The musicians of the orchestra of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre continue to fascinate the audience with unique projects of instrumental music. On January 26, the premiere of the concert Transfigured Night will be held in the Theatre’s foyer. The author of the idea is the concertmaster of the cello group of the Theatre’s orchestra Timur Kolodyazhny.

The programme of the concert will feature two masterpieces of the early 20th century: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) by Arnold Schoenberg and Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss, which use expressive musical means to tell about internal struggle and transformation.

Verklärte Nacht is based on a poem by Richard Dehmel: it tells the story of two lovers walking at night under the moonlight. A girl confesses to her boyfriend that she is carrying a child of someone else. The young man first feels anger and jealousy, then he realizes that the child is part of a new life that they can build together. Schoenberg's music reflects this transformation of emotions: it begins with alarming sounds and ends with peaceful melodies symbolizing forgiveness and acceptance.

Strauss's Metamorphosen was written after the end of World War II, when Strauss was mourning his personal losses and seeing the destruction around him. The music expresses his pondering on how everything changes, dies, and is reborn. Metamorphosen uses quotes from other works by Strauss creating the connection between the past and the present.

Why was it decided to combine these very different works into one concert? They are connected by the themes of change, transfiguration, enlightenment. In Transfigured Night, personal drama turns into new hope; in Metamorphosen, life goes through destruction and rebirth.

This complex, vibrant music will be performed by the orchestra's soloists who are already well known to regular visitors of the educational project Orchestra Formula: Dmitri Kosolapov, Tatiana Lavrentieva (violins); Polina Sokur, Aliona Mashnova (violas); Timur Kolodyazhny, Olga Andreeva, Ivan Ansov (cellos); Svetlana Primark (double bass).