It’s an all-Offenbach program from the Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts on the “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s a “Deutsche Welle Festival Concert”. You’ll hear the “Can-Can” and “Mosquito Dance” from “Orpheus in the Underworld” and arias from “The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein”. Also on the program the “Grand Concerto for Cello and Orchestra”.

Thursday February 6: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 2019-06)

Offenbach (An all-Offenbach program from Cologne)

Youth Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia; Sebastian Tewinkel, conductor; Bruno Philippe, cello

Grand Concerto for cello and orchestra (Military), Opus 24  

Raphaela Gromes, cello; Julian Riem, piano

Andante for cello and piano

West German Radio Orchestra; Enrico Delamboye, conductor

Olga Pudova, soprano; Julien Behr, tenor;

Mosquito Dance from Act Two of Orpheus in the Underworld

Ah! Quelle triste destinée (What a tragic fate) from Orpheus in the Underworld

Overture to The Rhine Nixies

Les Oiseaux dans la charmille (The Birds in the Arbor) from Tales of Hoffmann

Ce n'est qu'un rêve (It's only a dream) from The Beautiful Helen

Religious march from La Haine (Hate)

Ballade of Klein-Zack from Tales of Hoffmann

Belle Nuit, o nuit d'amour (Lovely Night, O Night of Love), Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffmann

Can Can from Orpheus in the Underworld

Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne; Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor; Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano

The Grand Dutchess of Gerolstein, overture 

Ah que j'aime le militaire (How I love the military) from Act One of The Grand Dutchess of Gerolstein

Mon dieux, mon dieux (My God, my God) from The Grand Dutchess of Gerolstein