Final – QSSC 2023

Six finalists will sing opera aries with The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, conducted by James Gaffigan. Hosted by Lise Davidsen.

H.M. Queen Sonja portrait
H.M. Queen Sonja
Lise Davidsen

Here is an overview of the program for the final concert at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet on Saturday, August 26th at 6:00 PM.


Claudio Monteverdi

L’orfeo – Toccata (fanfare for the entry of HM Queen Sonja)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Polonaise from Eugene Onegin (overture)

Lise Davidsen wishes welcome and presents the first two singers.

Photo: Per OIe Hagen

Navasard Hakobyan, baritone, Armenia (b. 1998)

Donizetti 

Lucia di Lammermoor

Cruda funesta smania (Enrico)

Photo: Per OIe Hagen

Nils Wanderer, countertenor, Germany (1993)

Benjamin

Written on Skin

This Says the Boy (The Boy)

Lise Davidsen presents the next two singers.

Photo: Per OIe Hagen

Jasmin White, contralto, USA (1993)

Handel

Semele

Awake Saturnia…Iris Hence Away (Juno)

Photo: Per OIe Hagen

Vladyslav Tlushch, baritone, Ukraine (1992)

Bellini

I puritani

Or dove fuggio io mai?…Ah per sempre (Riccardo)

Lise Davidsen presents the final two singers.

Photo: Per OIe Hagen

Rebecka Wallroth, mezzo-soprano, Sweden (1999)

Mozart

La clemenza di Tito

Parto, parto (Sesto)

Photo: Per OIe Hagen

Aksel Daveyan, baritone, Armenia (1995)

Tchaikovsky

Iolanta

Kto mozhet sravnit’sia (Robert)


INTERMISSION (approx. 18:50-19:15)


Claudio Monteverdi

L’orfeo – Toccata (fanfare for the entry of HM Queen Sonja)

Lise Davidsen presents the first two singers and their arias.

Jasmin White

Wagner

Das Rheingold

Weiche, Wotan! Weiche! (Erda)

Aksel Daveyan

Gounod

Faust

Avant de quitter ces lieux (Valentin)

Lise Davidsen presents the next two singers and their arias.

Rebecka Wallroth

Sibelius

Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte

Navasard Hakobyan

Tchaikovsky

Pique Dame

Ja vas lyublyu (Yeletsky)

Lise Davidsen presents the final two singers and their arias.

Nils Wanderer

Handel

Tolomeo

Stille amare (Tolomeo)

Vladyslav Tlushch

Thomas

Hamlet

Ò vin, dissipe la tristesse (Hamlet)


INTERMISSION (approx. 20:00-20:30)


Prize-giving ceremony.