Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez return to Ljubljana two years after their last appearance, at the 70th edition of the Ljubljana Festival, where they received standing ovations for their performance with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. Since making his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 1996, Juan Diego Flórez has performed at all the major opera houses in Milan, Berlin, Salzburg, New York, Vienna and Zurich. Oksana Lyniv is the founder of the international classical music festival
LvivMozArt. In 2021 she became the first female conductor to conduct at the Bayreuth Festival. This year’s concert in the Gallus Hall will consist of some of the most famous romantic arias of the 19th century, showcasing the tenor voice, along with some popular instrumental excerpts. The greater part of the programme will draw on the Italian repertoire of operatic giants such as Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi, while the introduction to the second half will feature some of the most eminent French opera composers, including Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet and Jacques Offenbach.