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On August 14, Sonya Yoncheva returns to the Salzburg Festival for a concert within the festival’s Canto Lirico series which will also feature the Cappella Mediterranea led by Leonardo García Alarcón.

For her Renaissance concert at the Haus für Mozart, Sonya will perform pieces by Stradella, Monteverdi, Cavalli, Caldara, Gibbons, Ruiz de Ribayaz, Marín, Purcell, Dowland and Díaz.

The concert will be telecast by Arte and will be online HERE on August 14 at 8:30pm Central European Time.

Sonya Yoncheva made her Salzburg Festival debut in a solo concert in 2017, singing music by Handel, Rameau and Purcell. In 2018, she starred in the title role of an acclaimed run of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the prestigious festival.

Sonya Yoncheva continues her little tour through Italy with a Gala Concert alongside Vittorio Grigolo and Daniel Oren conducting the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Verdi of Salerno. The concert is part of the open-air summer festival Un’estate da Re at the Reggia di Caserta, an 18th century royal residence, the world’s largest of its kind and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The programme includes music by Bizet, Donizetti, Puccini and Verdi, with Sonya performing the Habanera from Carmen, “Tacea la notte placida” from Il trovatore, “Un bel dì vedremo” from Madama Butterfly, the act one duet between Tosca and Cavaradossi from Tosca and the final scene of the first act of La bohème with Vittorio Grigolo.

Sonya sang her first complete opera after the lockdown last month at the Maggio Musicale of Florence as the title role of La traviata and subsequently starred in a Gala Concert celebrating Puccini in the composer’s home-town Lucca. Other appearances in Italy after this concert in Caserta include her return to the Arena di Verona in a gala concert dedicated to Love.

On July 26, Sonya Yoncheva will sing a Puccini open-air Gala Concert at the Piazza San Martino of Lucca with tenor Marco Ciaponi and Francesco Ivan Ciampa, who will conduct the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice. The concert marks the beginning of the approach path to 2024, the year of the Centennial of Maestro Puccini’s death.

The programme will include some of the most beautiful arias, duets and orchestra pieces of the Lucca-born composer, with Sonya starring in “Donde lieta uscì”, “Sì, mi chiamano Mimì” and “O soave fanciulla” from La Bohème, “In quelle trine morbide” and “Sola, perduta, abbandonata” from Manon Lescaut, “Se come voi piccina io fossi” from Le Villi, “Vissi d’arte” from Tosca and “Un bel dì vedremo” from Madama Butterfly.

Sonya Yoncheva has earned worldwide accolades for her dazzling interpretations of some of Puccini’s most iconic heroines, such as Tosca and Mimì in La Bohème. In the next couple of years, she will make her debuts in the title roles of Manon Lescaut and Madama Butterfly.