Following on from her performances as Amneris at the Arena di Verona in August, Violeta Urmana‘s schedule for September is dominated by concert repertoire
. Before returning to the operatic stage by taking on the role of Eboli in Verdi’s  Don Carlo at the Vienna Staatsoper in October, she will give concerts in Bucharest, Brussels and Geneva featuring works by Schoenberg, Wagner and Mahler
. At the prestigious George Enescu Festival in Bucharest she will be Tove in Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder under the musical direction of Bertrand de Billy with vocal partners Nikolai Schukoff, John Daszak, Janina Baechle and Thomas Johannes Mayer.

Following on from Romania, she will give a recital with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to celebrate the EU Council presidency of her home country. The programme there features Wagner’sWesendonck Lieder, Sieglinde’s monologue from Act 1 of Die Walküre and Isolde’s “Liebestod”. The conductor is Modestas Pitrenas.

Finally, Violeta Urmana will sing Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder for the first time ever in the Victoria Hall in Geneva with Neeme Järvi conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Those concerts will include the mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina singing Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death.

Violeta Urmana will follow these excursions to concert podiums by more frequent appearances on the operatic stage throughout the autumn and winter months.

September 7, 2013: Arnold Schoenberg, Gurre-Lieder (George Enescu Festival, Bucharest)

September 12, 2013: concert with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels)

September 25 and 27, 2013: concert with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Victoria Hall, Geneva)