RECITAL FOR MEZZO SOPRANO, TENOR, PIANO and CLASSICAL FEMALE SPANISH DANCER WITH CASTANETS

ANNA TONNA

VOCAL RECITAL

ACCLAIMImmediately, the mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna transports us to a sunny Andalusian city with clarity and directness of her warm mezzo sound, and an impeccable vernacular enunciation of the text. Rossini in America

Anna Tonna is a mezzo of powerful resources, with a voice of considerable volume and timbre of great beauty, wide, profound and silky, with a well resolved passaggio and pene-trating high notes. From the point of view of her expressive capabilities, one can speak of her elegant legato and phrasing full of intention and emotion. Diario de Sevilla

The North American mezzo soprano Anna Tonna possesses a beautiful voice with a stupendous timbre, with musicality and coloratura more than adequate for this rossinian repertoire of salon. Melónamo Digital

Anna Tonna with her clear mezzo soprano of uniform registers, musical and committed, of fresh and youthful timbre and of immediate simpatico to the listener; Emilio González Sanz, a pianist full of rhythm (in this case an item of the utmost importance) with rich and piercing sonority, that comes together and accompanies as an infallible compliment to the stylistic play of his partner. El Arte de la Fuga

WHATEspaña alla Rossini is a thematic vocal and Spanish dance recital that explores the relationship and connections the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) enjoyed with Spain.

HOWThis theatrical music concert is for mezzo soprano, tenor (optional), female Spanish classical dancer (optional) and pianist.

Mezzo soprano Anna Tonna offers a recital of chamber music songs composed by Rossini; the concert proposal has the option of the participation of a tenor, and female classical Spanish dancer who performs the 19th century the style known as "Escuela bolera".

The recital is performed in costumes that are in the style of the 1830's, and aims to re create the musi-cal soirees that took place in the 19th century bourgeois residences in Madrid.

WHYEspaña alla Rossini is fruit of an investigation by Reto Müller of the Rossini Gesellschaft in Switzerland, and José Luis Téllez of the Teatro Real de Madrid. The repertoire gathers cham-ber music songs for voice and piano by Rossini with texts by Pietro Metastasio, Ventura de la Vega and other authors in Castilian, French and Italian. In addition, it has aesthetic and musical elements that are intimately related to Spain: rythms from the "Escuela bolera" dance tradition of the XIX century such as the tirana, the seguidilla and the bolero liso. Numerous songs in the program are dedicated to Spanish friends of Rossini: the Queens María Cristina and Isabel II, and the Duchess of Alba and Berwick to name a few.

The program highlights Rossini's friendships with various Spanish composers, the relationship that the Italian composer enjoyed with his great friend and protector, "Marqués de las Marismas" Alejandro Aguado, as well as his close relationships with the circle of ex patriat Spaniards in France via his wife, the Spanish diva Isabella Colbran, the García familia and the first Spanish interpreters of his operas. To be noted is the little known fact that Rossini traveled to Madrid in 1831 with Alejando Aguado, at the invitation of Queen María Cristina to inaugurate The Royal Conservatory of Madrid.

The importance of the project is that for the first time, a live concert with its own discographic project is presented which highlights the influence of Spanish culture thru the prism of music, dance, the castanets as well as showcasing the relationship between the classical musics of Spain and the incipient aesthetics that precede flamenco style.

España alla Rossini is the subject of a new commercial disc release by iTinerat Classic label, available on streaming on Spotify and Youtube, and available for purchase on iTunes, Arkiv Music and Naxos.

