On September 3, the 20th festival of chamber and orchestral music Asia - Siberia - Europe starts on the stage of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. The Open-Gala will bring together the stars of the Bolshoi Theatre and Krasnoyarsk musicians. Special guests of the festival are soprano singer Anna Aglatova, wind quintet, and soloists of the main music theatre of Russia.

Anna Aglatova possesses a voice of extraordinary beauty and outstanding dramatic talent. Anna's repertoire includes operas of various composers from Handel to Puccini.

“Quite different heroines: this is the tragic Liu in Turandot, cunning beauty Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and the serious Micaela in Carmen,” says Anna, “All of them are united by my love for them… for each of them. They are all real women! I try to recreate dissimilar characters on stage. However, I have to admit that they would not be mine without my own energy, they’d remain strangers to me, therefore, part of my expression, my own emotions are in each of my roles.

Arsenty Tkachenko will take the conductor’s stand. The maestro is the second conductor and Deputy Artistic Director of the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra of Vladimir Spivakov. Since 2021, he has been a regular guest conductor of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra Virtuosy Moskvy (Virtuosos of Moscow).

The Open-Gala programme includes arias from operas by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Massenet, Gounod, and instrumental fantasies for soloists and orchestra.

All events of the 20th Asia-Siberia-Europe festival but the Open-Gala will be held at the Krasnoyarsk Regional Philharmonic.

The international festival of chamber and orchestral music Asia - Siberia - Europe is a cultural mega-project where Siberian musicians annually take the stage along with the best performers from Russia and foreign countries. Siberia (and this is the basic idea of ​​the festival) is the central link that connects two great world cultures of the East and West.

The organizers of the festival are the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra and the Department of External Relations of the Krasnoyarsk Administration. The Artistic Director of the festival is Mikhail Benyumov, Honoured Art Figure of the Russian Federation. Its director is Honoured Artist of Russia Larisa Markosyan. The founder of the festival is the Main Directorate of Culture of the Administration of Krasnoyarsk. The festival is held under the patronage of the Mayor of Krasnoyarsk Sergei Eryomin.