Kings and Queens of Opera Asia Tour
News & Press: May 07 2023 | The Straits Times
His richly burnished and stentorian voice shone in portrayals of Claudius (Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet), Solomon (Charles Gounod’s Queen Of Sheba), Don Carlo (Giuseppe Verdi’s opera of the same title) and Prince Gremin (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin)...
“Teste also had moments in the spotlight. His richly burnished and stentorian voice shone in portrayals of Claudius (Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet), Solomon (Charles Gounod’s Queen Of Sheba), Don Carlo (Giuseppe Verdi’s opera of the same title) and Prince Gremin (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), demonstrating that his was no undercard act.”
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Kings & Queens of Opera Asian tour
News: Apr 10 2023
This May, Nicolas Testé returns to Asia with the Kings & Queens of Opera program, an enthralling evening of bel canto and verismo music, joined by Diana Damrau and conductor Pavel Baleff.
They will be accompanied by local orchestras in each city, performing with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at Esplanade Concert Hall, the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra at Taipei National Concert Hall, the KBS Symphony Orchestra at Lotte Concert Hall and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at Suntory Hall.
At the Hong Kong Cultural Centre he will sing a recital titled All for Love, alongside Diana Damrau and pianist Mathieu Pordoy, featuring a program of Lieder, French song, operetta, and opera arias and duets. For a full list of dates and locations, see the list below:
May 5 Singapore
May 10 Hong Kong (All for Love)
May 14 Taipei
May 18 Seoul
May 23 Tokyo
May 27 Tokyo
“Love and life” summer recitals
News & Press: Jul 13 2023
Together with Diana Damrau and renowned pianist Helmut Deutsch, Nicolas Testé graces the stage of the Festival de Peralada on July 29 with “Amor i vida”. They will perform works by Duparc, Strauss, Gounod, Donizetti, Bellini and Léhar, among others, to offer an inspiring journey through opera, operetta, as well as Lieder and songs.
They will reprise this program at the Festival de Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche on August 4, with pianist Ramon Théobald.