is riveting conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who brings out all the cascading emotions in Verdi’s turbulent score. Aleksandrs Antonenko is the Moor Otello, the triumphant general of the Venetian army who is ultimately brought down by the sly insinuations of his friend Iago (Željko Lučić). Sonya Yoncheva continues to win fans as Desdemona, Otello’s faithful and long-suffering wife. With Günther Groissböck as Lodovico and Dimitri Pittas as Cassio.
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The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann
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The great storyteller Hoffmann is losing himself to drink. His rival in love, Councillor Lindorf, claims that Hoffmann knows nothing of the heart, and so goads Hoffmann into telling the tales of his three great loves – each destroyed by a villain who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lindorf… First Hoffmann tells of his infatuation for the mechanical doll, Olympia – who is destroyed by the inventor Coppélius. Next comes the courtesan Giulietta, who throws over his adoration in favour of jewels from the magician Dappertutto. Finally, the gentle Antonia is forced to sing to her death by the wicked Doctor Miracle. His stories finished, Hoffmann rouses from his drunken stupor to find Lindorf has made off with Stella, Hoffmann’s latest love – but the Muse compels him to transform his heartache into art.
The ROH Live: Carmen
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The ROH Live: Carmen

Nov 14, 2015
The young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and high-spirited Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be with her. Carmen grows tired of Don José and falls in love with the toreador Escamillo. Unable to bear her leaving him, Don José tracks Carmen down to a bullring where Escamillo is fighting and murders her.
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Bellini: Norma
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Bellini: Norma

Sep 26, 2016
The priestess Norma loves Pollione, leader of the occupying force suppressing her people, and has borne two children by him. But Pollione’s love has withered, and he now loves Norma’s fellow priestess Adalgisa. Meanwhile, the people urgently look to Norma to lead their rebellion. Norma discovers the love between Pollione and Adalgisa. Furiously she gives the signal for war. Pollione is captured, attempting to steal away with Adalgisa. Norma, called upon to announce a sacrificial victim to consecrate the uprising, declares it shall be a guilty priestess: herself.
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Don Carlos
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Don Carlos

Oct 19, 2017
L’infant Don Carlo et Elisabeth de Valois d’abord promis l’un à l’autre voient leur amour devenir impossible à la suite d’un nouveau projet de mariage de la jeune fille avec Philippe II, le propre père de l’infant. Don Carlo, désespéré par cette nouvelle alliance politique qui fait de son aimée, sa belle-mère, se confie à son ami, le marquis de Posa. Philippe II dont la jalousie est attisée par la vindicative Princesse Eboli, commence à nourrir des soupçons à l’égard de son épouse et de son fils, qui l’affronte violemment en plaidant la cause des Flamands persécutés par l’Inquisition. Le loyal Posa prend parti pour Philippe II à la stupéfaction générale. Mais la terrible machine de l’Inquisition est en marche : Posa y perdra la vie et Don Carlo, menacé à son tour, disparaîtra mystérieusement entraîné par le spectre du grand Charles Quint.
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
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La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a favorite of generations of operagoers. In his approach to this classic drama, director Willy Decker sets the action on a nearly bare stage, focusing the audience’s full attention on the three main characters. As Violetta, the ailing courtesan desperate to escape her past, soprano Sonya Yoncheva offers a fearless and sympathetic performance from beginning to end. American tenor Michael Fabiano sings with ardent longing as her devoted lover Alfredo, delivering emotionally wrought phrases and ringing top notes. Thomas Hampson brings a burnished baritone to Germont, Alfredo’s protective father whose stern demands spell disaster for the young couple. On the podium, maestro Nicola Luisotti leads an electric performance of Verdi’s unforgettable score.
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Puccini: La bohème
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Puccini: La bohème

