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2016
12
February
Svetlana Moskalenko will sing the parts of Norina and the Queen of the Night in the upcoming premières of Don Pasquale and Die Zauberflöte.
2015
29
December
Shortly before the New Year and Christmas holidays Neil Shicoff, Artistic Director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre Opera Company, gave an interview to Pavel Ryzhkov from NTV.
23
June
People’s Artist of Russia Nikolay Kopylov celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday on 27 June. On the day before this milestone, he will take the stage for a performance of the opera Tosca, playing Baron Scarpia, one of his best-loved roles. On the eve of his performance, Kopylov discussed his views on life, his favourite roles and his faith in the new generation of singers.
25
May
On 14 June, Dmitri Jurowski will conduct the Mikhailovsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra in a concert programme marking the 175th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. During preparations for the event, maestro and member of the legendary Jurowski musical dynasty, Dmitri Jurowski, discussed the evening’s programme, as well as his own personal feelings towards the great Russian composer.
09
February
On 11 February the Mikhailovsky Theatre soloist Alexander Kuznetsov will debut in the title role of Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer.
2014
11
November
From Nov 11–23, the David H. Koch Theater (at Lincoln Center) offers New Yorkers a rare treat: a season of Russia's Mikhailovsky Ballet.
06
November
Maria Litke, a soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, has won the International Vocal Competition in Ningbo, a contest supported by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China.
01
October
Jürgen Flimm, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Staatsoper (Berlin), is currently spending almost every minute of the day in the rehearsal room, where work on Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut is underway. During a short break, the well-known director described the kinds of transformations which the famous Abbé Prévost story, on which the libretto is based, has undergone.
08
September
The debut of Friedemann Vogel, the famous German dancer, on the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s stage is set to be one of the highlights of the Ballet. High Season festival.
04
June
The opera season at the Mikhailovsky Theatre will close with a première staged by Vasily Barkhatov: the Artistic Director of the Mikhailovsky Opera is preparing his own version of Eugene Onegin.
14
April
Tatiana Legat, Honoured Artist of Russia and répétiteur at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, is celebrating her birthday. Representing a legendary dynasty in the world of ballet, she embodies the unbroken connection between modern theatre and the traditions of the imperial stage. Tatiana gave an interview to Izvestia.
2013
07
October
The celebrated French set designer Jerome Kaplan is joining Nacho Duato to work on a new production of The Nutcracker. A true Parisian, he brings a ‘family nostalgia’ for Russian culture to his sets and costumes for ballet.
