The Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre invites its audience to the Italian music festival Bel Canto in Siberia. It’ll take place in Krasnoyarsk between 14 February and 18 March. The guest stars of opera art will come to our theatre’s stage; Italian conductors will take to the conductor’s stand.

The theatre’s team dedicates the Bel Canto in Siberia project to the 440th anniversary of the opera genre: in 1580, a community of musicians and poets Florentine Camerata (a.k.a. Camerata de' Bardi) was created - it included the creators of the first famous operas Daphne and Euridice. We offer the best anniversary opera performances.

The first event of the project will be Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida on February 14. The soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, People's Artist of Russia Irina Dolzhenko will perform  the part of Amneris Irina Igorevna has many a time appeared on the stage of the Krasnoyarsk Opera House in this role. The soloist of Helikon Opera, the laureate of international competitions Stanislav Shvets will take the stage in Krasnoyarsk for the first time as High Priest Ramfis. Our principal singers will debut as the protagonists of the opera: Ksenia Khovanova as Aida and Mikhail Pirogov as Radamès. The Italian conductor Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli is going to conduct the show.

The Bel Canto in Siberia project includes as well the opera Il Trovatore by Verdi. Italian conductor Valeri Simone is a member of the Artistic Commission of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, chairman of the Tuscany Art Regional Choral Committee. On February 27, he’s going to conduct the orchestra of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre during the performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore opera.

On March 6, the conductor of the Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly’s will be Lorenzo Bizzarri from Bologna. He, as a conductor, collaborates with many European orchestras performing mainly Italian music, and also performs as a pianist and vocalist (baritone).

On March 13 and 14, Krasnoyarsk music theatre amateurs will receive a real present - the premiere of the Giuseppe Verdi's opera Un Ballo in Maschera in a semi-stage production by Anastasia Kasatkina. Years ago, Dmitri Hvorostovsky used to shine on performing in this opera. At the conductor’s stand, there’ll be a Russia-born Italian conductor Alexei Nikonov and the chief conductor of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Anatoly Chepurnoy.

A Gala Night is to close the project on March 18. Young vocal stars are going to participate in the concert; they’re finalists of the 9th International Opera Singing Competition Golden Willow 2019 (Salice d’Oro) that was held between August 30 and September 1 in Italy, in the city of Novara. Our theatre was one of the partners of the competition, and it established a prestigious award for the competition’s finalists - a concert in Krasnoyarsk.

Four young singers got the award. They are Larissa Alice Vissel and Caterina Meldolesi from Italy (these singers won as well the first and the second prizes of the competition), as well as Nina Solodovnikova (she was born in Russia, but now lives and studies in Italy) and Qianming Dou from China. They’re going to display their singing skills on the stage of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera House.