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December, 2014

8:00 pm, Sun

Grand Hall

Festival Opening

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor - Yuri Temirkanov
Olga Peretyatko - soprano (festival debut)

Elgar: "Cockaigne" , Concert Overture; Britten: 'Les Illuminations'' for high voice and strings; Elgar: "Enigma", variations on an Original Theme

December, 2014

7:00 pm, Mon

Small Hall

English Poetry

Veniamin Smekhov

William Blake; George Gordon Byron; Robert Burns; Edward Lear; Alan Alexander Milne; Jonathan Swift; Edgar Poe; Walt Whitman; John Gray

December, 2014

7:00 pm, Mon

Grand Hall

Jonas Kaufmann
Recital

Jonas Kaufmann - tenor (Germany); Helmut Deutsch - piano (Austria)

Schumann: Kerner Lieder (excerpts), "Dichterliebe", song cycle; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Liszt: 3 Sonetti del Petrarca

December, 2014

8:00 pm, Tue

Grand Hall

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Excerpts of Musicals

St.Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

Children's choir of TV and radio of St.Petersburg

Artistic director - Stanislav Gribkov

Petersburg Chamber Choir

Artistic director and conducor - Nikolai Kornev

Conductor - Fabio Mastrangelo
Ivan Ozhogin - tenor; Olesya Petrova - mezzo-soprano; Dmitry Voropaev - tenor; Maria Yelizarova - soprano

Lloyd Webber: Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Evita, The Woman in White, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Song and Dance, The Beautiful Game, Aspects of Love, Starlight Express, Whistle Down the Wind, Love Never Dies

Excerpts of musicals

December, 2014

07:00 pm, Tue

Tchaikovsky. "Eugen Onegin"

Mikhailovsky Theatre

December, 2014

07:00 pm, Wed

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Komissarzhevsky Theatre

December, 2014

8:00 pm, Thur

Grand Hall

"Opus Posth" Ensemble

Artistic director - Tatiana Grindenko

Yulia Makaryantz - mezzo-soprano; Anastasia Melnik - soprano; Mikhail Dubov - harpsichord

Purcell: Music for theatre; Manotskov: La Follia; Nyman: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings

December, 2014

8:00 pm, Fri

Grand Hall

The Philharmonics Ensemble (Austria)

The Philharmonics (Austria)

Strauss: Csárdás from Die Fledermaus; Godár: Lullaby; Bottesini: «Nel cor più non mi sento»; Jobim: Quiet Nights; Sting: Englishman in New York; Verdi-Bossi: Rigoletto-Fantasy; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen; Kovach: Barmitzvah-Suit; Weill: Mack The Knife; Gardel: «Por una cabeza»; Bazzini: La Ronde des Lutins

December, 2014

7:00 pm, Sat

Small Hall

Royal Giraffe visual theatre and 4'33'' ensemble presents
Carnival of powers: theatre and music Avantgarde music and whiteface clownery

Alexei Aigui - composer and soloist (violin); Stanislav Warkki - Artistic director of Royal Giraffe theatre (Estonia)

December, 2014

8:00 pm, Sat

Grand Hall

Holst "The Planets"

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Concert Choir of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture

Rimsky-Korsakov State Musical College Female choir

Artistic director - Sergey Ekimov

Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Alexander Rudin - cello

Elgar: Cello Concerto; Holst: The Planets, orchestral suite

December, 2014

3:00 pm, Sun

Grand Hall

The Snowman

St.Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

Conductor - Simon Chalk (UK)

Alexei Yemelyanov - presenter; Egor Maksimov - descant

Christmas music (Tchaikovsky, Rebikov, Korngold); Howard Blake: The Snowman, music from cartoon (with a demonstration of animated film on the screen)

December, 2014

8:00 pm, Sun

Grand Hall

Schubert. «Winterreise»

Ian Bostridge - tenor (UK); Julius Drake - piano (UK)