Janine Kitzen the soprano performed in leading roles in operas, operettes and musicals. For example, she played Bastienne in Mozart's opera "Bastien und Bastienne". In 1998 she won the first prize at the television contest "". After her studies, Kitzen continued performing and played in numerous productions including her role as leading character Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" and, more recently, during the 2010 Monschau Klassik festival as Zerlina in Mozart's "Don Giovanni". Kitzen has made several recordings. Following the television show "Una Voce Particolare", she recorded a CD as part of the quartet Luxus. She introduced
Mateo Falcone (opera) Mateo Falcone (opera) Mateo Falcone ("Матео Фальконе" in Cyrillic; "Mateo Fal'kone" in transliteration) is a one-act opera composed by César Cui during 1906–1907. (Actually, Cui designated the genre of this work as "dramatic scene.") The libretto was adapted by the composer from Prosper Mérimée's like-named story from 1829 and Vasily Zhukovsky's verse rendering thereof. It was premiered on 14 December 1907 (Old Style), at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (the work was given along with the composer's early one-act comic opera, "The Mandarin's Son"). The premiere production of "Mateo" was a failure; the work never became part of the standard