The 50th Festival “Klaipėda Music Spring”
50 SPRINGS WITH MUSIC. SYMPHONIC APOCALYPSE
The Scent of 20th-Century Music: Some luxurious notes from the lives of great women
To mark the jubilee anniversaries of Maria Callas and Coco Chanel
2023 July 29
19:30
The Park Stage of the Klaipėda Concert Hall
Dovilė Kazonaitė (soprano)
Rūta Mikelaitytė-Kašubienė (piano)
Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Louis Guglielmi (Louiguy), Édouard Deransart, Pierre Bachelet, Henri Betti, Hubert Giraud, Norbert Glanzberg
We invite you to travel back in time to the world of women in the first half of the 20th century, the era of fashion goddesses and prima donnas. It was a world where opera star Maria Callas and fashion empire founder Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel shone brightest. These were creative, courageous, independent, fatalistic personalities, who were mesmerising but also dramatic. These personalities have inspired many of today’s female artists.
“Concert No. 5” is a performance of arias from classical operas and popular songs from the 20th century, which, lightly perfumed with Chanel No. 5, will immerse you in a whirlpool of style, beauty and culture. Let’s try to smell the luxury, feel the joy, experience the sadness and the drama, relish the authentic sound of an old gramophone record…