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Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Gustav Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Kaija Saariaho: Asteroid 4179: Toutatis
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30
The opening concert of the Turku Music Festival in 2019 will continue the festival’s tradition of featuring distinguished international opera singers, with German soprano Dorothea Röschmann and British tenor Ian Bostridge taking the stage with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Klaus Mäkelä. Mäkelä is also the festival’s new artistic director.
The length of the concert is approx. 2,5 h.