In questa reggia Oksana Dyka, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra & Constantine Orbelian

• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): Turandot, SC 91:
• 1 Puccini: Turandot, SC 91: In questa reggia 06:34
• Tosca, SC 69:
• 2 Puccini: Tosca, SC 69: Vissi d'arte 03:39
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Un ballo in maschera:
• 3 Verdi: Un ballo in maschera: Ecco l'orrido campo 08:55
• Nabucco:
• 4 Verdi: Nabucco: Anch'io dischiuso un giorno 10:02
• Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly, SC 74:
• 5 Puccini: Madama Butterfly, SC 74: Un bel di, vedremo 05:01
• Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino:
• 6 Verdi: La forza del destino: Pace, pace mio Dio 06:06
• Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut, SC 64:
• 7 Puccini: Manon Lescaut, SC 64: Sola, perduta, abbandonata 06:10
• Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth (Excerpts):
• 8 Verdi: Macbeth (Excerpts): Nel dì della vittoria 08:12
• 9 Verdi: Macbeth (Excerpts): La luce langue 04:32
• 10 Verdi: Macbeth (Excerpts): Una macchia è qui tuttora! 08:54
• Total Runtime 01:08:05

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Splendid interpretations and superb singing make this album of opera arias a special treat. Oksana Dyka’s dramatic and dazzling voice sparkles in this collection of favorites from treasured operas by Puccini and Verdi. A rising star of the world’s most famous opera houses, the acclaimed Ukrainian soprano has been called “nothing less than sensational.” Dyka is accompanied by “the singer’s dream collaborator,” four-time GRAMMY®-nominated conductor Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra. Dyka and Orbelian capture the excitement of these selections, which include Dyka’s portrayals of some of opera’s most famous protagonists, including Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly and Lady Macbeth.

Oksana Dyka, soprano
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Constantine Orbelian, conductor

Oksana Dyka
Born in Ukraine, Oksana Dyka graduated at Kiev Conservatory in 2004, and from 2003 to 2007 she was the main soloist at Ukraine National Opera of Kiev.

In 2003 she won third prize of the Marseilles International Opera competition, which landed her the part of Tosca at National Opera of Montpellier in March 2005.


Also in 2005, Oksana was higly acclaimed as Tosca at Estonian National Opera in Tallinn and at Dalhalla Opera Festival in Sweden (same production), and she made her debut as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello at Estonian National Opera.

A very much appreciated intepreter of symphonic and chamber music, she made her canadian debut in Montreal as a soloist in Shostakovich’s Symphony n. 14, with “I Musici” Orchestra. The success she enjoyed led her to also sing the same program in Italy with Orchestra Sinfonica di Padova, and in Denmark with Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark, in 2007.

Early highlights include Don Carlo (Elisabetta) at Teatro Regio in Turin, Il Trovatore (Leonora) at Circuito Lombardo, Madama Butterfly at Queensland Opera in Brisbane. On the concert platform, she performed with Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi conducted by M° Slatkin in New Year’s concerts (Verdi’s arias), with San Francisco Symphony conducted by Micheal Tilson Thomas in Shostakovich’s ring cycle from Jewish Folk Poetry, and with Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem.

During the following years, she appeared on the main stages worlwide, with Tosca at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome directed by Franco Zeffirelli, a scenic version of Verdi’s Requiem at Tampere Opera in Finland, the debut as Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) at Estonian National Opera in Tallinn. Further highlights were Ariadne auf Naxos in Genoa, Il Trittico (Georgetta) in Frankfurt, Madama Butterfly in Bologna, Graz and Valencia, Aida in Buenos Aires in tournée with La Scala under the baton of M° Barenboim, Il Tabarro at Opéra Bastille in Paris, Pagliacci and Tosca at La Scala in Milan, in Dresden, in Valencia under the baton of M° Mehta, at Arena di Verona and in Pompei with Teatro San Carlo di Napoli.

In recent seasons, she obtained great reviews from public and critics singing a new production of Eugene Onegin in Los Angeles under the baton of James Conlon, Mefistofele in Montecarlo, Tosca in Frankfurt, Dresden and Valencia, Aida and Tosca at La Scala, Un Ballo in Maschera in Turin.

Most recently, Tosca at Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, Berlin Staatsoper and Royal Opera House in London, Madama Butterfly in Los Angeles and in Munich, Un Ballo in Maschera at La Scala and in Tokyo in tournée with Teatro Regio di Torino, Aida at Arena di Verona and at Opéra Bastille, a new production of Prince Igor at the Metropolitan under the baton of M° Noseda, Prince Igor and Tosca at Mariinsky Theatre, Britten’s War Requiem at Bregenzer Festspiele, Madama Butterfly at Opéra Bastille, Piqué Dame at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Le Jouer at Opéra de Montecarlo, Jenufa and Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, Piqué Dame at Opernhaus Zürich, Turandot at Arena di Verona, Prince Igor at the Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, Il corsaro at Palau Les Arts in Valencia, Nabucco at Hamburgische Staatsoper and at Opernhaus in Zurich.

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