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On February 27 at 1pm ET (7pm Central European Time), Sonya Yoncheva will star within the Met Stars Live in Concert series in a recital at the stunning library of the Kloster Schussenried monastery. The concert will be video streamed live on https://metstarslive.brightcove-services.com/ .

Accompanied by Julien Quentin, Sonya will sing arias from Verdi’s Aida and Il trovatore, Dvořák’s Rusalka, Puccini’s La bohème, Le villi and Madama Butterfly, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Handel’s Rinaldo, Massenet’s Thaïs and Manon, Bizet’s Carmen and a song by Marguerite Monnot and Édith Piaf.

Founded in 1183 by Premonstratensian monks, the Bad Schussenried monastery in South Germany was step-by-step enlarged until the mid of the 18th century. The magnificent library where the recital will take place is considered one of Germany’s most important Rococo rooms.

Sonya Yoncheva and Sony Classical announce Rebirth, a new album recorded with Leonardo García Alarcón and his ensemble Cappella Mediterranea including music spanning more than five centuries, from folksong to pop, via some of the most powerful moments in seventeenth-century opera.

“This project is of great importance to me”, says Sonya. “I would like to highlight the timeless quality of this music, the sense of unlimited freedom that it offers us. It is an appeal for a rebirth, for the renewal our world so desperately needs.”

Rebirth was recorded in the concert hall of La Chaux-de-Fonds during the first European lockdown and is a message of hope, but also the exploration of an idea: that silence and inactivity are the best prelude to creative renewal.

You may pre-order the album from February 12, 2021 on the folllowing link: https://SonyaYoncheva.lnk.to/Rebirth

ARTE will show the gala Opera in Love, recorded at the Arena di Verona 2020 first online on Arte Concert starting February 7 at 5:00am CET and later, on Valentine’s Day at 5:40pm CET on television.

The event from the city of Love Verona features music by Puccini, Verdi and Gounod as well as re-enacted scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

Besides Sonya the other performers include Vittorio Grigolo, Mihaela Marcu and Davide Luciano. Plácido Domingo conducts the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona. For more information please click HERE.