On September 12th opens the anniversary 40th creative season of the Krasnoyarsk opera and ballet theatre. This year promises to be not less saturated, than previous. For public the set of surprises and premier performances is prepared.

The big gala concert will open the series of events. It will be included the fragments of the works of the Russian opera classics entering the repertoire of our theatre. Ballet numbers, opera arias and the duets will continue each other or intertwine unexpectedly.

This season on our stage will return the bright one-act ballets: "Antigone" of Mark Perkarsky – a performance full of emotionality, the equipment and expressiveness where ritually sounding drums set a rhythm, becoming his dynamic keynote. «Electra» is created according to the libretto by Yury Grigorovich, in a basis – Sophocles and Euripides's ancient greek tragedies on music of the opera of the same name of Richard Strauss. In the face of public will recover and developed risen from the stone depth of centuries the ancient story about terrible destructions which are born in itself by blind uncompromising hatred and thirst of the power. The producing choreographer of the ballets – the honored artist of Russia Sergey Bobrov.

At October the choir of the theatre invites all to the benefit performance, at the program will sound original adaptations of national songs, jazz sketches and choral miniatures of different composers. And at November will be held the orchestra benefit performance.

It won't do also without new performances. At November the public is waited by a premiere – the most contradictory opera by G. Verdi "Il Trovatore". It is the romantic drama with a tangled intrigue and a bloody outcome, duels, revenge, poison and fatal secrets. Irreconcilable contrasts, collisions of two warring parties and deep, incredibly beautiful feelings of heroes are brightly transferred in it. The production director – Maria Tikhonova familiar to the Krasnoyarsk viewer according to the opera "Medea" and to the mystic show "Rusalka".

Within the international festival "Parade of Stars at Opera" will be held the premieres of operas "Eugene Onegin" of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and "Raphael" of Anton Arensky. Besides, at the second half of the season is planned the premiere of the opera of Mozart "Le nozze di Figaro".

But it is not all events of new creative year – the public is expected by a number of benefit performances of soloists of the theatre and concerts at the theatre drawing room.