At the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on October 20, the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Festival will present a gala concert of opera companies of metropolitan and top regional theatres of Russia (including Krasnoyarsk artists) and Armenia.

The concert will feature Anna Nechaeva (soprano, the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia), Irina Vashchenko (soprano, the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre), Yulia Gertseva (mezzo-soprano), Mikhail Pirogov (tenor, the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre), Rauf Timergazin (baritone, the Tchaikovsky Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre), David Babayants (baritone, the Spendiaryan National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Yerevan), Dmitri Ulyanov (bass,  the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre.

The concert will also feature principal singers of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Anna Avakyan (soprano) and Daria Ryabinko (mezzo-soprano).

The concert is directed by Irina Lychagina. Maestro Eduard Topchyan, Honoured Art Figure of the Republic of Armenia will take the conductor's stand.

The concert programme includes scenes and arias from operas by Georges Bizet (Carmen), Giuseppe Verdi (Aida, Macbeth, Il Trovatore), Jacques Offenbach (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Giacomo Puccini (Turandot), Gioacchino Rossini (La Donna del Lago, Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Anton Rubinstein (The Demon), and Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Mazeppa).

All the pieces are real musical pearls, without exception. But among them, there are one hundred percent opera hits that always delight the public: Don Basilio's aria La Calunnia è un Venticello (Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini), Radamès' romance Celeste Aida (Aida by Verdi), Escamillo's couplets (Carmen by Bizet), Calaf’s aria Nessun Dorma (Turandot by Puccini).