In early September 2023, artists of the educational theatre of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) will perform on the stage of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre within the federal programme Big Tour.

In the theatre of the most famous educational institution in the country, where artists of various genres are trained, students take part in productions, teachers direct them, the repertoire often changes, and shows are performed almost daily. At the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, three of their works will be presented by students of the Faculty of Music Theatre who studied in the workshop of Professor, Ph.D. in History of Arts, Honoured Art Figure of the Russian Federation Alexander Barmak.

On September 4: The Buzzing Man - a cheerful vaudeville by Alexander Alyabyev and Alexei Verstovsky based on the eponymous play by Alexander Pisarev. The protagonist of the play, Repeikin, is a kind person who is ready to help anyone. Being middle-aged, he decided to finally find family happiness with the daughter of his old comrade-in-arms, with whom he fought against Napoleon. But the desire to take care of others got the upper hand here, too: he unexpectedly helped his own bride to marry the young man she loved.

On September 5, the Russian and Soviet composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov's opera Asya will be presented. It’s based on the eponymous story by Ivan Turgenev; its libretto was created by the Russian composer and poet Nikolai Manykin-Nevstruev. The composer himself defined the genre of the work as "lyrical scenes". The opera was staged for the first time in Moscow in 1900. Asya is a typically Turgenev’s and slightly Onegin-esque sad story of failed love: a girl writes a letter to a man confessing her love to him, and the man even gives himself over to dreams of their possible happiness together, but the heroine’s brother intervenes …

On September 7, the young artists will perform a comic opera. The Crossroads is a musical comedy by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (libretto by Mario Ghisalberti based on the eponymous comedy by the famous storyteller dell'arte Carlo Goldoni). The quiet life of a Venetian street is disturbed by a newcomer - Astolfi's cavalier who began to take care of young townspeople. His passion agitates the inhabitants of a small square plunging them into a noisy love polygon full of jealousy, passionate confessions, and curious situations. This opera is about all the shades of love in such a diverse and vibrant life at the Old Venetian crossroads.

The tickets for these GITIS productions are already on sale. They can be purchased at the theatre box office (open from 10:00 to 20:00 daily, phone (391) 227-86-97), on the Krasopera.ru website, and on the websites of the ticket operators.