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Two weeks after closing their season with a remarkable performance of Peter Boyer鈥檚 moving multimedia work 鈥淓llis Island: The Dream of America,鈥� the ensemble boarded a plane on Thursday to Colombia for the second annual Festival L铆rico SASO and Prol铆rica de Antioquia in Medell铆n.

It鈥檚 Lerner鈥檚 latest music festival, coming 10 years after he started his first one and the International Linus Lerner Vocal Competition in Mexico. The orchestra participated in Mexican festivals for eight years before Lerner launched the Colombian event last year.

Festival Lirico SASO is a collaboration with Colombia鈥檚 Prol铆rica de Antioquia, which Lerner described as a wonderful partner.

The festival鈥檚 highlight will be a fully professional performance of Verdi鈥檚 grand opera featuring an international cast of 200 from Brazil, the United States, Mexico, Peru, Ukraine, Guatemala, Spain and Colombia.

Lerner will lead a combined orchestra that includes 24 SASO members, four guest musicians from 蜜柚直播 and Colombia鈥檚 EAFIT Symphony Orchestra (Escuela de Administraci贸n, Finanzas e Instituto Tecnol贸gico 鈥� School of Administration, Finance and Technological Institute).

Soprano from Guatemala-Italy, a Verdi/Puccini specialist, will perform the title role while Ukrainian tenor is in the role of Radam茅s, which he has done a number of times.

Lerner, in a phone call from Colombia during a rehearsal break Wednesday, compared Kovalchuk to a young Pavarotti.

鈥淗e has a wonderful voice,鈥� he said, and in the background, you could hear Kovalchuk rehearsing a scene with Lazo.

Lerner said he anticipates as many as 5,000 people will see the production over three performances, June 5, 6 and 8 at Medell铆n鈥檚 1,800-seat Teatro Metropolitano. At last year鈥檚 inaugural festival, 3,000 people attended a trio of operas, including Rossini鈥檚 鈥淏arber of Seville鈥� that were performed in three different venues.

SASO is no stranger to international travel. Since Lerner took the podium in 2008, the orchestra has toured China twice and performed more than 20 full-scale operas in Mexico.

SASO also has awarded more than $100,000 in prize money through its vocal competition and helped bring more than half-a-million dollars in institutional partnerships to support artistic and professional growth of emerging vocal talent.