Gwendoline Blondeel - Prix Caecilia
Past event
Cancelled
Postponed
13 June'27
- 11:00
Concert Croissant #14
Echoes of Brussels presents, throughout an entire season, the most memorable creations and inhabitants of our capital. Maria Malibran is regarded as one of the great opera singers of the nineteenth century. Following her early death at the age of 28, she became a legend. Her final resting place is in Brussels. Her sister Pauline Viardot was also a singer and enjoyed renown as a composer. Young soprano Gwendoline Blondeel – who was awarded the 2025 Caecilia Prize for Young Musician of the Year – follows in the footsteps of the two sisters together with pianist Marie Datcharry, performing their music alongside works by Rossini, Donizetti and Mozart.
The concert is preceded by an introduction with Klaas Coulembier that takes place at 10am in the Horta Hall. This encounter will be in French and in Dutch.
"Una voce poco fa" (Rosina), extract from Il barbiere di Siviglia
"Vedrai Carino" (Zerlina), from Don Giovanni
"La ci darem la mano", from Don Giovanni (transcription for piano by Georges Bizet)
Il mattino
Bonjour mon cœur, VWV 1072
Hai Luli, VWV 1106
Chant du soir, VWV 1063
Mazourke en do mineur, VWV 3012 (for solo piano)
Prendi per me sei libero
Don Pasquale: Overture (for solo piano )
"L’annello mio… Ah non credea… Ah non giunge" (Amina), from La sonnambula
Practical information
Dates
Location
Henry Le Boeuf Hall
Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELSHaven’t had breakfast yet? The bar by Bozar Café Victor in the Horta Hall opens at 10 am and serves pastries, as well as hot and cold drinks.
Without interval
