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  177th seasonTuesday / Feb 9
Famous Brasilian Tenor Thiago Arancam in Cavalleria Rusticana
The opera Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni makes the audience feel the real atmosphere of the Sicilian criminal drama. Melodically rich and vivid music turns the dark story of love, betrayal and murder into an operatic masterpiece. It was not by chance that Francis Ford Coppola used the music from the opera for his thriller film The Godfather. The opera by Mascagni was staged at the Mikhailovsky Theatre by another famous film director Liliana Cavani, the producer of the famous film The Night Porter. The idea of producing the opera at the Mikhailovsky Theatre belonged to the great Russian opera singer Elena Obraztsova, who is believed to be the best Santuzza ever. On February, 9 the role of Santuzza is to be performed by the Kiev-based opera singer Lyudmila Monastyrskaya, the role of Turiddu is to be sung by the young Italian-Brazilian lirico spinto tenor Thiago Arancam. He was the first-ever Brasilian accepted into the famous Accademia associated with the world-famous Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He received, in Bolzano, the prestigious award for the best emergent young voice 2007/2008, and won three prizes at Operalia 2008.

 

 Premiere of the opera
La Juive
February 18, 20 and 26
The Mikhailovsky Theatre turns to the opera that became a cornerstone of the French opera repertoire. La Juive by Jacques François Fromental Halévy is a masterpiece of grand style of the early 19th century. In the productions of the grand style visual effects prevailed over the musical and dramatic logic, however, very soon the trend was conceived as a most convincing implementation of the synthetic nature of musical theatre. The opera combines the elements of lyricism, dramatism and sonority.
La Juive is notable for its brilliant vocal parts and complex ensembles. The production at the Mikhailovsky Theatre by the French stage director Arnaud Bernard and stage designer Herbert Murauer adapts the arresting storyline to modern times.
The unique personality means nothing for the impersonal wheels of state and the opposition is treated taking into account the experience of several generations, who really know the nature of totalitarianism.
The premiere performances will feature guest stars, including María José Siri, Valter Borin and Gian Luca Pasolini.

 

 The Mikhailovsky Theatre starts its Japan Tour
On November 25, the Mikhailovsky starts its Japan Tour. The Theatre has been successfully touring around Japan for twenty years already. The 20th jubilee tour includes both ballet and opera performances: ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, La Bayadére and operas Eugene Onegin and Tosca.
Farukh Ruzimatov is taking part in the tour: he’ll perform the role of Solor in the ballet
La Bayadére.
The Mikhailovsky Theatre also continues the tradition of Christmas chamber concerts for the Japanese audience. Instrumental ensemble and soloists of the Mikhailovsky Theatre will tour around Japan with the concert program Ave Maria.