VOCAL RECITAL

ACCLAIMImmediately, the mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna transports us to a sunny Andalusian city with clarity and directness of her warm mezzo sound, and an impeccable vernacular enunciation of the text. Rossini in America

Anna Tonna is a mezzo of powerful resources, with a voice of considerable volume and timbre of great beauty, wide, profound and silky, with a well resolved passaggio and pene-trating high notes. From the point of view of her expressive capabilities, one can speak of her elegant legato and phrasing full of intention and emotion. Diario de Sevilla

The North American mezzo soprano Anna Tonna possesses a beautiful voice with a stupendous timbre, with musicality and coloratura more than adequate for this rossinian repertoire of salon. Melónamo Digital

Anna Tonna with her clear mezzo soprano of uniform registers, musical and committed, of fresh and youthful timbre and of immediate simpatico to the listener; Emilio González Sanz, a pianist full of rhythm (in this case an item of the utmost importance) with rich and piercing sonority, that comes together and accompanies as an infallible compliment to the stylistic play of his partner. El Arte de la Fuga

WHATEspaña alla Rossini is a thematic vocal and Spanish dance recital that explores the relationship and connections the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) enjoyed with Spain.

HOWThis theatrical music concert is for mezzo soprano, tenor (optional), female Spanish classical dancer (optional) and pianist.

Mezzo soprano Anna Tonna offers a recital of chamber music songs composed by Rossini; the concert proposal has the option of the participation of a tenor, and female classical Spanish dancer who performs the 19th century the style known as "Escuela bolera".

The recital is performed in costumes that are in the style of the 1830's, and aims to re create the musi-cal soirees that took place in the 19th century bourgeois residences in Madrid.

WHYEspaña alla Rossini is fruit of an investigation by Reto Müller of the Rossini Gesellschaft in Switzerland, and José Luis Téllez of the Teatro Real de Madrid. The repertoire gathers cham-ber music songs for voice and piano by Rossini with texts by Pietro Metastasio, Ventura de la Vega and other authors in Castilian, French and Italian. In addition, it has aesthetic and musical elements that are intimately related to Spain: rythms from the "Escuela bolera" dance tradition of the XIX century such as the tirana, the seguidilla and the bolero liso. Numerous songs in the program are dedicated to Spanish friends of Rossini: the Queens María Cristina and Isabel II, and the Duchess of Alba and Berwick to name a few.

The program highlights Rossini's friendships with various Spanish composers, the relationship that the Italian composer enjoyed with his great friend and protector, "Marqués de las Marismas" Alejandro Aguado, as well as his close relationships with the circle of ex patriat Spaniards in France via his wife, the Spanish diva Isabella Colbran, the García familia and the first Spanish interpreters of his operas. To be noted is the little known fact that Rossini traveled to Madrid in 1831 with Alejando Aguado, at the invitation of Queen María Cristina to inaugurate The Royal Conservatory of Madrid.

The importance of the project is that for the first time, a live concert with its own discographic project is presented which highlights the influence of Spanish culture thru the prism of music, dance, the castanets as well as showcasing the relationship between the classical musics of Spain and the incipient aesthetics that precede flamenco style.

España alla Rossini is the subject of a new commercial disc release by iTinerat Classic label, available on streaming on Spotify and Youtube, and available for purchase on iTunes, Arkiv Music and Naxos.

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)Chamber music songs for voice and piano

Aragonese (1857-1868)

Beltà crudele (Madrid version, 1831)

La promessa (1831-35)

A Granada (1863)

La passeggiata (Anacreontica) (1831)

Bolero (1850)

Nizza, canzonetta spagnolesca (1836)

L'invito, bolero (1831-1835)

Les amants de Séville, Tirana pour deux voix for alto, tenor and piano (1864)

Canzonetta spagnuola or Arietta Spagnuola (1821)

Sorzico (1855-1868)

Cujus animam from Stabat MaterUn rêve,

for piano in B minor (Péchés de vieillesse, book 8), QR x/1

Bolero

Estimated duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, including intermission

