David Hansen i Slottskapellet, – Oslo Kammermusikk Festival

Av Tomas Bagackas

David Hansen, etter en lang Il Germanico in Innsbruck. Klar til å synge Ernst Chausson, Ottorino Respighi og Samuel Barber i Slottskapellett i Oslo sammen med Broddsky Quartett, 18. August under Oslo Kammermusikk Festival. Foto Henning Høholt, 16.8.15..

OSLO/NORGE: Etter sin store suksess som Arminio i Nicola Porporas operas Il Germanico (from 1732) under Alte Musikk Festivalen i Innsbruck, hvor han sang siste forestilling søndag 16., er David Hansen nå tilbake i Oslo, og på plass sammen med Brodsky Quartetten i en eksklusiv konsert i Slottkapellet i Oslo, 18. August. med følgende

PROGRAM:

Forord om arkitekturen rundt musikken ved Professor Thomas Thiis-Evensen

Ernst Chausson (1855-1899): “Chanson perpetuelle” opus 37 (C. Cros)
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): “Il Tramonto” (P.B. Shelley)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): “Dover Beach” (M. Arnold)

David Hansen, kontratenor

Brodsky Quartet;

Ian Belton, fiolin
Daniel Rowland, fiolin
Paul Cassidy, bratsj
Jacqueline Thomas, cello

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Strykekvartett opus 130 B-Dur
Adagio, ma non troppo. Allegro
Presto
Andante con moto Alla danza Tedesca. Allegro Assai
Cavatina. Allegro molto espressivo
Allegro

Brodsky Quartet;
Ian Belton, fiolin
Daniel Rowland, fiolin
Paul Cassidy, bratsj
Jacqueline Thomas, cello

About: David Hansen:

David Hansen was born in Sydney, Australia
. He studied singing with Andrew Dalton at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and furthered his studies with James Bowman, David Harper and Graham Pushee.

In 2004, David made his European début for the Aix-en-Provence Festival in Purcell?s Dido and Aeneas. Shortly thereafter, he made his UK début in concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm, as well as performing the title-role in Handel?s Fernando with Il Complesso Barocco under Alan Curtis for the Spoleto Festival, Italy. He had last week (12-16th August 2015) big success in Tiroler Landesteater, Innsbruck by his performances of the role of Arminio in Nicola Porporas Opera from 1732. Il Germanico.

Other operatic engagements include Bertarido in Handel?s Rodelinda under Alan Curtis, the American premiere of Thomas Adès? The Tempest (Alan Gilbert/Santa Fe Opera), Handel?s Giulio Cesare (René Jacobs/Theater an der Wien; Rinaldo Alessandrini/Den Norske Opera; Andreas Spering/Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla; Richard Gill/Victorian Opera), Monteverdi?s L?Orfeo (Jacobs/Deutsche Staatsoper-Berlin), Handel?s Semele (Christophe Rousset/Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie), Nerone in Monteverdi?s L?incorinazione di Poppea (Antonio Florio/Teatro Calderón; Victorian Opera), the title-role in Hasse?s Piramo e Tisbe (Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci), the title-role in Bontempi?s Il Paride (Christina Pluhar/Innsbruck Festival of Early Music), Cherubino in Mozart?s Le nozze di Figaro (Teatro Verdi di Sassari) and Ottone in Vivaldi?s Griselda (Pinchgut Opera). He has worked with directors including Stefan Herheim, Jonathan Kent, Barrie Kosky and Christof Loy.  (Information from David Hansens homepage.)

– Review from Ile Germanico in Innsbruck will follow in Kulturkompasset.