Big names for Merseyside opera season

Published: 9 August 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Ekaterina Lekhina Credit: Emil Matveev

The stars of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia are heading to Liverpool this autumn for a new opera performance series at St George’s Hall.

The Liverpool Opera—Four Seasons makes its debut at the venue on October 1 with a concert headlined by Grammy-winning Russian soprano Ekaterina Lekhina to launch the programme.

The performance will take place in the Concert Room and the programme will include works by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and Donizetti.

Lekhina will be joined by special guest Barbara Ruzsics, who lives in Liverpool and graduated at the Liszt Academy of Music and student of soprano star Eva Marton, and David Walters who is Liverpool Hope University’s accompanist and piano tutor.

The concert series is presented by GuliAnd Management and features the stars of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia, the world opera competition, with four opera singers performing during each season.

Domingo is celebrated globally as one of the Three Tenors, the trio who performed together throughout the 1990s and early 2000s which also included fellow Spaniard José Carreras and Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti.

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