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