Filipp Selivanov will take the conductor’s stand at the show Oprichnik by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Ivan Gyngazov will sing the role of the protagonist Andrei Morozov. The show will take place on the stage of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on October 6.

Filipp Selivanov won the First Prize and gold medal at the Rachmaninov International Piano Players, Composers, Conductors Competition (Moscow, 2022); he’s a conductor of the Moscow theatre Helikon-Opera. The Krasnoyarsk audience met the young musician in January 2023: he visited our city as the music director and conductor of the premiere of Oprichnik.

Filipp Selivanov graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory; he’s a laureate of several international competitions; he conducted operas and ballets by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Mascagni, and Leoncavallo at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He passed an internship at the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra in Moscow. In 2020, he made his Helikon Opera debut at the premiere of the production There and Back Again to the music of Paul Hindemith and joined the theatre’s company. His repertoire includes the operas Il Trovatore, Falstaff, Aida by Verdi, La Finta Giardiniera by Mozart, Carmen by Bizet, Turandot and La Bohème by Puccini, Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, operettas by Offenbach and Strauss, Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi.

Tenor singer Ivan Gyngazov graduated from the Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory. Since 2013, he has been a soloist of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre; in 2017, he made his debut on the stage of the Helikon Opera Theatre in Verdi's Il Trovatore performing the part of Manrico. Nowadays, he is a soloist of the Helikon Opera; his repertoire includes more than 15 roles in operas by European (primarily Italian and French) and Russian composers. Ivan also actively performs on the stages of leading Russian theatres including such iconic ones as the Bolshoi and Mariinsky. Ivan Gyngazov sings the role of Andrei Morozov in Oprichnik at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg; and now he is going to perform this role for the first time on the Krasnoyarsk stage.