27.12.2012
Vocal Concerts in the Fireplace Hall
In the winter calendar, there is a special time when the excitement and bustle of the holiday season gives way to a period of quiet, peace, and reflection. A series of vocal concerts presented by the Mikhailovsky Theatre in the second half of January will provide the perfect soundtrack for this atmosphere. The concerts will take place in the Fireplace Hall: a homey, intimate chamber music hall that will make audiences feel as if they are simply relaxing and enjoying music with the artists in a mutual friend’s living room.
The Theatre’s leading opera soloists will take part in the vocal concerts, from experienced veterans like Nikolai Kopilov to big-name newcomers with a season or two under their belts. Stars of the vocal evenings will include Natalia Mironova, Marina Tregubovich, Sofia Fainberg, Suren Maksutov, Evgeny Akhmedov, and Boris Pinkhasovich.
The series will include five concerts, opening on 15 January with an evening of ancient romances. From Don’t Go; Stay With Me to Burn, Burn, My Star and Coachman, Do Not Rush The Horses, these melodies, which have been with us since childhood, will warm the hearts of each audience member.
On 16 January, the Theatre will present Romances of Russian Composers and Folk Songs: expressions of a sensitive, restless soul given voice by Pushkin, Delwig, Fet, and Aleksey Tolstoy. The concert on 18 January will be dedicated to late 19th century romances written by Russian composers: Anton Rubinstein, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexander Borodin, and Modest Mussorgsky. On 19 January, two concerts — one in the morning and one in the evening — will feature romances written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The composer often talked about a «kinship between music and poetry», and found inspiration in the poems of his contemporaries: Apukhtin, Plescheev, Mei, and Konstantin Romanov. Another pair of concerts — one in the morning of 20 January and one later that evening — will be dedicated to operetta. The Theatre’s top opera soloists will perform fragments by Johann Strauss II, Charles Lecocq, Franz Lehár, and Emmerich Kalman.
The Theatre’s leading opera soloists will take part in the vocal concerts, from experienced veterans like Nikolai Kopilov to big-name newcomers with a season or two under their belts. Stars of the vocal evenings will include Natalia Mironova, Marina Tregubovich, Sofia Fainberg, Suren Maksutov, Evgeny Akhmedov, and Boris Pinkhasovich.
The series will include five concerts, opening on 15 January with an evening of ancient romances. From Don’t Go; Stay With Me to Burn, Burn, My Star and Coachman, Do Not Rush The Horses, these melodies, which have been with us since childhood, will warm the hearts of each audience member.
On 16 January, the Theatre will present Romances of Russian Composers and Folk Songs: expressions of a sensitive, restless soul given voice by Pushkin, Delwig, Fet, and Aleksey Tolstoy. The concert on 18 January will be dedicated to late 19th century romances written by Russian composers: Anton Rubinstein, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexander Borodin, and Modest Mussorgsky. On 19 January, two concerts — one in the morning and one in the evening — will feature romances written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The composer often talked about a «kinship between music and poetry», and found inspiration in the poems of his contemporaries: Apukhtin, Plescheev, Mei, and Konstantin Romanov. Another pair of concerts — one in the morning of 20 January and one later that evening — will be dedicated to operetta. The Theatre’s top opera soloists will perform fragments by Johann Strauss II, Charles Lecocq, Franz Lehár, and Emmerich Kalman.
