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On December 7, Sonya Yoncheva will return to the Teatro alla Scala to take part in this year’s exceptional Season Inauguration Gala of the famed opera house which will feature many of the world’s top opera singers and ballet dancers.

The evening will be conducted by Riccardo Chailly (opera part) and Michele Gamba (ballet part) and will be broadcast on the TV, radio and internet from 5pm Central European Time. More details will follow soon.

To see the list of all the artists participating please click HERE.

Due to a bronchitis, Sonya Yoncheva is sadly forced to cancel her participation in the new production of Wagner’s Lohengrin, staged by Calixto Bieito and conducted by Matthias Pintscher at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden of Berlin, in which she was supposed to make her role debut as Elsa von Brabant. The soprano has been struggling with the illness for two weeks and was advised by her doctors to wait at least another week from now before singing again. “I was so much looking forward to returning to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and to making my Wagnerian debut”, says Sonya Yoncheva. “The production will premiere on December 13 as TV broadcast and stream and sadly it just won’t be possible to debut a long role like Elsa with only a week of rehearsals. I therefore have to cancel my participation in the premiere with a very heavy heart.” Sonya Yoncheva and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden are planning to make this role debut possible later during this season. Dates of the production with Sonya Yoncheva as Elsa will be announced as soon as possible.

Sonya Yoncheva’s Met Stars Live in Concert recital had to be postponed to February 27 at 1pm ET (7pm Central European Time), as Sonya is ill (with a non-Covid illness). It will take place at the stunning library of the Kloster Schussenried monastery and will be video streamed live on https://metstarslive.brightcove-services.com/ .

Accompanied by Malcolm Martineau, Sonya will sing arias from Verdi’s Aida and Il trovatore, Dvorák’s Rusalka, Puccini’s La bohème, Le villi and Madama Butterfly, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Handel’s Rinaldo, Bellini’s Il pirata, Bizet’s Carmen and a song by Marguerite Monnot and Édith Piaf.

Founded in 1183 by Premonstratensian monks, the monastery close to Ulm in the South of Germany was step-by-step enlarged until the mid of the 18th century. Particularly notable is the magnificent library, which is considered one of the most important Rococo rooms in South Germany.