WHEN GASTRONOMY IS AN ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE Recognized chef Joan Roca, best chef of the world in 2013, was responsible for designing the dinner menu culminating the Culture for Peace & Human Rights event organized by the Onuart Foundation in Geneva last December 2014. Joan Roca i Fontané (Gerona, Spain, 1964) […]
For the right to education and the dignity of children. The acclaimed Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez offered a memorable concert, seconded by the sopranos Pretty Yende and Fatma Said and the Russian bass Sergey Artamonov. The orchestra, formed by fifty of the best musicians of the Youth Orchestras System, […]
A MODERN FAIRY TALE Born in a small village in South Africa, about 500 kilometers from Johannesburg, Pretty Yende began singing in the choir of her church. South African soprano Pretty Yende first came to international attention in 2010 when she was the first artist in the history of the Belvedere […]
A young soprano who is developing a brilliant career in the opera. Egyptian soprano Fatma Said made her debut at the Cairo Opera House at the age of 14 and is the first Egyptian soprano to receive a scholarship to study at the famous Teatro della Scala Academy in Milan. […]
FROM KALINIGRADO TO THE BOLSHOI Winner of the Obuklova All-Russia Competition for Young Singers prize Sergey Artamonov graduated from the Rachmaninov College of Music in Kaliningrad (2001) and shortly after entered the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. In the Conservatory Opera Theatre, Sergey Artamonov sang King Rene in Iolanta and Gremin in Eugene Onegin by […]
A true citizen of the world. Pablo Mielgo’s talent and entrepreneurial spirit has led him to take on the mission of making music accessible to everyone. A network of friendships he has forged around the world, between Berlin and Qatar, Lucerne and Los Angeles, now allow him to enrich the […]