Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni will draw a line under the 44th creative season of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre. The Theatre will present this production along with the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Art Development Fund on July 12 and 13.

During these two nights, the guests of the theatre will enjoy a real social event: favourite characters of various productions in their costumes, photography sessions with ballet and opera artists, red carpets, sparkling drinks. The audience will freshen memory about the premieres of the season: Cesare Pugni's ballet Catarina ou La Fille du Bandit, operas Lakme by Leo Delibes, Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Pietro Mascagni's Zanetto, Eugenia Teryokhina's music fairy tale The Blue Bird, concert-performance Moulin Rouge in the format of an art cafe.

But the highlight of the night, of course, will be the opera Don Giovanni that premiered with a resounding success on the stage of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on October 21, 2021 - it became one of the most spectacular events of the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Festival. Artistic Director of the Festival Anton Levakhin put together an international team to create the production: music director and conductor - Peter Feranec (Slovakia), production director - Michael Sturminger (Austria), assistant conductor and accompanist Christian Koch (Austria), set designers and costume designers - Renate Martin (Germany) and Andreas Donhauser (Austria), lighting designer - AJ Weissbard (USA), artist and designer of the picturesque curtain - Akhsar Muriyev (Russia).

On July 12 and 13, maestro Christian Koch will take the conductor’s stand. Soloists of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre will take the stage: Sevastian Martyniuk and Denis Grechishkin (as Don Giovanni), Eugeny Sevastianov and Sergei Telenkov (as Leporello), Anna Avakyan (as Donna Anna), Aliona Babivskaya and Daria Ryabinko (as Donna Elvira), Valentin Kolesnikov (as Don Ottavio), Alexey Sokolov (as Masetto), Alexandra Cherpakova and Violetta Grishko (as Zerlina), Vladimir Alexandrovich and Sergei Samusev (as Il Commendatore). In addition, guest soloists will perform in the production: Maria Motolygina (as Donna Anna, July 12), Alexander Nesterenko (as Don Ottavio, July 12), and Rauf Timergazin (as Masetto, July 13); they also took part in the premiere shows of Don Giovanni.

On July 27, this Mozart’s masterpiece will open the tour of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on the Historical Stage of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. The tour is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Dmitri Hvorostovsky. The large-scale federal project Big Tours supported by the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Region A.V. Uss and the regional government made this event possible. Big Tours are held by the Federal State Educational Institution of Culture ROSKONTSERT according to the Russian Concert-Touring Plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

On July 29 and 30, the ballet Catarina ou La Fille du Bandit by Cesare Pugni will be presented on the Historical Stage. On July 30 and August 1, the opera Lakme by Leo Delibes will complete the tour on the New Stage. Thus, the Moscow spectators and guests of the Russian capital will be able to get acquainted with the best productions of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.