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The schedule is now updated with all the performances confirmed for the 2017/2018 season. Check it out! *La Boheme  at Teatro Real Madrid on December 11, 14, 17, 19, 23, 26, 29; January 2, 4, 7 – 2017 *Faust at the Vienna State Opera on January 25, 28; February 2 – 2018 *La Boheme at the Vienna State Opera …

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Faust at Vienna State Opera opens on March 18. Simone Young conducts a great cast. Jean-Francois Borras is Faust, Luca Pisaroni is Méphistophélès, Orhan Yildiz is Valentin and Anita Hartig is Marguerite. The production goes on stage again on March 21 and 25. Synopsis Act 1 Disconsolate and plagued by premonitions of death, the ageing Faust curses everything he once held …

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Anita Hartig Society is an association I founded recently. It is the first step towards my big dream of helping young talents. Every day I hear of amazingly talented children playing various instruments, giving recitals and winning competitions. I also know that every one of them needs someone offering moral and financial support. Children of …

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Turandot at Vienna State Opera opens on February 28. There are two more performances to follow on March 3 and 8. Paolo Carignani conducts this Puccini masterpiece, Elena Pankratova is Turandot, Stefano la Colla is Calaf, Ryan Speedo Green is Timur and Heinz Zednik is Altoum. Wishing everyone a successful run! Synopsis The mandarin proclaims the …

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La Boheme at Staatsoper Berlin opens on February 11 The encounter of the penniless poet and journalist Rodolfo with the tubercular Mimí develops into a tragically ending love story, contrasted by the picturesque and detailed description of the Parisian subculture with its boisterous lust for parties, extravagance and promiscuous lifestyle. Especially in the framing love …

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La Boheme the other night at the Bucharest National Opera was a great success. Thanks to the great audience welcoming me. Thanks to the colleagues, Teodor Ilincai (Rodolfo), Adriana Marcu (Musetta), Adrian Marcan (Marcello), Csaba Sandor (Schaunard), Marius Boloș (Colline) and Mihnea Lamatic (Benoît). And thanks to the conductor for the support throughout the performance! …

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Anita Hartig returns to Bucharest for a special event. She will be Mimi in La Boheme on January 27, performing alongside tenor Teodor Ilincai, Adriana Marcu (Musetta), Adrian Marcan (Marcello), Csaba Sandor (Schaunard), Marius Boloș (Colline) and Mihnea Lamatic (Benoît) The tickets are available on the website of the opera house.  

The National Bucharest Opera House lit up on Thursday evening for its 95th anniversary. The gala featured famous arias performed by prestigious Romanian lyric artists and which ended with a fireworks show in front of the Opera building. The special guest of the anniversary gala was soprano Anita Hartig, back to Bucharest after a long …

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Anita Hartig, together with tenor Teodor Ilincai, performed in a Christmas Concert at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest. The concert was organised by the City Hall. Tiberiu Soare conducted The National Youth Orchestra. Enjoy photos from the event in the Gallery section.

“O sole nostro”, the charity Gala Concert that will take place at Musikverein in Vienna on November 2, supports the St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung – Children’s Cancer Research Institute and START – The scholarship program for pupils with a migration background . It is such a wonderful initiative and I am honored to take part in …

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To be given another chance, to be young again, to abandon oneself to pleasure once more! That is Faust’s greatest wish. The devil appears to him and promises to give him all of this on the condition that Faust leave him his soul. The pact is made, and Faust launches into a passionate affair with …

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“Le Concert des Etoiles”, a tribute to the great Luciano Pavarotti, recorded earlier this year in Monte Carlo, will be broadcast by France 3 on September 9 starting 8:55pm. Andrea Bocelli, Joseph Calleja, Anita Hartig, Olga Peretyatko, Jean-François Borras, Pumeza Matshikiza joined in this Gala to honor the memory of one of the greatest tenors of all times.

Anita Hartig makes her role debut as Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust at Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse on June 22. Joining her on stage, tenor Teodor Ilincai and bass-baritone Alex Esposito. Claus Peter Flor conducts Orchestre national du Capitole. More info on cast, performances and tickets, on the official website of the opera house.

One of the most represented on the stages of the world, Faust is one of the great operas of French Romanticism. Gounod, trying to stay true to the model of Goethe, depicts with tenderness one of the most significant episodes of the myth, the meeting between Faust and Marguerite. The good and evil , the heaven and earth, meet here, …

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In his last, unfinished opera, Giacomo Puccini once again takes up the theme of love and death. On the one hand, Turandot, for whose love men have to die, on the other Liù, who dies for love, and between them Calaf, who solves the riddle and overcomes Turandot. Influenced by his own personal experiences, Puccini …

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Classical Action’s 2015-2016 Michael Palm Series The events begin with wine and hors d’oeuvres at 6:30 pm. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm. Saturday, February 27, 2016 Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone Anita Hartig, soprano Matthew Polenzani, tenor with Howard Watkins, piano Founded in 1993, Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS draws upon the talents, …

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