Star recitals with piano accompainment: Ildar Abdrazakov

This format was made necessary by life. By size, the Ybl Palace is one of the medium-sized opera houses, but in terms of beauty it is first class, which we further enhance by lighting it gorgeously. On its podium, or the top of its orchestra pit, the soloist can stand almost fully surrounded by the audience, and accompanied by our brand new Steinway—and of course an instrumentalist partner—she can give a most memorable recital featuring her favourite opuses for voice as well as her sensitively interpreted opera arias in the second part after the interval.

Although Russian baritone Ildar Abdrazakov is still in his mid-forties, he is already world famous. He has been invited to every major opera house, but he is obviously unable to accept every single invitation. So, it is a privilege that he and his pianist partner Mzia Bakhtouridze regularly performing in La Scala chose us.