Program subject to change

ROSSINI

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) is well known as an opera composer, mainly for his Barbiere di Siviglia. But his operatic career only covered the years between 1809 and 1829, when for contractual reasons he was forced to suspend his composing activities for the Ópera de Paris; however, chamber music, church composi-tions as well as songs were parts of his formative years, and he continued to write non-operatic music throughout his whole life. The years between 1830 and 1856 are considered his "silent" or retirement years, although he wrote important works such as his acclaimed Stabat mater (1832/41) as well as the song-collection Les soirées musicales (1835). After years of physical and mental deterioration, he went back to Paris where he gained again renewed forces and joy for life. From 1857 until his death he wrote a large output of small compositions, both vocal and instrumental which he called his "Sins of my Old Age", including his outstanding Petite Messe solennelle both in chamber and a orchestral versions.Rossini was born on the shores of the Adriatic in the town of Pesaro, but he received his initial musical lessons in Bologna, where he moved with his musician parents at the age of 8. During these years he was already in touch with Spanish culture through artists such as the Mombelli family, who traveled to Italy from their Iberian tours. In 1809 he heard for the first time the great Spanish soprano Isabella Colbran. She later became the Prima donna of the prestigious San Carlo Theater in Naples – also a place of a long Spanish influence – where he composed between the years 1815-1822 expressly for Colbran, his most important opera seria of his opus, including Elisabeta, Otello, Armida, Mosè in Egito and La donna del lago. He married Colbran in 1822. The Spanish diva had loaned a great sum to the then bankrupt Duke of Alba and Berwick, occasioning a trip and reason for Rossini to travel to Madrid in 1831 to recoup this loan; during this time, he promised a Stabat mater to the archdeacon Varela, who was a friend of his financial adviser and close friend, the Spa-nish banker Alejandro Aguado.Rossini wrote operas only on commission, based on contracts by which he regulated his remuneration. Other compositions however, were written for different reasons: the Stabat mater was a favor to his friend (although Varela subsequently gifted him a rich brilliant snuffbox). He also wrote small cantatas on com-mission, or to please wealthy patrons and friends. Many songs, including dozens of settings of the Pietro Metastasio lines "Mi lagnerò tacendo", where just album leafs that were gifted among his friends and admirers.The raison d’etre for composing music changed aspect during Rossini’s life. In his youth it was for pure delight, a sheer emanation of his genius. During his operatic career, it became a means of subsistence; in his "silent" years it became a question of prestige. Following his middle age crisis, composition became a need and a desire to express himself. During this period he wrote music purely for his own pleasure and for the use in his musical soirees. He left hundred of pieces deliberately unpublished in order for his second wife, Olympe Pélissier, could acquire an important artistic inheritance and use as a possible source of her income.Rossini called himself facetiously "a fourth-rate pianist“, although his brilliant piano writing denotes great skill. He adored the piano from his earliest days, followed with interest its rapid evolution and was even a stockholder of the piano manufacture Pleyel in Paris. The piano was the ideal accompaniment for such rhythmic intensive tunes like Spanish Boleros which he penned to the singing voice.

Reto Müller,German Rossini Society

BIOGRAPHIES

ANNA TONNA www.annatonna.com

"Anna Tonna wielded a firmly-projected, oaken mezzo sound that made one wish Zandonai had written more for her character...." Opera News

Mezzo Soprano Anna Tonna has been described as "a mezzo heroine who knows how to sing Rossini" by the Rossini Gessellschaft and as "showing off her warm, secure mezzo-soprano to maximum advantage" by New York Magazine; accolades such as these explain her constant demand as a recitalist and opera singer in both Europe and the Americas. The combination of a highly developed coloratura with a full, balanced, flexible lower register have guaranteed her acclaim as a lyric mezzo, both in familiar roles Rosina, Carmen, Dorabella, as well as in the more rare repertoire by Paisiello, Vivaldi, Mascagni, Zandonai and Giordano.

