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Concert to celebrate 50th anniversary of Vietnam-Austria diplomatic ties

A special concert will be held at the Hanoi Opera House on November 26 night as part of the activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Austria.
Concert to celebrate 50th anniversary of Vietnam-Austria diplomatic ties ảnh 1At the press conference to announce the concert. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A special concert will beheld at the Hanoi Opera House on November 26 night as part of the activitiescelebrating the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations betweenVietnam and Austria.

Titled MUSIK AUS WIEN “MOZART & STRAUSS”, theevent will be organised by the Austrian Embassy in Vietnam in cooperation with theVietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO).

The VNSO will be joined by Rainer Honeck, theconcertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as singersMarta Poliszot (Soprano) and Adrian Eröd (Baritone; from the Vienna State Opera),heard a press conference held by the embassy in Hanoi on November 15.

They will perform numerous compositions by WolfgangA. Mozart, Johann Strauss's son Josef Strauss, as well as Emmerich Kálmán.

As leader of the Wiener Virtuosen, the WienerStreichersolisten, the Ensemble Wien and the Vienna-Berlin Chamber Orchestra,Honeck is also a prolific chamber musician, appearing on numerous studio andbroadcast radio recordings.

He has performed as a conductor in recent years,with the Malmo Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra andKioi Sinfonietta in Tokyo, among others.

Eröd is a great favourite of public and press at hisbase, the Vienna State Opera, with his tremendous diversity, whether as Figaroin Rossini’s Barber of Seville, as Valentin in Gounod’s Faust, as Britten’sBilly Budd, or as Lescaut in Massenet’s Manon.

Poliszot has a beautiful, sonorous lyricalcoloratura soprano voice and wonderful physical abilities.

Jowita Dziedzic, theatre critic for Gazeta Wyborcza, wrote: “On the state she is like a fish in water; her movements are full ofgrace, and her voice flawless.”
Concert to celebrate 50th anniversary of Vietnam-Austria diplomatic ties ảnh 2Austrian Ambassador to Vietnam Hans-Peter Glanzer. (Photo: VNA)
In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency(VNA), Austrian Ambassador Hans-Peter Glanzer noted that there have beenpositive developments in the relationship between the two countries, especiallyin economy as reflected through significant trade volume and the increasingnumber of Austrian investors in the Southeast Asian nation.

The embassy will roll out more activities in thetime ahead to boost the bilateral cooperation, especially in culture andeconomy, helping to promote the Vietnamese market among Austrian businesses, the diplomat said./.
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