Sokolin Asllani Explained
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Sokolin Aslla |
Birth Place: | Fushё-Arrez, Albania |
Sokolin Asllani (born in Fushё-Arrez)[1] is an Albanian opera singer (baritone). He is also an Austrian citizen.
Life
Asllani attended the Prenkё Jakova music high school in Shkodër. He first studied piano and then singing at the University of Arts Tirana,[2] [3] where he graduated in 1998. Later he completed further studies in Vienna with Yevgeny Nesterenko.[4]
After graduating in 1998, he was engaged by the Albanian State Opera in Tirana in the title role in Rossini's Il Signor Bruschino, as well as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and the title role in Don Giovanni.[5] This was followed in 2001 by an appearance in Germany as Orpheus in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. From 2003 to 2006 Asllani was a member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and made his debut at the Zurich Opera House in the 2007/2008 season as Ping in Turandot.[6] In the following season he appeared as Marquis de Posa in Don Carlos at the Hamburg State Opera and as Marcello in La Bohème at the Theater Basel.
Engagements also took him to the Volksoper Wien,[7] the Wiener Kammeroper, the Theater an der Wien as part of the Wiener Festwochen,[8] the Budapest State Opera, the Grand Theatre Poznań[9] and the Heidenheim Opera Festival.
He has performed in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, in the Vienna Konzerthaus as well as in the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto and in the Lincoln Center in New York with the Vienna Mozart Orchestra,[10] [11] [12] [13] in the Kulturpalast in Dresden, in the Svetlantovsky Sal in Moscow, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Symphony Hall Boston, in the Avery Fisher Hall in New York and in the Kimmel Center (Kimmel Cultural Campus) in Philadelphia.
Asllani is involved in the Austria Kultur International project of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and performed there in 2015 as part of a concert series in Shkodra and Tirana together with Mirjam Tola.[14]
Repertoire (selection)
References
- Web site: Österreichische Schule "Peter Mahringer" . 2015-09-22 . Besuch des Sängers Sokolin Asllani . https://web.archive.org/web/20170307233631/http://old.htl-shkoder.com/besuch-des-sangers-sokolin-asllani/ . 2017-03-07 . 2022-05-26 . de .
- Web site: Csák Balázs . Bohémélet: az ünnepek operája - Operaportál . https://web.archive.org/web/20170307233631/http://old.htl-shkoder.com/besuch-des-sangers-sokolin-asllani/ . 2017-03-07 . 2022-02-13 . hu .
- Web site: Dresdner Philharmonie . »Viva la Mamma!" oder "Sitten und Unsitten der Leute vom Theater« Opera buffa in zwei Akten von Gaetano Donizetti . https://web.archive.org/web/20200607073419/https://slub.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A37712/attachment/ATT-0/ . 2020-06-07 . 2022-02-13 . 17 . de . PDV . Programmheft 8. Außerordentliches Konzert Festsaal im Kulturpalast, Juni 2012.
- See https://www.operabase.com/artists/sokolin-asllani-15958/de
- Web site: Sopranoja Miriam Tola dhe baritoni Sokolin Asllani çelin edicionin e IX të Festivalit Ndërkombëtar - Arkiva Shqiptare e Lajmeve . 2022-02-13 . Albanian .
- Web site: Klajdi Musabelliu . 2015-09-17 . Sopranoja Miriam Tola dhe baritoni Sokolin Asllani çelin edicionin e IX të Festivalit Ndërkombëtar . 2022-02-14 . Agjencia Telegrafike Shqiptare . Albanian . Arkiva Shqiptare e Lajmeve.
- Web site: Carmen Volksoper Wien 19. Feb. 2010 bis 2. Mai 2015 . 2022-02-13 . de . Kultur.net.
- Web site: ORF . Verdi: Rigoletto, Theater an der Wien . 2022-02-14 . de .
- Web site: Premiera Don Giovanniego - w Poznaniu . 2022-07-02 . polmic.pl . pl.
- Web site: Wiener Zeitung Online . Konzert 5.5.2010, Musikverein, Großer Saal . 2022-02-14 . de .
- Web site: Tickets und Infos Wiener Konzerthaus Wiener Mozart Orchester - Osterkonzert . 2022-02-14 . de . Kultur.net.
- Web site: La Scena Musicale . This Week in Toronto (Mar. 7 – 13) . https://web.archive.org/web/20210411044435/https://myscena.org/joseph-so/this-week-in-toronto-mar-7-13-4/ . 2021-04-11 . 2022-02-14 . en . myscena.org. See: Vienna Mozart Orchestra
- Web site: Lincoln Center . Viennese Charm with Superb Musicians and Opera Stars! . 2022-02-14 . en .
- Web site: Projektliste weltweit . 2022-02-15 . Austria Kultur International . 105 . de . PDF . Jahrbuch 2015. See: "Albanien (Shkodra und Tirana)".
- Web site: Gekonnte Bauchlandung. Donizettis "Don Pasquale" am Klagenfurter Stadttheater. Der Standard. 2022-02-12. 2005-05-02.
- Web site: Opern-Gaudi nach Kärntner Art. Der Standard. 2022-02-12. 2007-01-02.
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