Canolfan UCHELDRE Centre

70 YEARS YOUNG is André's ultimate concert featuring musical highlights chosen by the Maestro himself from his illustrious career so far. This unique commemorative celebration will take you on an unbelievable journey around the world to André’s most amazing concert locations, including Schönbrunn in Vienna, Radio City Music Hall in New York, and the Coronation Concert in Amsterdam.

As part of the celebration, André reminisces with cinema host Charlotte Hawkins about his life, love and music, while taking his cinema audience on an exclusive tour of his home in Maastricht.

Bring your friends and kick off the New Year together in style, in the comfort of Ucheldre, with the most wonderful music from the birthday boy – the King of Waltz!

Hip hip hooray!

South African artist William Kentridge focuses his extraordinary visual imagination on Berg’s operatic masterpiece, set in an apocalyptic pre–World War I environment.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium, with baritone Peter Mattei as the title character. Soprano Elza van den Heever is Wozzeck’s unfaithful mate. The commanding cast also includes tenor Christopher Ventris as the Drum-Major, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Doctor, and tenor Gerhard Siegel as the Captain.

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Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyrical arias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter and a poignant final scene over which the composer himself wept. Richard Jones’s character-led production perfectly captures La Bohème’s mixture of comedy, romance and tragedy, with striking designs by Stewart Laing.

The cast features some of the greatest interpreters of Puccini’s bohemian lovers performing today:

Mimì Sonya Yoncheva

Rodolfo Charles Castronovo

Marcello Andrzej Filończyk

Musetta Aida Garifullina

Schaunard Gyula Nagy

Colline Peter Kellner

Joined by former members of The Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme.

Sung in Italian with English surtitles

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in strong counterpoint are the ingredients of domestic intrigue, determined love and the cruelty of an oppressive regime.

The music is transcendent throughout and includes the famous Act I Quartet, the Prisoners’ Chorus and Florestan’s impassioned Act II cry in the darkness and vision of hope. Tobias Kratzer’s new staging brings together the dark reality of the French Revolutionary ‘Terror’ and our own time to illuminate Fidelio’s inspiring message of shared humanity.

Sung in German with English surtitles