Additionally, Ms. Tonna’s passion for excellence in the recital genre have garnered her increasing acclaim in both the U.S. and Europe, particularly her path breaking explorations of the repertoire by composers of Spain and the Americas. Ms. Tonna’s recitals are a source of constant expectation and excitement in New York City, where she has performed at the Alice Tully Hall and Rose Center of Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, Merkin Hall, New York's Town Hall, Weil Recital Hall as well as at the Hispanic Society of America, Museum of the History of New York, Italian Cultural Institute and Goethe Haus. The same excitement greets her appearances in Spain, with performances at the Auditorio Nacional de España, Palacio de Longorio, Fundación Juan March among others. She has been featu-red at the Casals Festival of Puerto Rico, Festival Iberoamericano de las Artes in Puerto Rico, Música de Cámara of NY, Joy in Singing, Festival de Segovia among others. Her recital “Songs of post Civil War Spain” at the Fundación Juan March of Madrid was broadcast on Radio Nacional de España and hailed as “a tour de force” by the Spanish newspaper ABC.

Her recent appearances in the United States includes the North American premiere of Il Re (Giordano) at Lincoln Center, a concert at The Americas Society, her portrayal Laura Adorno in La Gioconda with New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, and concerts both at the Hispanic Society of America in New York City and at "El Escorial" in Spain dedicated to the composer Enrique Granados.

As a Fulbright Scholar to Spain, she realized a study of mid 20th century Spanish art song. Subsequently, she recorded “The Songs of Julio Gómez” with pianist Jorge Robaina for the label Verso en 2011.

Recently in Spain she has bowed at the Auditorio Nacional de España both in the opera The Magic Opal by Albéniz and the recital Amor en Travesti, the Manuel de Falla recital hall (SGAE), Botín Foundation, Museo de Romanticismo and Casa de América in Madrid. Her disc “España alla Rossini” with pianist Emilio González Sanz with iTinerant Classics label was released world wide in April of 2016.

MIGUEL BORRALLO, tenor, www.miguelborrallo.com

Spanish tenor Miguel Borrallo has been recognized in numerous vocal competitions, and has sung the emblematic tenor roles of the operatic repertoire: Il duca in Rigoletto, Edgardo in Lucia de Lamermoor, Nemorino in Elisir d’amore, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Alfredo in La Traviata among others. He has bowed in Spain and Italy’s most important theaters such as the Teatro Real of Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela, París Opera, Teatro Antico di Taormina, Teatro del Verme in Milán and Auditorio Nacional de España. His concert tours have taken him throughout Spain, Italy, France, England, Germany, and Holland, where he has been heard interpreting works such as the 8th Symphony by Mahler, Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Haendel’s Messiah, and as a solo recitalist in concerts of German and Italian Art Song.

CRISTINA GÓMEZ TORNAMIRA, Spanish Dance and Castanet Artist, www.cristinagomez.net

Dancer and castanet artist Cristina Gómez Tornamira became a member of Spain’s premiere dance organization El Ballet Nacional de España as a soloist in 2001, and ascending to the category of Prima Ballerina from 2007 to 2012. During her tenure at Ballet Nacional de España, she danced numerous choreographies in the world’s greatest theaters: Gran Liceo of Barcelona, Teatro Real y Teatro de la Zarzuela of Madrid, Teatro Coliseum y Sadler’s Wells of London, City Center of NYC, Teatro Mariins-ky of St. Petersburg, Teatro Bonkamura Orchard Hall of Tokyo among others. She has realized accom-paniments on her castanets for musical organizations such as the Mariinsky Orchestra, in a performance of Manuel de Falla’s La Vida Breve in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2011.

EMILIO GONZÁLEZ SANZ, piano, www.emiliogonzalezsanz.com

An interpretive artist of great versatility, Spanish pianist Emilio González Sanz is one of the most brilliant pianists of his generation. He has recovered forgotten repertoire by Spanish composers in concerts and live radio broadcasts such as Antonio José, Juan Arriaga and Santiago Masarnau, as well as works by Max Reger and Paul Dukas. He has performed with the great orchestras of Spain, and has bowed in piano recitals and with chamber music ensemble in Europe’s great concert halls. He combines his brilliant solo career with his position as professor of Chamber Music Studies at the Royal Conserva-tory of Madrid (Spain). “The Enchanted Melody” is released with the iTinerant Kids seal is his first CD, with clarinetist Mónica Campillo as part of the duo, MoEBius.

