CALLAS ARIAS

Dedication to Maria Callas on her birthday

Carole Sidney Louis, Soprano & Elda Laro, Pianist

 

CAROLE SIDNEY LOUIS is a french soprano who lives in Berlin. Amongst many performances is here one to mention: Die Frau in Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg at New York- Times Square in 2015. „A reimagining of Schönberg’s 1909 opera by artist Robin Rhode for Performa 15, the piece featured a single soprano (the renowned Carole Sidney Louis, her face painted a stark white) projecting above a sizable orchestra conducted by Maestro Arturo Tamayo. It was the first time an opera had ever been staged in Times Square, a location that updates the backdrop of Schönberg’s original piece…Thus, a redemptive thread runs ever-more-prominently through the performance as Louis’s laments swell, her words increasingly staccato blips of memories racing past so frantically that they are inaccessible to the audience…”- ARTSY EDITORIAL- BY ALEXANDER FORBES

 

The versatile pianist and conductor ELDA LARO has been working as a répétiteur at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin since January 2016. Previously, she was director of studies at the Münster Theater or three seasons. In December 2015 she accepted an invitation from the Albanian National Opera in Tirana and took over the musical direction of Carl Orff’s oratorio “Carmina Burana” in three concerts, followed by her debut as conductor of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI at the same house in 2016.