SUMMER ARIA is an
unique open-air music theatre festival of summer capital. Performances
start an hour and a half before midnight inPärnuOld City Yard. The atmosphere of the nights is spell-bounding.
The mixture of well-known opera airs, surprising andinnovative sounds from contemporary
composers,sounds of nature and excellent
acousticswith the illumination of the location makes the
experience ofmystical
wholeunforgettable.
SUMMER ARIAis special for everyone
who seeks inspiring artistic enjoyment.Artistic Director Andrus Kallastu
Programme
Su 10.7.2011
at 22.30CONSPIRACY SCENES FROM QUALITY
OPERAS. Installation-opera series CATALOGUE. Music by Strauss, Verdi, Wagner
Tu 12.7.2011
at 22.30CONSPIRACY SCENES FROM
QUALITY OPERAS. Installation-opera series CATALOGUE. Music by Strauss,
Verdi, Wagner
Thu
14.7.2011 at 22.30CONSPIRACY SCENES
FROM QUALITY OPERAS. Installation-opera series CATALOGUE. Music by Strauss,
Verdi, Wagner
Fr 15.7.2011 at 22.30 BACH IN PÄRNU.Andrus Kallastu recommends
Sa 16.7.2011
at 22.30 SUMMER ARIAS: Kai Kallastu (soprano), Andrus Kallastu (piano)
Su 17.7.2011
at 22.30 WOMAN?! Music theatre performance. Music byKallastu, Lock, Uduman
Tu 19.7.2011
at 22.30 WOMAN?! Music theatre performance. Music byKallastu, Lock, Uduman
Thu
21.7.2011 at 22.30 WOMAN?! Music theatre performance. Music byKallastu, Lock, Uduman
Fr 22.7.2011 at 22.30 BACH IN PÄRNU.Andrus Kallastu recommends
Sa 23.7.2011
at 22.30 SUMMER ARIAS: Kai Kallastu (soprano), Andrus Kallastu (piano)
Su 24.7.2011
at 22.30Concert-cinema A PAN AND
A GIRL
Tu 26.7.2011
at 22.30Concert-cinema A PAN AND
A GIRL
Thu
28.7.2011 at 22.30Concert-cinema
A PAN AND A GIRL
Fr 29.7.2011 at 22.30 BACH IN PÄRNU.Andrus Kallastu recommends
Sa 30.7.2011
at 22.30 SUMMER ARIAS: Kai Kallastu (soprano), Andrus Kallastu (piano)
Su 31.7.2011
at 22.30PRAYER SCENES FROM QUALITY
OPERAS. Installation-opera series CATALOGUE. Music by Bellini, Donizetti,
Verdi
Tu 2.8.2011
at 22.30PRAYER SCENES FROM
QUALITY OPERAS. Installation-opera series CATALOGUE. Music by Bellini,
Donizetti, Verdi
Thu 4.8.2011 at 22.30PRAYER SCENES FROM QUALITY OPERAS. Installation-opera
series CATALOGUE. Music by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi
Fr 5.8.2011 at 22.30 BACH IN PÄRNU.Andrus Kallastu recommends
Sa 6.8.2011 at 22.30SUMMER ARIAS: Kai Kallastu (soprano), Andrus Kallastu
(piano)
Su 7.8.2011
at 22.30MAD SCENES FROM QUALITY
OPERAS Vol.2. Installation-opera series CATALOGUE. Music by Bellini, Thomas
Tu 9.8.2011
at 22.30MAD SCENES FROM QUALITY
OPERAS Vol.2. Installation-opera series CATALOGUE. Music by Bellini, Thomas
Thu 11.8.2011 at 22.30MAD SCENES FROM QUALITY OPERAS Vol.1.
Installation-opera series CATALOGUE. Music by Bellini, Donizetti
Fr 12.8.2011 at 22.30 BACH IN PÄRNU.Andrus Kallastu recommends
Sa 13.8.2011 at 22.30MAD SCENES FROM QUALITY OPERAS Vol.1. Installation-opera
series CATALOGUE. Music by Bellini, Donizetti
NB!
Alterations possible
Tickets 15 EUR (no card payment, cash
only), sale half hour before the performance.
SUMMER ARIA passes
30 EUR are personaland non-transferable,from advance sale in internetwww.piletimaailm.com and www.piletilevi.eeand at the outlets ofPiletimaailm
and Piletileviall over Estonia. SUMMER ARIA pass guarantees you entrance to all
performances of SUMMER ARIA 2011.
Travel
organizers, please contact us by e-mail ooper@parnu.ee,discounts for groups (minimum group
size 10).
In Estonia the summer evenings may be
cool and damp.We suggest to take along warm clothes and
rain protections.
