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19:00 | "Russian Winter" Arts Festival. Vasily Ladyuk's Opera Live Festival |
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 Closing Concert of Vasily Ladyuk's Opera Live Festival. Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Andrey Lebedev. Vasily Ladyuk (baritone), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass), Irina Lungu (soprano), Sergey Romanovsky (tenor) and Grand Choir “Masters of Choral Singing” will perform Gounod's Opera "Faust" in concert performance. Grand choir was founded in 1928, its founder and first artistic director was a master of choral art A.V.Sveshnikov. At various times, he was guided by such great musicians as N.S.Golovanov, I.M.Kuvykin, K.B.Ptitsa, L.V.Ermakova. In 2005, the Grand Choir (known as the «Masters of Choral Singing») for the post of artistic director was invited by the People’s Artist of Russia, Professor Lev Kontorovich. Under his leadership, the updated composition of the choir successfully continues the traditions established by their predecessors. The name itself — «Masters of Choral Singing» — determined the professionalism, high level of performance, exceptional speed and versatility of the team, where each artist can act as a member of the choir and as a soloist. For 85 years, the choir performed more than 5,000 works — operas, oratorios, cantatas Russian and foreign composers, works a’cappella, folk songs and sacred music. Many of them were the «golden fund» of the national record, gained recognition abroad (Grand Prix competition of recordings in Paris, the «Gold Medal» in Valencia). In the performance of a large choir were first heard many choral works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Shchedrin, Aram Khachaturian, O.Taktakishvili, V.Agafonnikova, Yu.Evgrafova etc. Charles Gounod’ Faust after the Goethe tragedy enjoys pride of place among the operas that captured Russian hearts back in the 19th century. The opera almost immediately gained popularity in Russia. The Bolshoi Theatre staged the first version in 1866, just seven years after the Paris premiere. Faust is quite literally part of Russian and Moscow opera culture. Among the exited admirers of this piece was a young doctor who later became a famous writer and playwright, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940). Gounod’s opera is a recurrent character in Bulgakov’s work, and it is mentioned in the novel Master and Margarita.
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19:00 | Gala Concert of Nino Rota |
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 Symphony Orchestra of Radio "Orpheus", Conductor Marcello Rota together with the Children's Choir of the Bolshoi Theatre will perform Nino Rota's film works with great directors: Fellini, Zeffirelli and Visconti, as well as the famous symphonic suite from "The Godfather" FF Kopolo. Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto.
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19:00 | Peter Laul (piano). Ludwig van Beethoven |
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 Peter Laul will perform Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2; Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique"); Sonata No. 19 in g minor, Op. 49 No. 1; Sonata No. 20 in g major, Op. 49 No. 2; Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 ("Aurora") of Beethoven. Piano sonatas by Beethoven – the most valuable part of the heritage of the composer. Volume cycle of the 32 sonatas covers the period from 1794 to 1822-th year, and is a chronicle of the spiritual life of the author. A cycle of seven concerts performed by the St Petersburg pianist Peter Laul – a kind of artistic feat of the artist. It was first presented in St.-Petersburg Philharmonic society in the season of 2014/2015. Peter Laul is a versatile, bright pianist. Received education at the secondary special music school-Lyceum under St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of Professor Alexander Sandler, under whose guidance she continued her education in the St. Petersburg Conservatory and postgraduate study. Since 2002 he is a special piano class at the Conservatory and the school-Lyceum, 2015 — associate Professor of the Conservatory. Laureate of international competitions in Bremen (Germany, 1995, III prize and special prize for the best performance of Bach; 1997, first prize and special prize for best performance of a Schubert Sonata) and the competition of a name of Skryabin in Moscow (2000, first prize). He also performs solo concerts in the halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the concert halls of Moscow Conservatory, Concert hall of the Mariinsky theatre, the Concert hall named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, the Louvre, the Orsay Museum, the theaters of Chatelet and de La Ville (Paris), Steinway hall and Lincoln center (new York), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Vredenbourg (Utrecht), DieGlocke (Bremen), Casino (Basel), LeCorum (Montpellier), OperaCityHall (Tokyo), Theatre LaMonnaie (Brussels), Verdi Hall (Milan), Opera Garnier (Monaco), Lyon Opera, and the Hall of molière (Lyon, France) and many other halls of Russia, Germany, great Britain, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Turkey, USA, Brazil and Japan.
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