Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore opera performance is a part of the Bel Canto in Siberia project. It is being run in the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre between February 14 and March 18. The Italian conductor Valeri Simone will take to the conductor's stand during the performance on February 27.

Maestro Simone was born in 1972 in Pisa. He studied playing various instruments - piano, organ, harpsichord, as well as composition and conducting in Florence and Rome. During his artistic career, he has played more than 800 solo, chamber and symphony concerts in the cities of Europe, Mexico, Australia and America.

This is not the first time he’s visiting Russia. Valeri Simone gave a series of concerts in Tsarskoye Selo along with the St. Petersburg State Hermitage Orchestra. In 2018, he conducted the Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera Pagliacci at the Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theatre; in 2019, he took part in the Safonov International Festival of Academic Music Leonardo - Memoria - 500 in Kislovodsk. He is a participant, laureate and jury member of many international and national competitions.

Now Valeri Simone is a member of the Artistic Commission of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, chairman of the Tuscany Art Regional Choral Committee.

We’d add that other conductors from Italy will take part in the Bel Canto in Siberia project: Lorenzo Bizzarri (Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini on March 6) and Alexei Nikonov, the Russian Italian conductor who already is familiar to Krasnoyarsk music art amateurs  (March 13 - the premiere of the Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Un Ballo in Maschera, March 18 - the final Gala Concert of the project). And maestro Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli conducted Aida by Verdi on February 14; he, with his bright temperament, earned the admiration of the musicians of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra and stormy applause of the audience.