Watch Hans Tashjian perform Russian music live online

Hans Tashjian

Bass Hans Tashjian will be part of an evening of Russian songs on Wednesday, December 5th. The program will feature singers from the Yale opera program performing a wide array of Russian vocal music, from solo songs and arias to ensemble pieces.

The program will include works by such composers as Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Glinka, Shebalin, Pakhmutova and Rachmaninoff. Tashjian will sing Dmitry Kabalevsky's Don Quixote's Serenade.

The performance will be at Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall at 7:30 PM EST/4:30 PM PST or you can watch it live ONLINE.

Tashjian is an alumnus of the Manhattan School of Music and Carnegie Mellon University, where he received the Derdeyne Award in Voice. He has been a young artist at Chautauqua Opera, Sarasota Opera (where he was a recipient of the Scheininger-Reznick Scholarship), and the Caramoor Music Festival. 

He will perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony in the upcoming season for the Jackson Symphony Orchestra.

Watch the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni online

Gerald Finley and Luca Pisaroni at Glyndebourne

You will be able to watch the acclaimed 2010 production of Mozart's Don Giovanni from Glyndebourne online. It features three of the greatest low voices around today, Gerald Finley in the title role, Luca Pisaroni as Masetto and Guido Loconsolo as Masetto. Also not to be missed in this production is the Don Ottavio of William Burden and the Donna Anna of Kate Royal.

The video will go live HERE at 3pm London time (10 AM EST/7 AM PST) on July 6 and remain online until Sunday, July 13.

Critic Rupert Christiansen, writing about Gerald Finley as Don Giovanni and Luca Pisaroni as Leporello, wrote: "Suavely ruthless, Finley was both steely monster and molten charmer, singing with a firmness, clarity and stylistic elegance that I can’t easily imagine surpassed. Pisaroni made a delightfully goofy but treacherous Leporello, both his master’s alter ego and his rival."