Young stars of world opera will perform at Winter Festival of Symphony Orchestra in Ufa

UFA, 12 December 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

On December 16, the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) of the Republic of Bashkortostan invites to the program “Young Stars of the World Opera”. The concert will take place at the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater. The beginning is at 7.00 pm.

That evening, stars of the world opera stage, soloists of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia - Olga Seliverstova (soprano) and Julia Mazurova (mezzo-soprano) will perform with the orchestra. Olga Seliverstova worked in opera houses in Paris, and since 2015 she became a soloist in the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, where she debuted with Musetta in the Bohemia opera by G. Puccini.

Yulia Mazurova became the laureate of the third prize of the Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Singers Competition in 2012. In 2013 she was the finalist of the Neue Stimmen competition. The same year, she first performed Carmen in the opera by J. Bizet at the festival in Saint-Paul de Vence (France). In 2014, she became a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia.

The program includes popular opera arias by foreign and Russian composers. The conductor is the chief conductor of the NSO RB, conductor of the State Academic Symphonic Capella of Russia and the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Dmitry Kryukov.

The program “Young Stars of the World Opera” is the second concert of the Winter Festival of the NSO RB, which takes place in Ufa and the cities of Bashkortostan from December 10 to 27.

On December 17, the National Symphony Orchestra RB will present the third evening of the Winter Festival - “The Treasury of Russian Music” in Sterlitamak.

The orchestra conducted by Dmitry Kryukov will play the masterpieces of Russian classics - Oriental fantasy “Islamey” by M. Balakirev, Musical picture for the orchestra “In Central Asia”, “Polovtsian Dances” from the opera “Prince Igor” and Symphony No. 2 “Bogatyrskaya” by A. Borodin.