The international festival Stars Parade at the Opera. Slovtsov will open on 31 January with its traditional Parade of Tenors. Joining the soloists of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on stage will be South Korean tenor singer Son Ji-hoon along with the singers from Moscow Ivan Gyngazov and Kirill Matveev.

Son Ji-hoon is a prizewinner of numerous prestigious international competitions including the 17th International Tchaikovsky Competition (2023), where he won First Prize and the Gold Medal. A native of Seoul, he is a graduate of the Korea National University of Arts, the August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy, and the Munich University of Music and Theatre. He has appeared on leading opera stages around the world and made his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2023. In Krasnoyarsk, Son Ji-hoon will showcase his vocal mastery in virtuosic arias from Gaetano Donizetti’s bel canto operas Lucia di Lammermoor and L’Elisir d’Amore.

Ivan Gyngazov, a graduate of the Novosibirsk Conservatory, is a leading soloist of the Moscow Helikon Opera and a frequent guest artist at the Mariinsky Theatre, the Mikhailovsky Theatre, and the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. Krasnoyarsk audiences know him from his performances as Prince Calaf in Puccini’s Turandot, Radamès in Verdi’s Aida, and Andrei Morozov in Tchaikovsky’s The Oprichnik. At the Stars Parade, Gyngazov will perform Lohengrin’s Narration from Wagner’s Lohengrin and Hermann’s arioso What Is Our Life? A Game! from Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades.

Kirill Matveev graduated from the Mussorgsky Ural State Conservatory in 2014 and previously sang with the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. Since 2018, he has been a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, where his repertoire includes both Russian and European operas, among them Puccini’s Tosca. For the Siberian audience, he'll present Cavaradossi’s aria from Tosca.

The guest artists will also perform duets with soloists of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. Honoured Artists of Buryatia Mikhail Pirogov and Mergen Sandanov will take the stage, as well as Valentin Kolesnikov, Kirill Pankevich, Andrey Kolobov, and Yaniss Shklyaev. On this night, audiences will hear not only tenor singers but the full spectrum of operatic voices—baritones, basses, sopranos, and mezzo-sopranos.