New Year Gala

PERFORMERS:
Soloists of the Opera Company, Chorus and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov

PROGRAMME:
Part I
Ludwig van Beethoven 
Overture to the ballet Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Aria of the Queen of the Night from Die Zauberflöte

Gioachino Rossini 
Neapolitan Tarantella (lyrics by K. Pepoli, orchestration by P. Smelkov)

Giuseppe Verdi 
Lady Macbeth’s aria from the opera Macbeth
Quartet from the opera Rigoletto
Princess Eboli’s aria from the opera Don Carlo
Duke’s Song from the opera Rigoletto
Duet of Aida and Amneris from the opera Aida
Duet of Don Carlo and Rodrigo from the opera Don Carlo

Gaetano Donizetti 
Enrico’s aria from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor

Georges Bizet
Mikaela’s aria from the opera Carmen

Part II
Mikhail Glinka
Overture to the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila
Cavatina and Rondo by Lyudmila from the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila 

Pyotr Tchaikovsky 
Gremin’s aria from the opera Eugene Onegin
Duet of Maria and Mazepa from the opera Mazepa
Herman’s aria from the opera The Queen of Spades

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Carols songs from the opera Christmas Eve
Ivan Lykov’s aria from Act III of the opera The Tsar’s Bride 

Sergei Prokofiev
Waltz from the opera War and Peace

Georgy Sviridov 
Winter road (lyrics by A. Pushkin, orchestration by P. Smelkov)
When approaching River Inger (lyrics by A. Pushkin, orchestration by P. Smelkov)

Florian Herman
Dark Eyes (lyrics by E. Grebenki, orchestration by P. Smelkov)

Giuseppe Verdi
Brindisi from the opera La traviata