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
The Legend (opera) The Legend (opera) The Legend is a one-act tragic opera composed by Joseph Carl Breil to an English libretto by Jacques Byrne. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on March 12, 1919 in a triple bill with two other one-act operas, John Hugo's "The Temple Dancer" and Charles Cadman's "Shanewis". Its melodramatic story is set in Muscovadia, a mythical country in the Balkans, and involves an impoverished nobleman turned bandit, his daughter Carmelita, and her lover Stephen, a captain in the hussars. The action unfolds over a single night at the end of which both lovers