{"id":8562,"date":"2022-11-29T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2022-11-29T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T14:16:08","slug":"siyabonga-maqungo-in-madrid-for-mendelssohns-elias-under-david-afkham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/siyabonga-maqungo-in-madrid-for-mendelssohns-elias-under-david-afkham\/","title":{"rendered":"Siyabonga Maqungo in Madrid for Mendelssohn\u2019s \u201cElias\u201d under David Afkham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">South African tenor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/siyabonga-maqungo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Siyabonga Maqungo<\/strong><\/a> goes from strength to strength; in Berlin, at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, he just sang the part of Vitaliano in Vivaldi\u2019s \u201cIl Giustino\u201d under Ren\u00e9 Jacobs to great acclaim. For his next endeavour, Mr. Maqungo has chosen a concert with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de Espa\u00f1a under conductor David Afkham, a concert which features Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy\u2019s oratorio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auditorionacional.mcu.es\/es\/programacion\/concierto-ocne-sinfonico-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cElias\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In addition to the continuing run of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.staatsoper-berlin.de\/de\/veranstaltungen\/il-giustino.11043\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cIl Giustino\u201d<\/a>, Siyabonga Maqungo also performs as Tamino in Mozart\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.staatsoper-berlin.de\/de\/veranstaltungen\/die-zauberfloete-everding.15\/#event-59432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Magic Flute\u201d<\/a>, a role that Mozart might have written expressly for Mr. Maqungo, had they been contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de Espa\u00f1a<\/strong><br \/>\nFelix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.auditorionacional.mcu.es\/es\/programacion\/concierto-ocne-sinfonico-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cElias\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/siyabonga-maqungo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Siyabonga Maqungo<\/a>: tenor<br \/>\n<strong>Dec 16, 17, 18.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African tenor\u00a0Siyabonga Maqungo goes from strength to strength; in Berlin, at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, he just sang\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2022"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}