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ARIAS - EXSULTATE JUBILATE
Don Giovanni: "Or sai chi l'onore"; "Crudele? Ah, no mio bene!"; "In quail eccessi…Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata"; Le Nozze di Figaro: "Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro"; "E Susanna non vien!" - "Dove sono"; Die Zauberflöte: "Ach, ich fühl's"; Die Entführung aus dem Serail: "Ach ich liebte, war so glücklich!"; "Welcher Wechsel herrscht in meiner Seele…Traurigkeit ward mir zum Lose"; "Martern aller Arten"; "Vorrei spiegarvi, O Dio" (Concert Aria), K. 418; Exsultate, jubilate, Motet, K. 165 (158a).

Olga Makarina, soprano;Orchestra of the Mikhailovsky M. Mussorgsky Opera and Ballet Theater; Andrei Anikhanov, conductor.
Born in Archangel, Russia, Metropolitan Opera soprano Olga Makarina, made her first New York appearances at New York City Opera as Lucia di Lammermoor and has performed there as Gilda in Rigoletto, Konstanze in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Other roles in Ms. Makarina's repertoire include Ilia in Idomeneo (Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival), Violetta in La Traviata (Kirov Opera) and Eudoxie in La Juive (Opera Orchestra of New York). Ms. Makarina has also appeared as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Minnesota Orchestra and in Orff's Carmina Burana as well. Her repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera during recent seasons has included Gilda, Violetta and Lucia. She also performed concerts and solo recitals in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan and debuted at the National Theater, Prague as Donna Anna and sang the opening night gala of the Cesky Krumlov Festival with the Brno Philharmonic that was televised in Eurovision. In recent seasons Olga Makarina added to her repertory the roles of Desdemona in Verdi's Otello with the National Symphony of Mexico, at the Macau Festival in the production from Covent Garden and with the Beijing Philharmonic, Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall and Micaela in Carmen with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Her 2001-02 season included her house debut at the Metropolitan in Ravel's L'Enfant et Les Sortileges, the title role of Norma with Palm Beach Opera, Violetta in La Traviata in Mexico, Gilda in Rigoletto in La Palmas and an all Bellini Concert at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona. She began her 2002-03 season singing Imogene in the new production of Il Pirata at the Met to glowing critical and public acclaim.

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BOHUSLAV MARTINU (1890 – 1959): The Madrigals for violin and viola (1947
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791): Duo in B flat major for Violin and Viola KV 424
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921 – 1992): “Otono Porteño” and “Invierno Porteño” - Tango (winter and fall in Buenos Aires) 1965 – 1979 (arr. by C.F. Langheim)

The “String Duo”:
Hagit Halaf, violin; Christoph Emmanuel Langheim, viola
The String-Duo violin and viola Halaf-Langheim, duo of a married couple was founded in 2001 in Vienna and was brought to European attention by the conductor Christopher Hogwood. Their concerts brought them already to Austria, Germany, England, Italy, Israel, Holland and the United States, to the prestigious halls as there are the AUDITORIUM DI MILANO, the CARNEGIE HALL WEILL RECITAL HALL and Radio transmissions in RAI Radio3 and various broadcasting systems in Israel. Currently they co-operate with the orchestras of La Scala, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI (Italian Broadcasting Corporation) and the Symphonica Toscanini (Lorin Maazel). Langheim was the principal viola of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano G. Verdi chosen by the conductor Riccardo Chailly, where he was presented in many radio transmissions also as soloist. Lately he co-operated as principal viola with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Halaf was for a long period the violinist of the Timna Brauer & Eli Meiri Ensemble - a Jewish vocal music ensemble – and has toured and performed in this context in many concert halls, TV and radio stations throughout Europe. As soloist she gave her debut with the European Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris.