The new project The Evening will get added to the already impressive list of small-scale events, which take place in the foyer of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.

The opera soloist Natalia Plotnikova and accompanist Natalia Ageeva came up with a project The Evening - cosy and heartfelt, just like meetings with friends. According to their idea, a series of evening concerts will introduce excellent examples of vocal and instrumental chamber music to the guests of the Theatre. Including the rarely performed works that will certainly attract the attention of music fans.

The first concert of the project, called Memories, will feature the vocal cycle The Evening by composer Valery Gavrilin. Many visitors of our Theatre know Gavrilin as the author of the spectacular melodic music for the ballet Anyuta. Now Krasnoyarsk residents will have the opportunity to discover new, no less bright sides of the talent of this interesting composer.

Gavrilin started working on The Evening cycle in 1973. The element of everyday urban romance - unpretentious in melody and text but full of sincere feelings - dominates in this cycle. The composer gave The Evening the sub-title “Recordings from an Old Woman’s Album”. In the process, a two-part cycle was created: its first part was called The Album emphasizing the sub-title. Albums with poems and sensitive notes about personal things were used not only by pre-revolutionary young ladies, but also by young girls of the Soviet period. Gavrilin also came up with the second part of the cycle: he gave it the preliminary title Dances, Letters, Ending; but this work was never completed.

In the concert Memory from The Evening cycle, soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and baritone singers will take the stage: Honoured Artist of Russia Svetlana Ratslaf-Levchuk, Natalia Plotnikova, Andrei Kolobov, and Alexander Mikhaliov, at the piano are Svetlana Mikhaliova and Elena Chepurnaya, production director is Anastasia Kasatkina.