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Joseph Calleja

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Summer Night Festival! Grafenegg Music Festival Midsummer Night Gala Concert 2018 by the Tonkünstler Orchestra led by Yutaka SadoThe Grafenegg International Music Festival takes place in St. Pölten, home of the Tonkünstler Orchestra.Since 2015, the orchestra's music director Yutaka Sado has also made an appearance at this spectacular music festival! This video was shot in June 2018. This video shows the live performance of the opening gala concert held in June 2018, which featured works by Bernstein, with whom Yutaka Sado has close ties, on the centennial of his birth, and Rossini, 150 years after his death, with a splendid lineup of soloists. Joseph Kaleya, a tenor singer from Malta with a lustrous and lyrical voice. The South African soprano Priti Jende, who is currently flying off the shelves, and the Dutch cellist Piete Jende, a rising star. The festival opens with the rising star cellist Harriet Krieff from the Netherlands. The festival concluded with Elgar's "Dignity" as an encore and a fireworks display. King International