Monthly Highlights

On three Thursday nights in September, Stingray Classica viewers will be swept off their feet by beautiful ballet premieres of exquisite European ensembles. On Thursday the 12th, the Ballet of Monte Carlo enchants with Le Songe, a dreamy and humorous ballet by choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot, based on Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The following week, the Victor Ullate Ballet-Comunidad de Madrid turns a more serious page with the dramatic El Amor Brujo, a choreography by founder Victor Ullate. With beautiful visuals and colours blending in with music by the likes Fauré, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, the Paris Opera ballet rounds off a series of stunning premieres with George Balanchine's Jewels on the 26th of September.

The oeuvre of legendary Austrian-born composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart includes over twenty world-famous operas. Today, they are all considered classics and are omnipresent in opera houses worldwide. Throughout September, Stingray Classica presents three of the composer’s most popular works: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782), Così fan tutte (1790), and the comic masterpiece Le nozze di Figaro (1786). The latter two were created in a collaboration between Mozart and the Italian librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and are considered to be two of Mozart’s best Italian operas. Enjoy these three beautiful works on Sunday the 8th, 15th, and 22nd of September and experience stunning stagings and magnificent performances from the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Belgium, the Opera de Lyon in France, and Spain’s Teatro Real in Madrid.

Every Friday throughout September, Stingray Classica invites you on a journey through the enchanting soundscape of Russian opera. Moscow-born conductor and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev conducts stunning interpretations of Sergei Prokofiev’s The Gambler, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa from the historic Mariinsky Theater. Taking Russian compositions abroad, American conductor Kent Nagano leads the Orchestre de Paris and the Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre in a performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Prince Igor at the Théatre Musical de Paris. Enjoy impressive interpretations featuring soloists like Vladimir Galuzin, Nikolai Gassiev, Albert Schagidullin, Galina Gorchakova, Sergei Aleksashkin and many more!