The soloist of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Svetlana Cheremnova became a laureate of the 1st degree at the International Competition-Festival Siberia Lights Up the Stars in the nominated category Academic Vocal. The event took place in Krasnoyarsk on February 18-21.

“I have sung La Gioconda's aria from the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli and Sergei Rachmaninov's romance song Sing Not, O Lovely One. Everything was perfectly organized - I liked it very much. Participation in the competition provides an opportunity to test your professional skills and the ability to perform a work so that you could express the artistic, semantic, emotional tasks set by the composer the best way possible. The competition helps to understand what level of performance you are at now and whether you are moving in the right direction,” commented Svetlana Cheremnova.

The Siberia Lights Up the Stars competition is annually held with the support of the Planet of Talents Foundation in Krasnoyarsk. The event was attended by both collectives and individual performers working in concert organizations, theatres, radio, television, cinema, students of music and theatre universities, students of schools and technical colleges, as well as participants in amateur art activities. The following categories of nominations were presented at the competition: vocal, choral singing, instrumental music, choreography, fashion theatre, original and theatrical genre, the art of declamation.

The jury included academicians and professors of respected universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk (RATI-GITIS, VGIK, Moscow Institute of Culture, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Institute of Arts of Moscow State Pedagogical University, etc.), honoured professionals and leading experts in the field of culture, artists and musicians, leaders of Russian creative teams.