BIOGRAPHIES

ANNA TONNA www.annatonna.com

"Anna Tonna wielded a firmly-projected, oaken mezzo sound that made one wish Zandonai had written more for her character...." Opera News

Mezzo Soprano Anna Tonna has been described as "a mezzo heroine who knows how to sing Rossini" by the Rossini Gessellschaft and as "showing off her warm, secure mezzo-soprano to maximum advantage" by New York Magazine; accolades such as these explain her constant demand as a recitalist and opera singer in both Europe and the Americas. The combination of a highly developed coloratura with a full, balanced, flexible lower register have guaranteed her acclaim as a lyric mezzo, both in familiar roles Rosina, Carmen, Dorabella, as well as in the more rare repertoire by Paisiello, Vivaldi, Mascagni, Zandonai and Giordano.

Additionally, Ms. Tonna’s passion for excellence in the recital genre have garnered her increasing acclaim in both the U.S. and Europe, particularly her path breaking explorations of the repertoire by composers of Spain and the Americas. Ms. Tonna’s recitals are a source of constant expectation and excitement in New York City, where she has performed at the Alice Tully Hall and Rose Center of Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, Merkin Hall, New York's Town Hall, Weil Recital Hall as well as at the Hispanic Society of America, Museum of the History of New York, Italian Cultural Institute and Goethe Haus. The same excitement greets her appearances in Spain, with performances at the Auditorio Nacional de España, Palacio de Longorio, Fundación Juan March among others. She has been featu-red at the Casals Festival of Puerto Rico, Festival Iberoamericano de las Artes in Puerto Rico, Música de Cámara of NY, Joy in Singing, Festival de Segovia among others. Her recital “Songs of post Civil War Spain” at the Fundación Juan March of Madrid was broadcast on Radio Nacional de España and hailed as “a tour de force” by the Spanish newspaper ABC.

Her recent appearances in the United States includes the North American premiere of Il Re (Giordano) at Lincoln Center, a concert at The Americas Society, her portrayal Laura Adorno in La Gioconda with New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, and concerts both at the Hispanic Society of America in New York City and at "El Escorial" in Spain dedicated to the composer Enrique Granados.

As a Fulbright Scholar to Spain, she realized a study of mid 20th century Spanish art song. Subsequently, she recorded “The Songs of Julio Gómez” with pianist Jorge Robaina for the label Verso en 2011.

Recently in Spain she has bowed at the Auditorio Nacional de España both in the opera The Magic Opal by Albéniz and the recital Amor en Travesti, the Manuel de Falla recital hall (SGAE), Botín Foundation, Museo de Romanticismo and Casa de América in Madrid. Her disc “España alla Rossini” with pianist Emilio González Sanz with iTinerant Classics label was released world wide in April of 2016.

MIGUEL BORRALLO, tenor, www.miguelborrallo.com

Spanish tenor Miguel Borrallo has been recognized in numerous vocal competitions, and has sung the emblematic tenor roles of the operatic repertoire: Il duca in Rigoletto, Edgardo in Lucia de Lamermoor, Nemorino in Elisir d’amore, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Alfredo in La Traviata among others. He has bowed in Spain and Italy’s most important theaters such as the Teatro Real of Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela, París Opera, Teatro Antico di Taormina, Teatro del Verme in Milán and Auditorio Nacional de España. His concert tours have taken him throughout Spain, Italy, France, England, Germany, and Holland, where he has been heard interpreting works such as the 8th Symphony by Mahler, Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Haendel’s Messiah, and as a solo recitalist in concerts of German and Italian Art Song.

