New Year Gala Concert

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.