Ildiko Raimondi and Herbert Lippert

Ildikó Raimondi is not only a celebrated singer on the opera stage, but also a well-known Lied interpreter and concert singer. She has been singing at the Vienna State Opera since 1991, where she has sung more than 50 opera roles. Guest appearances have taken her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Zurich Opera House, the Valencia Opera House and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She has also given concerts, radio and TV appearances in many European countries, Japan, New York and Israel, including with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Her engagements at international festivals include the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals, the Wiener Klangbogen, the Wiener Festwochen, the Festival Musica Sacra in Rome, the Edinburgh Festival, the Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch, the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Johann Strauss Music Festival Coburg.
In addition to the classical repertoire and operetta, Ildikó Raimondi is particularly fond of 20th century music (Franz Schmidt, Arnold Schönberg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Egon Wellesz, Ernst Krenek,
Gottfried von Einem and others), as well as contemporary music.

Ildikó Raimondi has recently appeared at the Vienna State Opera as Dame (Cardillac), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Alice (Falstaff), Musetta (La Bohème) and in the world premiere of Iván Eröd's children's opera "Pünktchen und Anton". She sang the Countess (Capriccio) at the Budapest Palace of Arts and made a guest appearance as Arabella at the Hungarian State Opera.
Numerous CD and DVD recordings as well as radio and television recordings document her artistic work.

Ildikó Raimondi is an Austrian chamber singer and integration ambassador. She has been a professor of solo singing at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2015.

Born in Linz, former Viennese choirboy and Grammy award winner Herbert Lippert is one of the most sought-after tenors of our time. The first patrons of his voice were Sir Georg Solti and Wolfgang Sawallisch, under whose direction numerous award-winning recordings were made.

The artist has performed at the most important opera houses and festivals (Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Salzburg Festival), particularly in works by Mozart.

His great successes in the lieder sector include recitals with Wolfgang Sawallisch, Maurizio Pollini and Fabio Luisi. He is currently devoting himself to lieder singing in collaboration with the pianist Eduard Kutrowatz.

Herbert Lippert has recorded over 300 albums with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Franz Welser-Möst, Leopold Hager, Julius Rudel, Riccardo Muti, Fabio Luisi, Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Sir Georg Solti, among others.

Herbert Lippert has been a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble since 1984, where he has sung major tenor roles such as "Lohengrin", "Peter Grimes", "Florestan" and "Eisenstein".

Pavel Kachnov studied in Kiev and continued his education at the Vienna University of Music. He has won prizes at numerous international music competitions and plays at major European music festivals.
He has received great acclaim at the Vienna Musikverein, the Austrian Radio ORF Concert Hall, the Zaragoza Auditorium, in Milan, Turin, Monterrey, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and many more.
Pavel Kachnov also regularly performs as a chamber music partner and accompanist, including with violinist Pavel Vernikov and soprano Krasimira Stoyanova. He has already performed internationally as a soloist with a number of renowned orchestras.
In October 2018, Pavel Kachnov recorded works by F. Liszt. The recording was broadcast twice by ORF.
At the age of just 27, he was appointed professor at the Prayner Conservatory in Vienna.