AILEEN ITANI
MEZZO-SOPRANO
LIVE PERFORMANCES ARE BACK!
This fall brings a couple of firsts for me: my first Mozart C-Minor Mass, with Torben Svendsen and Københavns Kantatakor. Performances in the Copenhagen area on October 31, November 3 and 6. Get tickets here!
In December, I will be making a return visit to Musikkens Hus for my first Messiah as a mezzo, with the wonderful Aalborg Symfoniorkester under the direction of Maestro Risto Joost. We'll be performing Mozart's arrangement of Händel's masterpiece, so be prepared for some surprises! Join us on December 16.
ONLINE PERFORMANCES
My performance of Luciano Berio's Folksongs with Aalborg Symfoniorkester under Michael Schønwandt is available for a limited time online, and can be viewed here.
And, while it lasts, our live recording from the Danish National Opera of Paul von Klenau's MICHAEL KOHLHAAS, is still available for streaming on Danmarks Radio's website. Enjoy it here!
RECENT WORK
SWEENEY TODD
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Royal Danish Opera
BEGGAR WOMAN
Featured role
In the first of what promises to be a series of musicals at the Royal Danish Opera, I was fortunate to be able to draw on my early experience in the American musical theatre genre to explore the sad fate of the Beggar Woman – whom everyone brushes aside, but whose past caps Sweeney's final, greatest tragedy.
MICHAEL KOHLHAAS
PAUL VON KLENAU
Danish National Opera
LISBETH
Female lead
This gorgeous rediscovered work of huge historical interest – it was the first opera, in 1933, to make use of twelve-tone techniques – was heard by audiences for the first time in more than eight decades in a lavish and moving production.
MASS
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Nordic Opera/
Odense Symphony Orchestra
SOLOIST/STREET CHORUS
"Thank You"
This Danish premiere of Bernstein's seminal work was conducted by the inimitable David Firman and named "Classical Event of the Year" by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
SOL GÅR OP, SOL GÅR NED
PELLE GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN
Royal Danish Opera
SULAMITH
Female lead
This dean of Danish composers swore he'd never write an opera – but when the Royal Opera's director Sven Müller heard he had one written and waiting, he snatched it up for DKT's 10th anniversary season at the Opera House on Holmen. The sold-out run received universally rave reviews.