In
collaboration with Pärnu Old City Basic School(Pärnu
Vanalinna Põhikool)
Supporters: Pärnu City, Estonian Culture Capital
Partners:Klassikaraadio,Turundustugi,Turismiweb, EestiTursim.ee, ViroWeb,Tervise Paradiis Spa Hotel & Water Park,Strand SPA & Conference Hotel,Matkavekka, Villa Wesset, Hotel
Legend
WOMAN?! Music theatre performance
„Woman?!“ is a performance
that through two monodramas studies the function of a woman in a society
ruled by men, specifically the more extreme manifestations of this
function. The myth of Cassandra is a colourful example of a woman falling
down the society ladder and losing her personality. The daughter of Trojan
king Priamos is loved by Apollon, but becomes Agamemnon’s war trophy, an
immigrant against her own will, who has to predict misery and disaster to
deaf ears and is finally murdered. Jesus’s mother Maria, when suffering on
Golgotha mountain, comes to realise that her son’s cruel death on the cross
was inevitable and a source of paradisal happiness for herself. Kai
Kallastu (soprano)
A PAN AND A GIRL. Concert-cinema
Can music be seen? Can art
be heard? Closing your eyes, you can see colours mingling, sadness on
somebody’s face, the beauty and pain of nature, dreamlike occasions...
Looking at a painting of nature, you may hear a dreamy sound of a flute, a
bow stroke orpizzicato– and they all flash in front of your
eyes like raindrops... Concert-cinema A PAN AND A GIRL unites concert and
film into one organic entirety. On the movie screen you see a fantasy film
of a wandering Pan and of a girl who emerges like spring. Music interacts
with the picture through works of Estonian, Finnish, Russian, French and
Japanese composers that are performed, seasoned by playful improvisations,
by Leonora Palu (flutes) and Indrek Palu (violin, electric violin,
live-electronics). The film is scripted, directed and shot by Tõnis Liivamägi
and designed by Gabriela Liivamägi.
CONSPIRACY SCENES FROM QUALITY OPERAS. Installation-opera series
CATALOGUE
Opera history knows a lot
of conspiracy scenes, in the course of which heroes and heroines CONSPIRACY
to eliminate a slaughterous ruler, murder a leading character or commit
some other crime for the sake of their happiness.
Kai Kallastu (soprano) and
Atlan Karp (baritone)
PRAYER SCENES FROM QUALITY OPERAS. Installation-opera series CATALOGUE
When human resources for
solving a difficult situation become exhausted, one is left with nothing
else than god and a prayer. The strength of a prayer is strong and one can
pray for anything: for a bloody war to end, for convalescence of beloved
one or for god to grace a planned enterprise. When opera has a happy end,
the prayer has worked. But principally the prayer in an opera is only an
affirmation of a hopeless situation – gods may have mercy, but people won’t.
Kai Kallastu (soprano).
MAD SCENES FROM QUALITY OPERAS VOL I & II. Installation-opera series
CATALOGUE
Scenes, in the course of
which a leading character or some other singer loses his mind, where a
natural part of opera since its birth, but in 19th century Italian and
French opera scenes like that attained particular popularity. These scenes
where written for top singers and their hidden purpose was to demonstrate
the singer’s singing and acting capabilities to their full extent.
Therefore the vocal scores of mad scenes, in comparison with other musical
numbers, have much bigger and more exciting goals – big skips, complicated
passages, extremely long phrases, quick changes in dynamics and abrupt
variations of character are all quite customary. Performances I and II are
connected through a story of a tragic fate of a woman – the feelings of innocent
women caught in the cogwheels of money, power and lust.
Kai Kallastu (soprano)
BACH IN PÄRNU. Andrus Kallastu recommends
The music of Johann
Sebastian Bach, played on an accompanying instrument of gladiatorial
combat, the organ, graces balmy summer night in Pärnu. Andrus
Kallastu (digital organ)
SUMMER ARIAS. Arias from
operas
The sweetness of a summer night is illuminated by
arias from well-known operas, performed by Kai Kallastu (soprano) and
Andrus Kallastu (digital piano)
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Founded on January 5, 1993,Pärnu Operahas offered quality music and intriguing
theatre solutions for almost two decades.
In addition to the standard repertoire
of opera history, Pärnu Opera presents mystery-like ecclesiastic
compositions, contemporary opera, performances, multimedia performances,
dramatized concerts and experimental musical theatre.
The nucleus of Pärnu Opera,
international Repoo Ensemble, consisting of composers, musicians, writers,
visual artists, actors and other creative personages, aims to realise the
conception of original repoo-opera.
The artistic director of Pärnu Opera is composer and conductor
Andrus Kallastu.
