Between January 21 and April 16, 2023, the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre will host the festival Slovtsov. Postscriptum.

A large-scale music forum is simultaneously dedicated to two newsworthy events. Firstly, this is the 100th anniversary of the creation of the opera troupe in Krasnoyarsk. In 1923, the outstanding Krasnoyarsk tenor, the “Siberian nightingale” Pyotr Slovtsov and his wife Margarita Rioli-Slovtsova created a team of local artists who gave 14 performances during a year. Secondly, the 150th anniversary of Fyodor Chaliapin, an amazing Russian master of the vocal and acting arts. The events of the festival will demonstrate the connections between the creative lives of two great singers and their intersection with the repertoire of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera House.

The festival will open on January 21 with a big premiere: Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera Oprichnik. Fyodor Ivanovich was considered one of the greatest performers of Prince Vyazminsky in this opera. The festival programme will include the following performances of the repertoire of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre: Aida by Giuseppe Verdi (February 4), Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (February 22), Lakme by Leo Delibes (March 26). The heroes of the festival shone on the stages in these operas: Slovtsov - as Gerald in Lakme and Lensky in Eugene Onegin, Chaliapin - as Ramfis in Aida.

One of the brightest events of the festival Slovtsov. Postscriptum will be the Chaliapin-Gala concert (February 15). It’ll present works not only included in the Slovtsov's repertoire but also his favourite music miniatures: famous bass arias from operas, romance art songs, Russian folk songs. Soloists of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Sergei Telenkov, Alexander Mikhaliov, Vladimir Alexandrovich, Valentin Kolesnikov, Denis Grechishkin, Sevastian Martyniuk, Sergei Samusev, Eugeny Sevastianov, Pavel Antsiferov will take part in the concert; bass singers Garry Agadzhanyan and Sergei Sevastianov are invited to participate in it as guest artists. Also, there’ll be an unusual guest at the concert - Georgy Dmitriev, a singing actor of the Pushkin Krasnoyarsk Drama Theatre.

The festival will end with the Slovtsov-Gala concert on April 16; Artistic Director and a conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Dmitri Yurovsky and guest performers - soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre - are expected to take part in it.