Sonya Yoncheva - Rebirth on CD

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With her new album " Rebirth" star soprano Sonya Yoncheva spans a wide range from Monteverdi's music to Dowland and Gibbons to folk songs from her Bulgarian homeland and a hit by Abba. In recent years, Sonya Yoncheva, celebrated worldwide for her fantastic voice, has thrilled with important roles such as Norma, Violetta in La Traviata", Elisabetta in " Don Carlos & #34; and Tosca at the most important opera houses in the world, such as the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal Opera House London, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Berlin State Opera and the Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan and the Paris Opéra. She is currently considered the best Violetta (Traviata), but her repertoire is wide. She actually started her singing career with baroque music, and she successfully returned to her Baroque, even early Baroque roots at the Salzburg Festival in 2018 with the Poppea from Monteverdi's masterpiece. In 2020, she had great success with a baroque programme that is the basis for her new album. On " Rebirth", their fourth solo album for Sony Classical, Sonya Yoncheva spans a wide, fascinating arc over several centuries - from some of the most immersive arias of the Italian opera of the 17th century, Baroque music from Spain and English songs by Dowland and Gibbons from that time to folk songs and music by Abba. Sonya Yoncheva confesses, " certain musical styles have remained surprisingly close to us in 500 years, combining their emotional radiance with great simplicity. I want to highlight this timeless quality, the feeling of unlimited freedom. It's like a call to rebirth, renewal that the world desperately needs." Programmatically leads & #34; Rebirth" from the beginning of the Italian opera with music by Monteverdi (from the " Poppea"), by Francesco Cavalli (from the opera " Xerse&#-; 34), Student Barbara Strozzi and his heir Alessandro Stradella to England - to John Dowland (" Come Again, Sweet Love 34;) and Orlando Gibbons (" The Silver Swan"), as well as English composer of Italian descent Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger, whose father brought Italian madrigal art to England. Also from Baroque 17th century Spain is heard on " Rebirth" rarely heard music - by Santiago de Murcia, by Thomás de Torrejon y Velazco and by José Marin. Yoncheva skillfully combines Baroque music with a Bulgarian folk song, an instrumental piece by the Spaniard Simon Díaz (1928-2014) and an aria from a modern Spanish opera (" El Prometeo" by Leonadro Garcia Alarcon, born 1976). For the end of the album, Yoncheva chose the Abba song " Like Angel Passing through my Room", which she finds thematically related to the motet " Hear Me, O God" by Alfonso Ferrabosco. Sonya Yoncheva will be accompanied on her successful musical journey through the centuries by the Mediterranean Cappella under the direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon.