On June 22 and 23, the performances of the Glazunov's ballet Raymonda staged by Yuri Grigorovich will be given at the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre. The maestro from the Bolshoi Theatre, Honoured Artist of Russia Pavel Sorokin will take the conductor's stand both nights.

The conductor was born into a family of artists of the Bolshoi Theatre - singer Tamara Sorokina and dancer Shamil Yagudin. In 1985 he graduated from the Piano Department of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with honours (class of Lev Naumov); in 1989, its Opera and Symphony Conducting Department, also with honours (class of Yuri Simonov).

In 1983, he joined the team of the Bolshoi Theatre as a ballet accompanist. Between 1987 and 1989, he developed his conducting skills at the Paris Conservatory as a trainee. Pavel Sorokin also took part in a trainee programme within the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein. At the end of the trainee programme, he entered the Bolshoi Theatre on a competitive basis: in 1996, he was an assistant to Mstislav Rostropovich at the production of the opera Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky (edition of Dmitri Shostakovich).

Pavel has conducted nearly twenty opera and ballet productions including the ballet Raymonda choreographed by Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich at the Bolshoi Theatre in 2003. Pavel Sorokin will also conduct the Krasnoyarsk production of the outstanding choreographer.

On June 22, the eternal triangle of Raymonda, Jean de Brienne, and Abderakhman will be performed by Krasnoyarsk principal dancers Elena Svinko, Yuri Kudryavtsev, and Egor Osokin; on June 23 - Yekaterina Bulgutova, Georgy Bolsunovsky, Marcello Pelizzoni.