16.10.2012
A Season of Enchanting Voices
This season, the Jaani Kirik Estonian Cultural Centre is hosting a series of concerts featuring the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s leading opera soloists. The programmes for these vocal evenings have been compiled in such a way as to include both widely known and rarely performed works. The first two concerts — in November and December — will transport the audience from the chill of St. Petersburg to bewitching Vienna. The January concert will mark the 140th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth. The spring concerts will, in all probability, have an Italian flavour.
The first concert in the series will be on 6 November: the programme, entitled ‘Serious and Non-Serious Vienna’, will feature the different faces of the musical capital of Europe. The exquisite melodies of Richard Strauss and popular arias from Johann Strauss the Younger’s Die Fledermaus are a bold combination that will require the performers to demonstrate maximum artistry and taste. The singers taking part in the first half of the concert will be Tatiana Ryaguzova, Svetlana Moskalenko, and Sofia Fainberg. Of particular note will be their performance of the closing trio and finale of Richard Strauss’s famous opera Der Rosenkavalier, which is not included in the current repertoire of any theatre in St. Petersburg. In the second part, when Die Fledermaus takes centre stage, the singers will be joined by Boris Pinkhasovich, Yury Monchak, and Evgeny Akhmedov.
The second concert in the series, scheduled for 27 December, will be devoted entirely to Viennese operettas. The featured composers will be Franz Lehár (excerpts from The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles, Dance of the Dragonflies, Giuditta, and Frasquita), and Imre Kálmán (The Circus Princess, Paris in Spring, The Devil’s Rider, Silva, and Maritza). The operettas will be performed by leading soloists from the Mikhailovsky Theatre, including Natalia Mironova, Marina Tregubovich, Fyodor Ataskevich, Evgeny Akhmedov, and Boris Pinkhasovich.
A concert consisting of works by Sergei Rachmaninoff to mark the 140th anniversary of the composer’s birth will take place on 17 January. Natalia Mironova and Boris Pinkhasovich will sing romances and operatic arias by Rachmaninoff.
The chance to hear their favourite singers performing a new repertoire will come as a real treat for connoisseurs of vocal music. Equally important is the fact that the concerts will take place in a hall with superb acoustics; music-lovers have rated the church in Ulitsa Dekabristov very highly in this regard. Mikhailovsky Theatre soloists first appeared in Jaani Kirik in early summer, in a concert dedicated to Georg Ots. Three leading baritones — Nikolay Kopylov, Boris Pinkhasovich, and Andrey Zhilikhovsky — and the coloratura soprano Natalia Mironova performed works from the repertoire of the legendary and universally loved Estonian singer. The success of the concert exceeded all expectations.
Tickets for the concerts by soloists of the Mikhailovsky Theatre Opera at the Jaani Kirik Estonian Cultural Centre can be purchased at the Mikhailovsky Theatre box office, at the concert hall, or in the city’s theatre booking offices. In a few days’ time, tickets will also be available via the Mikhailovsky Theatre website (www.mikhailovsky.ru).
The first concert in the series will be on 6 November: the programme, entitled ‘Serious and Non-Serious Vienna’, will feature the different faces of the musical capital of Europe. The exquisite melodies of Richard Strauss and popular arias from Johann Strauss the Younger’s Die Fledermaus are a bold combination that will require the performers to demonstrate maximum artistry and taste. The singers taking part in the first half of the concert will be Tatiana Ryaguzova, Svetlana Moskalenko, and Sofia Fainberg. Of particular note will be their performance of the closing trio and finale of Richard Strauss’s famous opera Der Rosenkavalier, which is not included in the current repertoire of any theatre in St. Petersburg. In the second part, when Die Fledermaus takes centre stage, the singers will be joined by Boris Pinkhasovich, Yury Monchak, and Evgeny Akhmedov.
The second concert in the series, scheduled for 27 December, will be devoted entirely to Viennese operettas. The featured composers will be Franz Lehár (excerpts from The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles, Dance of the Dragonflies, Giuditta, and Frasquita), and Imre Kálmán (The Circus Princess, Paris in Spring, The Devil’s Rider, Silva, and Maritza). The operettas will be performed by leading soloists from the Mikhailovsky Theatre, including Natalia Mironova, Marina Tregubovich, Fyodor Ataskevich, Evgeny Akhmedov, and Boris Pinkhasovich.
A concert consisting of works by Sergei Rachmaninoff to mark the 140th anniversary of the composer’s birth will take place on 17 January. Natalia Mironova and Boris Pinkhasovich will sing romances and operatic arias by Rachmaninoff.
The chance to hear their favourite singers performing a new repertoire will come as a real treat for connoisseurs of vocal music. Equally important is the fact that the concerts will take place in a hall with superb acoustics; music-lovers have rated the church in Ulitsa Dekabristov very highly in this regard. Mikhailovsky Theatre soloists first appeared in Jaani Kirik in early summer, in a concert dedicated to Georg Ots. Three leading baritones — Nikolay Kopylov, Boris Pinkhasovich, and Andrey Zhilikhovsky — and the coloratura soprano Natalia Mironova performed works from the repertoire of the legendary and universally loved Estonian singer. The success of the concert exceeded all expectations.
Tickets for the concerts by soloists of the Mikhailovsky Theatre Opera at the Jaani Kirik Estonian Cultural Centre can be purchased at the Mikhailovsky Theatre box office, at the concert hall, or in the city’s theatre booking offices. In a few days’ time, tickets will also be available via the Mikhailovsky Theatre website (www.mikhailovsky.ru).
