The Russian opera festival Slovtsov. Postscriptum started on the stage of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on January 21 and will end with a large-scale concert Slovtsov Gala on April 16, 2023. Music director and conductor of the concert will be Mikhail Tatarnikov.

The invited maestro is a graduate of the Faculty of Opera and Symphony Conducting of the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory. In 2006, he made his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre conducting the ballet Metaphysics based on the Sergei Prokofiev's Second Symphony. He has conducted more than forty operas at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Between 2012 and 2018, Mikhail Tatarnikov was music director and chief conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre where he presented a number of premiere performances, symphony programmes, and concert performances of operas. He is currently a guest conductor at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, as well as in a large number of European theatres and the New York Metropolitan Opera. As a conductor, Mikhail Tatarnikov collaborated with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the best foreign bands, instrumentalists, and vocalists.

Since 2020, Mikhail Tatarnikov has been artistic director of international music festivals in the Château de Valrose (Nice, Côte d'Azur, France) and San Marino. He’s production conductor of the operas Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten at the Mikhailovsky Theatre (the Russian premiere), The Demon by Anton Rubinstein at the Liceu Theatre (Spain), Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini at the Berlin State Opera, The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Paris Opera, Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns in a concert performance on the stage of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky and The Gambler by Sergei Prokofiev at the Monte Carlo Opera, and others. In August 2020, he performed at the 100th Salzburg Festival.

We’d like to add that guest vocalists will also take the stage during the Slovtsov Gala on April 16: Anastasia Lepeshinskaya (The New Opera Theatre, Moscow), Kristina Gontsa (The Mariinsky Theatre), Garry Agadzhanyan (The Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre). All three of them have already performed on our stage: Garry took part in the festival Stars Parade at the Opera and concert Chaliapin Gala, Anastasia and Christina were members of the opera company. Anastasia and Christina also belong to the Krasnoyarsk vocal school: they both graduated from the Hvorostovsky Siberian Institute of Arts.