On the day of the city on Palace Square will give a ball

Creating its own recent history, each year Petersburg enriches the palette of cultural traditions. One of them is concerts of high art on the Palace Square, dedicated to the City Day - the Foundation Day of St. Petersburg.

This time, against the backdrop of the majestic facades of the Winter Palace, an elegant decoration will grow that will invite all guests to the front hall, where a magnificent palace ball will be given in the twinkling of crystal, gold in chandeliers and candlelight.

May 24, 2015 from 21.00 in the concert space of the Palace Square will sound light, elegant and inspirational music, to which you want to dance and fall in love. Rossini, Verdi, Gounod, Kalman, Lehar, the Waltz king Strauss - this is not a complete list of composers whose works performed by the Mikhailovsky Theater Symphony Orchestra will give a holiday not only to musical gourmets, but to absolutely any listener.

Thanks to the show of the holiday at the Palace on the international TV channel MEZZO last year, the fame of the exquisite Petersburg gala reached the world opera elite. However, the choice of the participants of the coming evening fell on the soloists who glorify today the Russian and Soviet opera school all over the world.

One of them is the elegant and courageous Dmitry Hvorostovsky. A classic opera singer, he rarely addresses the operetta genre, but will make an exception for the sake of the Petersburg public.

Dmitry Hvorostovsky

The guests of the evening will be performed by the permanent soloist of the Vienna State Opera, the brilliant soprano Valentina Nafornitsa. A native of Chisinau, in 2011 she became the youngest winner of the BBC International Singer Competition “Singer of the World” in Cardiff.

Valentina Nafornitsa

Another Gala prima is the Grammy winner in the Best Opera Record nomination (2011), Russian soloist Yekaterina Lekhina, applauded by opera fans in Berlin, Hong Kong, Beijing, Dusseldorf, Paris, Barcelona, London and other cities of the world.

Belcanto master Dmitry Korchak immediately graduated from two faculties of the Academy of Choral Art (vocal and conducting), and now in his schedule are the most famous scenes of the planet from the Vienna Opera to Carnegie Hall.

The favorite of the Petersburg public, Dmitro Popov, singer of incendiary energy and sincere lyrical timbre, is preparing new parties especially for the Gala at the Palace.

The star of the Bolshoi Theater Anna Aglatova is engaged in almost the entire repertoire of the famous troupe: both lyrical-comic and tragic roles are equally subject to it.

Mezzo-soprano Olesya Petrova is the very embodiment of the Russian soul, the charm of her rich voice is simply impossible to resist.

Tenor Alexei Dolgov is loved by the audience of different countries not only for the soulful timbre, but also for the amazing ability to get used to their stage characters.