New Year Gala Concert

featuring Julia Gertseva

and Boris Pinkhasovich

By tradition, the New Year concert will be conducted by the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s Principal Guest Conductor Vasily Petrenko. The maestro has chosen the intoxicating melodies of Johann Strauss — excerpts from operettas and popular waltzes, which another Austrian composer, Richard Strauss, called ‘the love potions of Vienna’. Richard Strauss’s own music will also be performed: the suite from the opera Der Rosenkavalier — a captivating, languorous work that is, at the same time, full of sparkling humour — will add colour to the New Year’s Eve atmosphere. And, of course, the programme will include some musical surprises.

Part I

Johann Strauss, Jr.
Overture from the operetta The Bat

Johann Strauss, Jr.
Prince Orlovsky Couplets from the operetta The Bat
Performed by Julia Gertseva

Carl Maria von Weber
Invitation to the Dance

Johann Strauss, Jr.
Sándor Barinkay’s aria from the operetta The Gypsy Baron
Performed by Boris Pinkhasovich

Johann Strauss, Jr.
By the Beautiful Blue Danube

Part II

Johann Strauss, Jr.
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Imre Kálmán
Aria of Mister X from the operetta The Circus Princess

Monty Norman
The James Bond Theme

Richard Strauss
Morning
Performed by Julia Gertseva

Richard Strauss
Waltz Suite from the opera The Knight of the Rose
Arranged by Artur Rodziński, 1944

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