About this work:
Travel, who doesn’t love it? But we also like to come home again. Nomads are at home everywhere. Or nowhere. The romance of the traveler, the wanderer, the seeker is universal.
Lilian Farahani together with pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren, Jeannette Landré – flute, Wilmar de Visser – double bass and Santiago Cimadevilla – bandoneon, take you on a musical journey through time and space with songs by Ravel, Dvorak, Vali, Weill, Piazzolla and Ramirez. An exotic nomadic journey full of mystery and passion.
Album Transcript:
Lilian Farahani
Dutch-Iranian soprano Lilian Farahani graduated cum laude with distinction from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Dutch National Opera Academy in Amsterdam. In the 2023/2024 season, she will play the role of The Bride in Kaija Saariaho’s opera ‘Innocence’ both at Dutch National Opera and San Francisco Opera; a role in which she could already be heard last season at the Royal Opera House in London and in 2021 at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.
In recent years, Lilian has sung on the major Dutch stages with companies such as Dutch National Opera, Opera Zuid and Dutch Touring Opera, but also in the opera houses of Nancy, Bern, Essen, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the International Maifestspiele Wiesbaden. In 2023, she made her Royal Opera House debut in London. Her repertoire includes Mozart roles such as Pamina (‘Zauberflöte’), Despina (‘Così fan tutte’), Zerlina (‘Don Giovanni’) and Susanna (‘Le nozze di Figaro’). But also Gretel (‘Hänsel und Gretel’), Carolina (‘Il matrimonio segreto’), Musetta (‘La bohème’) and Frasquita (‘Carmen’).
Besides opera, operette and the classical repertoire of Lieder, Lilian feels at home singing contemporary works. Besides Saariaho’s ‘Innocence’, she sang leading roles in ‘Anne and Zef’ by Monique Krüs, Death Knocks’ (Christian Jost) and ‘The infernal comedy’ by Michael Sturminger with the Dutch National Theater. In the spring of 2019, her debut CD ‘Woman - the making of…’ with works of Jake Heggie, was released, along with pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren.
Annelieke Lammerts van Bueren made this animation by Oblivion
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