II Music Festival "Brilliant Strauss" in Pavlovsky Park

In the midst of the summer season, Petersburg Concert and the Pavlovsk State Museum Reserve invite Petersburgers and visitors to one of the most romantic suburbs of the Northern capital, the city of Pavlovsk, celebrating the 240th anniversary of its founding this year. Here, in Pavlovsky Park, from July 29 to August 5, the II music festival "The Brilliant Strauss" will be held. Continuing the tradition laid down last year, famous St. Petersburg artists prepared a program dedicated to the famous Pavlovsk seasons of Johann Strauss-son. His work has become a whole era for the Russian public and one of the brightest pages in the creative life of the “King of Waltzes” himself.

In the building of the now-lost Pavlovsky Music Station from 1856 to 1865, he played the violin for 10 seasons in a row and was conducted by the brilliant Johann Strauss-son. In memory of these significant tours, Petersburg Concert prepared an exclusive concert program built from the works of the famous composer. The main event of the festival will be the premiere of the operetta The Bat, which will be held on July 29 and 30 in the Pink Pavilion. Sparkling musical history will be performed by the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sergei Stadler, People’s Artist of Russia. Parties of the main characters of the operetta will be performed by Honored Artist of Russia Galina Sidorenko, Honored Artist of the Republic of Karelia Vladimir Celebrovsky, laureate of international competitions Victoria Rebenko. Director Irina Fokina.

In addition, the festival program includes light tunes by Viennese composers - Schubert, Mozart and, of course, Strauss-son. On August 5, the ensemble “Divertissement” (artistic director Honored Artist of Russia Ilya Ioff) will present his exquisite chamber treatments in the concert hall of the Pavlovsk Palace.