Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades will be performed by invited musicians: soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre Anna Nechaeva (soprano), soloist of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Alexei Zelenkov (baritone), and Dmitri Yurovsky, music director and chief conductor of the latter theatre.

The performance will take place on April 17th. Anna Nechaeva will perform the part of Liza, which she has many a time sung on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. She graduated from the Saratov Conservatory, was a soloist of the St. Petersburg Opera, the Mikhailovsky Theatre, and made her debut at the Bolshoi as Nastasya of Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress in 2012. Anna also sings the roles of Tatiana and Iolanta in Pyotr Ilyich's operas Eugene Onegin and Iolanta.

Alexei Zelenkov will perform the part of Tomsky in The Queen of Spades. This role helped the singer win the Onegin National Opera Prize in 2017. Zelenkov graduated from the Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory (class of D.A. Suslov) in 2015. He joined the company of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre a year earlier. Over the years, he has performed more than 20 leading baritone parts in operas by Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Rachmaninov.

Dmitri Yurovski - the youngest member of the famous musical dynasty - was a successful cellist at the beginning of his musical career. In 2003, he began studying conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Higher School of Music) in Berlin.
 And he achieved success in conducting, too: he performed as an opera and symphony conductor in leading theatres of Europe and the American continent. Dmitri often participates in various projects of Russian theatres, as well. In the autumn of 2015, Yurovsky became Chief Conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.

“Conducting is a profession in which you discover yourself, and which you keep discovering until the end of your life. I have the opportunity to observe my senior colleagues in my own family. I see my brother (Vladimir Yurovsky, Artistic Director of the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Orchestra), who is seven years older than me, but he began to study conducting art much earlier; at the age of twenty, he was already conducting. The thing is that he’s been following the occupation fifteen years longer than me. And at the same time, the father, seventy-five years old, does not even think about sparing himself, about working less. On the contrary! When I talk to him, I find out that he still continues to discover new dimensions in some works. This is encouraging: in any case, my profession will be with me until the end,” said Dmitri Yurovsky in an interview with the Music Life media.