From Opera to Broadway

Karidion Brass takes the audience on a journey through two centuries of stage music with their concert programme "From Opera to Broadway".

The first half opens with the grand overture from Georg Friedrich Handel's Baroque opera "Rinaldo", followed by two arias by Antonín Dvořák and Ludwig van Beethoven - in which each of the five musicians takes a turn as operatic soloist. The interval is preceded by excerpts from Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" and the famous drinking song from Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata".

The second half begins with Ralph Benatzky's "White Horse Inn", continues with music from "My Fair Lady" and the Yiddish musical "Men ken lebn nor men lost nisht", and closes with Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" in an arrangement by Ingo Luis.