Omer Meir Wellber conducts works by Mozart and Ramírez at the Palau de les Arts Christmas Concert
20.12.2011
Valencia (20-12-11).- Omer Meir Wellber, principal conductor of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, will conduct the Christmas Concert at the Palau de les Arts Auditori this coming Thursday, December 22nd, at 8:00 pm. The program includes works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ariel Ramírez.
The OCV, under the direction of Maestro Wellber, opens the evening with Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5. Russian violinist Sergei Ostrovsky performs as soloist. The young performer is first violinist and founder of the Aviv String Quartet, as well as concertmaster of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. Ostrovsky has performed in Germany, Austria, Canada, China, France, England, Israel, and Russia, among other countries.
Next, soloists Jinkyung Park, Adriana Di Paola, Mario Cerdá and Andrea Mastroni and the Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana will take to the stage of the Auditori to join the main ensemble of the Palau de les Arts in the performance of the Coronation Mass by the Austrian composer.
The Argentinean Ariel Ramírez's Misa criolla takes center stage in the second part of this concert. This work for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, of a religious and folkloric nature, is considered one of the high points of Argentine musical history. Composed and recorded in 1964, it has been performed by leading artists worldwide and is the only Argentine composition published on all five continents. The most widely disseminated version internationally is the recording made by José Carreras in 1987. The tenor Jorge de León, from Tenerife, well-known to the Palau de les Arts audience for his appearances in *La bruja *, * La vida breve */* Cavalleria rusticana *, *Tosca*, *Carmen* , and *Aida* , as well as a concert performance, returns to the Valencian arts center, where he will later participate in Massenet's concert opera *Le Cid* under the direction of Plácido Domingo, as well as in Puccini's * Tosca* , with Omer Meir Wellber and Maestro Domingo in the pit.