Feb 24, 2018
Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its 1896 world premiere. It has also proved incredibly popular with the Met’s global HD audiences and has been featured in three live high-definition transmissions since 2008. The most recent, presented during the 2017–18 season, includes a cast of celebrated young artists. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the fragile seamstress Mimì, who instantly falls in love with the passionate poet Rodolfo, sung by tenor Michael Fabiano. Soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone Lucas Meachem trade both spars and kisses as the on-again-off-again lovers Musetta and Marcello, with bass Matthew Rose and baritone Alexey Lavrov rounding out the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends. Maestro Marco Armiliato takes the podium to lead Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque staging.
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea
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An early baroque masterpiece, Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea was inspired by The Annals by Tacitus and celebrates the love of the emperor Nero and the courtesan Poppea. Filmed at the 2008 Glyndebourne Festival, Robert Carsen’s production brings together Danielle de Niese, Alice Coote and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm.
Don Giovanni - Monte Carlo
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The Monte Carlo Opera presents Mozart's legendary Don Giovanni, with a libretto of Lorenzo Da Ponte, in a performance conducted by Paolo Arrivabeni and staged by Jean-Louis Grinda.
Tosca [The Metropolitan Opera]
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La nouvelle mise en scène audacieuse de Sir David McVicar de Tosca, le thriller lyrique de Puccini sur la Rome napoléonienne, a enthousiasmé le public du Met en 2018. Dans cette retransmission en live HD, la soprano bulgare Sonya Yoncheva incarne la diva éponyme passionnée, face au ténor charismatique Vittorio Grigolo dans le rôle de son amant, le peintre idéaliste Mario Cavaradossi. Le baryton Željko Lučić incarne le menaçant baron Scarpia, le chef de la police qui emploie des tactiques brutales pour piéger à la fois les criminels et ses conquêtes sexuelles. Sur le podium, Emmanuel Villaume dirige la partition électrisante, qui présente certaines des mélodies les plus mémorables de Puccini.
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The 350th Anniversary Inaugural Gala
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The year 2019 marks the 350th year of existence of the Opéra de Paris, and the Opéra national is staging two exceptional shows at the Palais Garnier in the form of an inaugural gala. Under the direction of Dan Ettinger, the principal dancers, soloists, corps de ballet and orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris will perform extracts from famous ballets as well as some of the most popular opera arias. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, tenor Bryan Hymel and baritone Ludovic Tézier are among the headliners. A magical experience!
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea
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A ruthless dictator falls in love with a sexy woman. Together, they get rid of every obstacle in their way: his wife, her former lover, and also the voice of reason. Everything is sacrificed to passion, in this tale where evil triumphs, virtue and reason are humiliated, and nothing corresponds to our moral principles. Jan Lauwers, the director and choreographer, sets L'incoronazione di Poppea in a way congenial to his means: a visual artist, he translated the emotions expressed by Monteverdi’s music into dancing and visual images. The result was mixed; the general impression was one of many ideas, seemingly not fully developed or analysed. The stage was constantly cluttered with moving bodies, or tableau vivants, leaving a sense of confusion, and distracting from the music.
Puccini: La bohème
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Puccini: La bohème

Jan 29, 2020
Richard Jones’ “La bohème” is an important weapon in the Royal Opera’s commercial arsenal. This is its second revival since Jones’ production hit the stage in autumn 2017, replacing John Copley’s beloved 40-year old staging, resplendent with period detail and resolutely naturalist. Jones brings a considerable break with the past in his approach, pointing the way towards thought-provoking possibilities for the work, though it is a clearly a show that defers to the need for regular revival and breadth of appeal.
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Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
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In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from their homes all around the world.
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Luisa Miller [The Metropolitan Opera]
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Créée juste avant les chefs-d'œuvre durables Rigoletto, Il Trovatore et La Traviata, Luisa Miller incorpore la vitalité juvénile qui avait fait de Verdi une sensation internationale tout en attendant avec impatience la discipline dramaturgique et la sophistication de ces œuvres ultérieures. Dans ce spectacle Live in HD, la soprano Sonya Yoncheva endosse le rôle titre captivant, clôturant une saison au cours de laquelle elle a joué dans trois transmissions cinématographiques. En tant que père, Miller, le légendaire Plácido Domingo ajoute un autre rôle de baryton à son vaste répertoire. Le ténor Piotr Beczała dans le rôle de Rodolfo, Alexander Vinogradov dans le rôle du comte Walter et Dmitry Belosselskiy dans le rôle de Wurm complètent l'illustre casting, sous la direction de Bertrand de Billy.
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / The Nutcracker
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To bring together again, for the first time since their premiere on a December evening in Moscow, Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta and ballet The Nutcracker, was the audacious challenge that Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov accepted for the Palais Garnier in Paris in March 2016 : a revolutionary production, which was to become one of the key events of the Paris Opera season.
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