Guests of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre will have the opportunity to take an exciting Round-the-Planet Trip to the World of Tango. The concert premiere will take place on March 30 and 31, as well as on April 7. Opera soloists, ballet dancers and orchestra musicians are going to take part in it. Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Theatre Dmitri Yurovsky will take the conductor’s stand.

This multi-genre programme is the maestro’s original project. Already at the age of 16, he played this music on the cello. The first concert version of the project premiered in 2011 in Belgium; it gradually changed and transformed: vocal and ballet pieces were added while performing in Novosibirsk. In Krasnoyarsk, Round-the-Planet Trip to the World of Tango will become a full-blown theatrical show.

“This production always gave me the feeling of an unfinished performance. I wanted to add more dramatic action to it. Thus, the idea came to do this on behalf of the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla who promoted the tango genre around the world. I turned for advice to Oleg Rybkin, Principal Director of the Pushkin Krasnoyarsk Drama Theatre. He got interested and wanted to be the director of the production himself; he recommended to collaborate with the famous St. Petersburg lighting designer Dmitri Zimenko, winner of the Golden Mask award. An actor from the Pushkin Theatre’s company will perform the role of Piazzola; his name is still a secret. In such a partnership between dramatic and music theatres, I believe that our production will become more versatile. All the creative departments of the opera and ballet theatre and the drama actor are involved, and I haven’t seen any tango music show like this one,” said the author of the idea, programme, and libretto of the concert Dmitri Yurovsky. 

The concert is choreographed by Sofia Raevskaya from Novosibirsk; People's Artist of Russia Anna Zharova is also working on the production as a choreographer and performer. Being a classical ballet dancer, she had to specifically master the basic movements of Argentine tango. 

The programme of the Round-the-Planet Trip to the World of Tango includes such world hits of the genre as La Cumparsita by Gerardo Rodriguez, Por una Cabeza by Carlos Gardel, Tango Jalousie by Jacob Gade, Black Eyes by Oskars Stroks, as well as more exotic works: Turkish tango Papatya Gibisin (You Are Fragile Like a Daisy) by Tanju Okan  and Murasaki - tango in the Japanese style composed by Dmitri Yurovsky. A significant part of the concert surely consists of the works of the leading character of the show - Astor Piazzolla himself. The concert will be concluded with the Argentinean’s most famous work Libertango, in the title of which the author combined the concepts of “tango” and “freedom”.