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 Soloists, choir and orchestra of the Kolobov "Novaya Opera" Theatre will perform fragments from all Giuseppe Verdi's operas. Conductor - Vasily Valitov. The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, one of the youngest musical theatres in Russia, born concurrently with the New Russia, was founded in 1991 on the initiative of prominent Russian conductor Evgeny Kolobov (1946–2003) and the then chief of the Moscow city administration, Yuri Luzhkov. When creating the theatre, Evgeny Kolobov was 45 and by that time he had worked in some of the USSR’s largest theatres, including the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre where he had been artistic director. For almost fifteen years the Novaya Opera was an outstanding author’s theatre and, moreover, a conductor’s theatre. Evgeny Kolobov’s artistic principles, his uncompromising stand in art and his team of like-minded colleagues made the theatre very popular with the public. The two most important and often converging directions in the repertoire were, on the one hand, the opening of the classical legacy’s unknown pages (the Novaya Opera staged the first Russian productions of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Catalani’s La Wally, Verdi’s I due Foscari, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov in the composer’s original version, and Thomas’ Hamlet) and, on the other hand, Evgeny Kolobov’s original versions of popular operatic masterpieces (Verdi’s La Traviata and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin).
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