The final concert of the 27th Krasnoyarsk festival Spring Choir Chapels will be held on the stage of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. The cantata Carmina Burana by Carl Orff and the Samovar Cantata written by the Moscow composer Yekaterina Melnikova for children's choir, pipe organ, and recorder flute and based on the poetry by Korney Chukovsky will be performed at it.

The combined choir of the adults and children accompanied by the Theatre orchestra will come to the stage. Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation Vera Baranova and Honoured Figure of Culture of the Krasnoyarsk Region Alexander Mikhaliov will perform the cantata Carmina Burana as soloists.

The Samovar Cantata will be performed in Krasnoyarsk for the first time. It’ll be the Siberian premiere of this work written a year ago specifically for the 140th anniversary of Korney Chukovsky. The author of the idea is Ivan Shakhovskoy, Deputy Head of the Committee for State Control, Usage, and Protection of Monuments.

This work is attracting more and more attention and is overgrown with new stories. The cantata has become a kind of unspoken hymn to the leader in manufacturing samovar products - the Tula plant Shtamp that has been producing well-known samovars for more than 120 years. It is symbolic that the Samovar Cantata is performed in Krasnoyarsk on the eve of the Shtamp’s anniversary that will be celebrated on May 30. It should be noted that the appearance of the cantata contributed to the birth of a new idea: the installation of a samovar monument in Tula. Now, the Russian competition for the best sketch of the monument is being held. Moreover, 2023 marks the 245th anniversary of the first mention of the factory production of Tula samovars.

The Samovar Cantata is gaining more and more popularity and is staged at various venues. It has already been heard by the audience of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Vyatka. Krasnoyarsk will be the first city east from the Urals where the work of Yekaterina Melnikova will be performed. The composer will arrive in the city to rehearse the premiere and perform the keyboard part on May 4.

A video is being prepared for the concert: it’ll accompany the performance of "adult" and "children's" cantatas, which will make the closing concert of the Spring Choir Chapels vivid and enthralling for all spectators.