BENJAMIN BERNHEIM & ERMONELA JAHO

BETWEEN FRAGILITY AND DRAMATIC INTENSITY

The Perelada Festival opens its summer edition with an exceptional duo formed by two of today's most compelling operatic voices: soprano Ermonela Jaho and tenor Benjamin Bernheim, accompanied on the piano by Marcos Madrigal.
The programme offers a journey through some of the most significant works of Italian and French opera, conceived not as a succession of arias, but as a path through forms and emotions: from the most restrained delicacy to the most exposed drama. Here, the voice becomes not only an expressive vehicle, but a space where text, music, and dramatic awareness converge.
Ermonela Jaho has made inner intensity and emotional truth the core of her artistry, with a special affinity for the repertoire - verismo and Puccini - where feeling emerges in its most unfiltered form. Benjamin Bernheim, heir to the great French tradition, articulates his singing through the elegance of line, the nobility of timbre, and an exquisite attention to phrasing, allowing him to inhabit the Romantic repertoire with natural ease.
The works by Cilea, Puccini, Verdi, Gounod and Massenet that make up the programme allow these two vocal worlds to enter into dialogue: from the dramatic tension of Tosca or Werther to the melodic fluidity of Adriana Lecouvreur or La rondine. Rather than a contrast, the recital builds a continuity of states, a space where fragility and dramatic intensity coexist and define each other.
An opening that appeals not only to vocal brilliance, but to a way of understanding singing as thought and shared experience, capable of captivating the listener from the very first moment.