Today tickets will be on sale for the performances of the 36th Shalyapin Festival in Kazan

15 December 2017, Friday

From  February 1 to 22, 2018 on the stage of the Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Jalil   XXXVI International Opera Festival named after F.I. Shalyapin will be held dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the birth of the great bass. The program of the festival will consist of 13 performances and concerts with the participation of the stars of the world and Russian opera scene.

The festival will open with the premiere - opera "Nabucco" by G. Verdi in the production of Yefim Meisel (February 1, 2). G.Verdi, according to tradition, will become the most performed  composer of the festival - the poster includes five of his masterpieces, in addition to Nabucco, it is Rigoletto (February 4), Traviata (February 7), Aida (February 9) and Troubadour (12th of February). On February 6, the concert performance of G. Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" will take place with the participation of singers from the United States and Great Britain. On the birthday of Fyodor Chaliapin, according to tradition, the "folk musical drama" of Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky (February 13) will be shown. Another opera of the Russian composer - "The Queen of Spades" by P. Tchaikovsky - will be held on February 16. The program also includes the comic opera "The Barber of Seville" by J. Rossini (February 10) and the tragic "Turandot" by G. Puccini (February 19).

The program of the festival will be completed with Gala concerts with the participation of soloists of the Bolshoi, Mariinsky theaters, the Moscow Theater of the Novaya Opera named after E.V. Kolobov, theaters in Yekaterinburg, Kiev and TAGTOiB named after M.Jalil.

The cost of tickets for the performances of the festival is from 500 to 2500 rubles, for gala-concerts - from 800 to 3500 rubles. Tickets will be available at the theater ticket office (231-57-10, working hours - daily from 10.00 to 19.00), as well as on the site of Kassir.ru and the Public Services Portal of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The full poster of the festival is published on the official website of TAGTOiB named after M. Jalil kazan-opera.ru.

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