Tutto Verdi – Luisa Miller

The story of the star-crossed lovers Luisa and Rodolfo fully occupies center stage in this production from the 2007 Festival Verdi in Parma, with a minimalist decor highlighted by a simple wooden table for the heroine’s home, and an elegant sofa for the home of the noble Walter family. Franco-Italian director Denis Krief pares down the production to focus on the music and, above all, the outstanding singers. Fiorenza Cedolins heads the roster of great Verdi artists in this production.

Verdi, Messa da Requiem

Celebrated conductor Lorin Maazel, a young orchestra of outstanding musicians, four high-caliber soloists and one of the great choral works of musical literature – this alone would make this live recording of Verdi’s Requiem a stand-out document of filmed music. But there is more: the venue of this grandiose performance, the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, with its shimmering golden Byzantine mosaics framed by mighty pillars and arches. Modeled on Constantine the Great’s Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, the 11th-century basilica has been the workplace of many a great musician in the past, such as Claudio Monteverdi, Adrian Willaert and Giovanni Gabrieli. Lorin Maazel, Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, is also the Music Director of the Symphonica Toscanini, a young orchestra founded in May 2006 that has performed under Zubin Mehta, Georges Prêtre and Kurt Masur. ‘In recent tours of Europe and the U.S., the musicians expressed their unique musical potential by playing so harmoniously and compellingly as a group that they conquered every audience,’ said Maazel.

Berlin Opera Night 2007

OPERA NIGHT 2007 for the German AIDS Foundation live from the Deutsche OperBerlin with world-renowned artists presented by Max Raabe PROGRAM: 1. Overture (from: L‘ITALIANA IN ALGERI) / 2. La calunnia è un venticello (from: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA) / 3. Sempre libera (from: LA TRAVIATA) / 4. Pourquoi me réveiller (from: WERTHER) / 5. Nemico della patria (from: ANDREA CHENIER) / 6. La mamma morta (from: ANDREA CHENIER) / 7. O Fortuna (from: CARMINA BURANA) / 8. Fortuna plango vulnera (from: CARMINA BURANA) / 9. O mio babbino caro (from: GIANNI SCHICCHI) / 10. Cruda sorte (from: L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI) / 11. Una furtiva lagrima (from: L’ELISIR D’AMORE) / 12. Si mi chiamano Mimì (from: LA BOHÈME) / 13. Ah! Non credea mirarti … Ah! non giunge (from: LA SONNAMBULA) / 14. Lippen schweigen (from: DIE LUSTIGE WITWE) / 15. Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert! (from: GIUDITTA) / 16. Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from: DAS LAND DES LÄCHELNS)

Flying Pickets Play Avo Session

Flying Pickets are one of the leading acappella groups in Europe. The group thrives on its vibrant live performance and has continued to tour extensively throughout the world, releasing 12 albums. In 2007 there is a 25-year anniversary tour production of a completely new show ‘Changing Times’. The new CD release is ‘EVERYDAY’ with 12 new songs including 3 original songs.

Herbert von Karajan – Maestro for the Screen

Herbert von Karajan was the important conductor, who created film and later video productions on his own responsibility. „I am actually born too early“, he said, well knowing, that the video possibilities were still in their very beginnings. Georg Wuebbolt made interviews with Karajan’s team: his Director of photography, his cutter, his secretary, his producer and musicians of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This documentary includes outstanding performance material from the Unitel and Telemondial library, as well as unreleased digitally remastered excerpts from the legendary

RBB (SFB) and ORF archive.

Reamonn plays Avo Session

Reamonn – a German rock band, well known all over Europe – was officially set up in 1998. They produced their first album Tuesday and the first single Supergirl was a major success, it went to gold and became the most played song on German radio in 2000. Reamonn became stars and played at many festivals and concerts. Their third album Beautiful Sky was released in 2003 and went double platinum. They toured with Robbie Williams in Switzerland and Austria. And now they are on tour again – with their latest album Wish.

The Reichsorchester

In 2009 the Berlin Philharmonic celebrated its 125th year.The orchestra is using its jubilee as an opportunity to examine a rather unknown chapter in its history: The years under the rule of the National Socialists (between 1933 and 1945). Thanks to contemporary witnesses from the orchestra and its fringes who are still alive today, and thanks also to extensive and until now unappraised archive materials, it is possible to gain an insight into this microcosmos: where does the thin line run separating autonomy from entanglement, innocence from guilt? A chapter from the history of Germany and Berlin, as gripping as it is volatile, comes to life once more.

Dolores O’Riordan plays Avo Session

acclaimed voice of The Cranberries – is back. Her first-ever solo LP Are You Listening? is released and features the stunning new single Ordinary Day. Written and recorded between her homes in Canada and Dublin, the album is a striking return to form, punctuated with angular chords and that crystalline voice. Dolores O´Riordan is ready to present her first solo LP now at Avo Session!