CRISTINA GÓMEZ TORNAMIRA, Spanish Dance and Castanet Artist, www.cristinagomez.net

Dancer and castanet artist Cristina Gómez Tornamira became a member of Spain’s premiere dance organization El Ballet Nacional de España as a soloist in 2001, and ascending to the category of Prima Ballerina from 2007 to 2012. During her tenure at Ballet Nacional de España, she danced numerous choreographies in the world’s greatest theaters: Gran Liceo of Barcelona, Teatro Real y Teatro de la Zarzuela of Madrid, Teatro Coliseum y Sadler’s Wells of London, City Center of NYC, Teatro Mariins-ky of St. Petersburg, Teatro Bonkamura Orchard Hall of Tokyo among others. She has realized accom-paniments on her castanets for musical organizations such as the Mariinsky Orchestra, in a performance of Manuel de Falla’s La Vida Breve in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2011.

EMILIO GONZÁLEZ SANZ, piano, www.emiliogonzalezsanz.com

An interpretive artist of great versatility, Spanish pianist Emilio González Sanz is one of the most brilliant pianists of his generation. He has recovered forgotten repertoire by Spanish composers in concerts and live radio broadcasts such as Antonio José, Juan Arriaga and Santiago Masarnau, as well as works by Max Reger and Paul Dukas. He has performed with the great orchestras of Spain, and has bowed in piano recitals and with chamber music ensemble in Europe’s great concert halls. He combines his brilliant solo career with his position as professor of Chamber Music Studies at the Royal Conserva-tory of Madrid (Spain). “The Enchanted Melody” is released with the iTinerant Kids seal is his first CD, with clarinetist Mónica Campillo as part of the duo, MoEBius.

ELAINE RINALDI, piano, www.orchestramiami.org/artistic-director

Elaine Rinaldi, Founder and Artistic Director of Orchestra Miami, is a Miami native who has chosen to return home and reinvest in her community. Under her artistic supervision and direction, Orchestra Miami has performed high quality classical music concerts to literally thousands of people through its annual Free Outdoor Concerts and introduced over 21,000 school children to classical music through its collaboration with the MDCPS Cultural Passport Program and In-School Performances. Critics have called her performances “brilliant” and her interpretative work “impeccable”. In addition to her work with Orchestra Miami, Rinaldi is much in demand as a recitalist, vocal coach and opera conductor. As a collaborative artist, Elaine has performed across the country and internationally with many notable singers including, tenor Russell Thomas, sopranos Elizabeth Caballero, Elaine Alvarez, Yunah Lee and Olga Makarina among many others. From 2010-2014, she was the accompanist for the “Prima Volta” recital debut series for Austrian artists at the Austrian Cultural Center in New York City, and has perfor-med in prestigious venues such as Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Salzburg’s Schloss Leopoldskron and Tokyo’s Yamaha Recital Hall.

ELISABET TORRAS AGUILERA, Spanish Dance and Castanet Artist, www.torrasdance.com

The art of Spanish dancer Elisabet Torras Aguilera, "whose bracing rhythms dissolved into muffled echoes" (New York Times) was born and raised in Barcelona (Spain) and has achieved mastery of both Spanish and international dance styles: Flamenco, Classical Spanish dance, Escuela Bolera, Spanish Folklore, The Emma Maleras Castanet Method, Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Elisabet has toured Europe and Asia with Zarzuela, Flamenco and Classical Spanish Dance companies. In 2009 she was invited as a guest artist to the Flamenco Festival “Viva España” in Moscow and the “Presidence Belge”-Festival in Brussels. She has toured Spain and China with Flamenco pianist Manolo Carrasco’s company, performed several seasons with Javier Latorre’s Somorrostro Dansa Flamenca Company and danced for Rojas & Rodriguez Company in Madrid in 2011. Since 2013 Elisabet performs frequently in the New York City Tri-State Area with Flamenco companies such as “Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana”, “American Bolero Dance Company”, “A Palo Seco”, “Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca” and Latin Grammy Award Winner Hernan Romero. She recently bowed at NYC's Carnegie Hall as a special guest artist at the 31st Annual Gala of "Los Amigos de la Zarzuela" in New York City.

