Part I

Georges Bizet — Rodion Shchedrin. Fragment from the ballet Carmen Suite

Georges Bizet. Seguidilla from the opera Carmen
Performed by Elena Maksimova

Georges Bizet. José’s aria from the opera Carmen
Performed by Arnold Rutkowski

Pietro Mascagni. Symphonic intermezzo from the opera Cavalleria rusticana

Pietro Mascagni. Turiddu’s aria from the opera Cavalleria rusticana
Performed by Arnold Rutkowski

Gaetano Donizetti. Duet between Adina and Nemorino from the opera L’elisir d’amore
Performed by Natalia Mironova and Boris Stepanov

Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Episode from Scene 4 from the opera The Queen of Spades
Performed by Nina Romanova, Maria Litke, and Fyodor Ataskevich

Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Tomsky’s song from the opera The Queen of Spades
Performed by Nikolay Kopylov

Part II

Giacomo Puccini. Symphonic intermezzo Prison. The Journey to Le Havre from the opera Manon Lescaut

George Frideric Handel. Admetus’ aria from the opera Admetus, King of Thessaly
Performed by Elena Makarova

Rodion Shchedrin. Varvara’s couplets from the opera Not Only Love
Performed by Elena Maksimova

Franz Lehár. Duet between Hanna and Danilo from the operetta Die lustige Witwe
Performed by Tatiana Ryaguzova and Arnold Rutkowski

Final duet between Carmen and José from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet
Performed by Elena Maksimova and Arnold Rutkowski

Modest Mussorgsky. The scene of Marfa’s fortune-telling from the opera Khovanshchina
Performed by Elena Maksimova

Modest Mussorgsky. Introduction Dawn over the Moscow River from the opera Khovanshchina