The XXXIII International Opera Festival named after F.I. Shalyapin to take place on the stage M.Jalil Tatar Academic State Opera Ballet from February 1 to 17, 2015
The XXXIII International Opera Festival named after F.I. Shalyapin will take place on the stage of M. Jalil Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet from February 1 to 17, 2015. On the opening day of the festival, February 1, celebrations to mark the 140th anniversary of Kazan Opera are to be held.
The XXXIII F.I. Shaliapin Festival program will make up best performances by M. Jalil TASTOandB of recent years - the opera "Turandot", "Evgeni Onegin", "Rigoletto", "Aida", "La Traviata," "Carmen," "Madame Butterfly", "The Barber of Seville ". The program includes the premiere of the season - the opera "L'elisir d'amore". On the day of the birth of Fyodor Shaliapin, the opera "Boris Godunov" will sound on the scene. Anticipated event will be a concert performance of Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess". The festival traditionally to be completed by two gala concerts, in which the opera stars of world renown take part.
Opera Forum retains its concept of "festival voices" - the main party in all the plays is performed by guest soloists from Russia, Europe and the United States. Among them are masters of world opera Albina Shagimuratova (M. Jalil TASTOB; Metropolitan Opera), Mikhail Svetlov - Krutikov (Metropolitan Opera), Mikhail Kazakov, Agunda Kulaeva, Alexey Tikhomirov, Andrei Grigoriev (Bolshoi Theatre of Russia), Elena Maximova (Vienna state Opera), Basil Ladyuk, Alexei Tatarintcev, Alexander Saulsky-Shulyatyeva, Oleg Didenko (Moscow Novaya Opera n.a. E.V.Kolobov), Boris Statsenko, Miriam Clark, Sisheng Yee, George Oniani, Pavel Kudinov (Germany), Derrick Lawrence, Lester Lynch, Neil Nelson, Indra Thomas, Celia Sotomayor (USA), Ronald Summ (UK), Susanna Branquini, Dario di Vietri, Annunziata Vestri (Italy), Katerina Goncharova Oksana Shilova, Larisa Shevchenko, Ahmed Haggadah, Vladimir Moroz Victoria Yarivaya, Ekaterina Sergeyeva, Sergey Skorohodov (Mariinsky Theatre), Jannat Baktay, the winner of the show "Big Opera" on the TV channel "Russia-Culture" Saltanat Akhmetova (Astana Opera), Oksana Kramareva, Sergei Kovnir (National Opera of Ukraine n.a.T .Shevchenko), Yevgeny Afanasyev (Moscow Musical Theatre n.a. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko), Dmitry Ovchinnikov (Helikon-opera), Artem Golubev (Primorsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet) and others.
Troupe of Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater will presented by Mikhail Kazakov, Albina Shagimuratova, Venera Protasova, Yuri Ivshin, Oleg Machin, Svetlana Smirnova, Gulnora Gatina, Yuri Petrov, Zoe Tsererina et al., As well as artists of the choir, orchestra, ballet theater. The conductors to be performed by such conductors as Renat Salavatov (TASTOB n.a. M.Dzhalilya), Marco Boemi, Stefano Romani (Italy), Vincent de Kort (Netherlands), Alla Moskalenko (Ukraine), Vasily Valitov (Moscow Novaya Opera Theatre them. E.V.Kolobov).
The XXXIII International Opera Festival n.a. F.I. Shalyapin is supported by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan.
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