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XIX Festival Saint-Petersburg Palaces
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XIX International Music Festival

XIX Internaitional Music Festival
"Saint-Petersburg Palaces"

May 25 - June 29, 2011

In 1993 director and conductor of The Moscow Chamber Orchestra Constantine Orbelian founded the Music Festival «Saint-Petersburg Palaces».

Since 1997 Maria Safarianc, famous violin player, is an artistic director of International Music Festival “Saint-Petersburg Palaces”.

Recovery of music and cultural-historic traditions of Russia in brilliant apartments of palaces, and also new work premiers in participation of famous Russian and foreign musicians are the main ideas of the festival.

It’s almost 19 years that every year in “white nights” period doors of palaces, situated in the historical center of Saint-Petersburg and its suburbs, are opening for guests of this unique celebration, such as: The Hermitage theater, The Mariinsky, The Mikhaylovsky, The Yusupov, The Sheremetev, The Marble, The Menshikov, The Cathrine, The Pavlov, The Peterhof, and The Gatchina palaces…

World famous musicians, both foreign and Russian soloists and collectives are performing in these famous residences of Russian emperor family and old Russian aristocracy.

Programs of International Music Festival “Saint-Petersburg Palaces” are representing all diversity and refinement of St-Petersburg style.
This year Festival is included in the Official Year of Italy in Russia 2011.

PROGRAM

May 25th, 7 pm
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (Synod Building)
Senatskaya sq., 3
FESTIVAL OPENING
VERDI.
REQUIEM for solosits, choir and orchestra
Maria Letizia GROSSELLI
soprano (Italy)
Cristina MELIS
mezzo-soprano (Italy)
Khachatur BADALYAN
tenor
Alexander MOROZOV
bass
Smolny Cathedral Chamber Choir
Artistic director –
Vladimir BEGLETSOV
Konstantinovsky orchestra
Conductor – Giacomo SAGRIPANTI (Italy)

May 29th, 4 pm
The Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Reserve, Pavilion «Hall on the Island»
Pushkin, Sadovaya str., 7
VOCAL EVENING
Angela PAPALE soprano (Italy)
Piano by Fabio MARRA (Italy)
VERDI, PUCCINI, MASCAGNI, TOSTI
Opera arias

May 30th, 6 pm
The Gatchina State Museum Reserve, Gatchina Palace
Gatchina, Krasnoarmeyskiy per., 1
Angela PAPALE
soprano (Italy)
Alexei GOLOVIN
oboe
Konstantinovsky orchestra
Conducor –
Sergei SLOVACHEVSKY
PUCCINI. Romances (St.Petersburg premiere)
ALBINONI, CORELLI, VIVALDI

June 1st, 7 pm
The State Russian Museum, Marble Hall, White (Gothic) Hall
Millionnaya str., 5/1
QUATUOR CAMBINI-PARIS (Ôðàíöèÿ
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CAMBINI, JADIN, GRÅTRY, BEETHOVEN

June 4th, 7 pm
The Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Reserve, The Catherine Palace, Throne Hall
Pushkin, Sadovaya str., 7
«GREAT ITALIANS IN RUSSIA»
CIMAROSA. «Il Maestro di Capella»
CIMAROSA. Oboe concerto
VIVALDI. Violin concerto

Roberto de CANDIA baritone (Italy)
Maria SAFARIANTS violin
Gianfranco BORTOLATO oboe (Italy)
Konstantinovsky orchestra
Conductor – Giuseppe SABBATINI (Italy)

June 5th, 7 pm
Moscow, The Kremlin, The Armoury
In the framework of the project “Palaces of Two Capitals”
«GREAT ITALIANS IN RUSSIA»
CIMAROSA. «Il Maestro di Capella»
CIMAROSA. Oboe concerto
VIVALDI. Violin concerto

Roberto de CANDIA baritone (Italy)
Maria SAFARIANTS violin
Gianfranco BORTOLATO oboe (Italy)
Konstantinovsky orchestra
Conductor – Giuseppe SABBATINI (Italy)

June 8th, 7 pm
The State Academic Capella
Moika emb., 20

TCHAIKOVSKY
Instrumental concertos

Eldar NEBOLSIN piano
Tianwa YANG
violin (China)
St.Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Vladimir LANDE (USA)

June 11th, 6 pm
The Konstantinosvky palace (State Complex «The National Congress Palace»)
Strelna, Berzovaya av., 3
«MUSICAL SEASONS AT THE KONSTANTINOVSKY PALACE»
«HOMAGE TO ENRICO CARUSO»

Alfredo NIGRO tenor (Italy)
Alexey SAYAPIN tenor
Zhenishbek YISMANOV tenor (Kyrgyzstan)
Konstantinovsky Symphony orchestra
Conductor – Giuseppe SABBATINI (Italy)

VERDI, PUCCINI, DONIZETTI,MASCAGNI, MASSENET

June 15th , 7 pm
The State Russian Museum, The Mikhailovsky Castle, Georgievsky Hall
Sadovaya str., 2

PIAZZOLLA.“The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires”(original version, Russian premiere) VIVALDI. “The Four Seasons”

Luca MARZIALI violin (Italy)
Maria SAFARIANTS violin
Konstantinovsky Symphony orchestra
Conductor – Giuseppe SABBATINI (Italy)

June 19th , 7 pm
The State Hermitage, The Hermitage Theatre
Dvortsovaya embankment, 34

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV. The Tsar's Bride Overutre
GRIEG. Piano concerto
BRUCH. Violin concerto No.1
SARASATE. Zigeunerweisen for violin and orchestra

Eldar NEBOLSIN piano
Tianwa YANG violin (China)
St.Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Vladimir LANDE (USA)

June 22th , 7 pm
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (Synod Building)
Senatskaya sq., 3
In memory of the 70th anniversary of beginning of the the Great Patriotic War
GAVRILIN. War Letters. Concert production

People's Artist of the Russian Federation Alexei PETRENKO
Olesya PETROVA mezzo-soprano
St.Petersburg Children's Radio and TV Choir
Artsitic director - Stanislav GRIBKOV
Konstantinovsky orchestra
Conductor –
Sergei SLOVACHEVSKY
Director by Galina DMITRENKO

June 25th , 7 pm
The Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Reserve,
The Alexandrovsky Palace, Semi-Oval Hall
Pushkin,
Sadovaya str., 7

PERGOLESI. STABAT MATER f or soloists and orchestra

Yana IVANILOVA soprano
Galina SIDORENKO mezzo-soprano
Konstantinovsky orchestra
Conductor – Karen DURGARYAN (Armenia)

June 29th
The State Hermitage, The Heraldic Hall
Dvortsovaya sq., 2
FESTIVAL CLOSING

Konstantinovsky orchestra
Conductor and soloist - Federico MONDELCI saxophone (Italy)
Katazhina MATSKEVICH soprano (Poland)


IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS:
July 1st
St.Peter and Paul Cathedral
July 3rd The Derzhavin Musem

PACIFIC BOY CHOIR OF CALIFORNIA (USA)



Festival programs can be changed

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