TECH RIDERConcert Space

The PRESENTER will put at the disposition of the artists an acoustic concert space for the recital, a performance grand piano that is conditioned and tuned near to the date of the performance, as well as a concerted date for a dress rehearsal in the actual performance space, or in a space that emulates the conditions of the concert hall.

Size of performance space and technical requirementsApproximately 15 x 9 feet, conveniently illuminated with a basic lighting plot, with soloist spotlight for each one of the interpreters. If dancer is contracted, a fully sprung or semi sprung floor surface is requi-red for the stage performance.

Music Stand

Piano

Public Public

DOSSIER OF ACTIVITIES OF ESPAÑA ALLA ROSSINI

Dates and Venues

Ancient Spanish Monastery (Miami, FL.) presented by Orchestra Miami: 1/22/17

España alla Rossini Showcase for the APAP 2017 Conference at Casa Italiana of NYC: 1/9/17

España alla Rossini Showcase for the APAP 2017 Conference, NYC: 1/8/17

"Amigos de la Opera de Santiago de Compostela" (Spain) at the Paraninfo of theUniversity of Santiago of Compostela: 1/25/16

Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid (Spain): 1/21/16

Círculo de Labradores in Seville (Spain): 1/15/16

Presentation of disc in Madrid (Spain) at La Quinta de Mahler: 9/30/15

Museo de Romantícismo de Madrid (Spain): 7/2/15

Altamura Center for the Arts, Round Top (NY, USA): 6/26/15

El Festival de Segovia (Spain), Patio de Armas of Alcazar of Segovia: 7/21/14

Contact:Classical Music Partners International, Anna Tonna 917 680 1582

anna@classicalmusicpartners.com nell@classicalmusicpartners.com

KAIDAN, promoción y comunicación Blanca Gutiérrez Cardona Tfo: 625 89 93 71 blancagutierrezcardona@gmail.com

SELECTED LIST OF REVIEWS

“An excellent homage to the Sins of Old Age (and not so old!) which upon listening does not indicate peni-tence; on the contrary, it is a considerable pleasure”. (Codalario Magazine)

“The interpreters have lavished care on these pieces, know what this style asks for, and the sound of the pianoforte gives the atmosphere the color of salon and the peculiar flavor that helps to transport us towards the atmosphere of this infrequently heard music. For its document and professional quality of labor, it deserves many lauds”. (Scherzo Magazine)

“Anna Tonna with her clear mezzo soprano of uniform registers, musical and committed, of fresh and youthful timbre and of immediate simpatico to the listener; Emilio González Sanz, a pianist full of rhythm (in this case an item of the utmost importance) with rich and piercing sonority, that comes toge-ther and accompanies as an infallible compliment to the stylistic play of his partner. One can hear that both know how to give each others part its sense, and we can perceive the love and enjoyment of inter-preting this music, just as surely as the author had when he composed it”. (El arte de la fuga)

“Anna Tonna is a mezzo of powerful resources, with a voice of considerable volume and timbre of great beauty, wide, profound and silky, with a well resolved passaggio and penetrating high notes. From the point of view of her expressive capabilities, one can speak of her elegant legato and phrasing full of intention and emotion, as well as the languidness in the the songs A Granada and La vuida, as well as the more rhythmic ones, which were full of grace and personality”. (El diario de Sevilla)

ESPAÑA ALLA ROSSINI CONCERT PROMO VIDEO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-bjDyA13qk

ESPAÑA ALLA ROSSINI DISC TEASER:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNyBlpt1Gqw

ESPAÑA ALLA ROSSINIRossini and Spain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So8gZGIb1MU

ESPAÑA ALLA ROSSINIThe Spanish Touch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5wKiQFT09s