Programme:
Vincenzo Bellini:
Overture to I Capuleti e i Montecchi
“O di Capellio, generosi amici… È serbato a questo acciaro… L’amo tanto, e m’è sì cara”, Tybalt’s aria from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Gaetano Donizetti:
“Inosservato penetrava… Angelo casto e bel”,  Marcello’s aria from Il duca d’Alba
“Ed ancor la tremenda porta… Come uno spirito angelico… Bagnato il sen di lagrime”, Roberto’s aria from Roberto Devereux
Gioachino Rossini:
Overture to William Tell
“Che sorda al mesto piano… Ah! Come nascondere”, Oreste’s aria from Ermione
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Charles Gounod: “Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! demeure chaste et pure”, Faust’s aria from Faust
Jules Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
Jacques Offenbach: “Au mont Ida”, Paris’s aria from La Belle Hélene
Giuseppe Verdi:
Overture to I Vespri Siciliani
“Ah sì, ch’io senta ancora, ch’io respiri… Dal più remoto esilio… Odio solo, ed odio atroce” Jacopo’s aria from I due Foscari
Overture to La traviata
“Oh! fede negar potessi… Quando le sere al placido… L’ara, o l’avello”, Rodolfo’s aria from Luisa Miller

Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez return to Ljubljana two years after their last appearance, at the 70th edition of the Ljubljana Festival, where they received standing ovations for their performance with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. Since making his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 1996, Juan Diego Flórez has performed at all the major opera houses in Milan, Berlin, Salzburg, New York, Vienna and Zurich. Oksana Lyniv is the founder of the international classical music festival LvivMozArt. In 2021 she became the first female conductor to conduct at the Bayreuth Festival. This year’s concert in the Gallus Hall will consist of some of the most famous romantic arias of the 19th century, showcasing the tenor voice, along with some popular instrumental excerpts. The greater part of the programme will draw on the Italian repertoire of operatic giants such as Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi, while the introduction to the second half will feature some of the most eminent French opera composers, including Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet and Jacques Offenbach.

• in 2009 he was nominated for a Grammy Award for his album Bel Canto Spectacular
• in 2011 he founded Sinfonía por el Perú, a social inclusion project that aims to improve, through music, the artistic and personal development of children and young people from vulnerable environments in his home country; the organisation is currently helping more than 7,000 children
• following his appearance at the 72nd Ljubljana Festival, the tenor will give a recital with a similar programme at the Salzburg Festival
• upon her appointment as music director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2022, Oksana Lyniv became the first female conductor to be named music director of an Italian opera hous
• the 2023–24 season has seen her make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot;  she has also debuted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra