Evening with Oscar Wilde

PERFORMERS:
Alena Diyanova (soprano)
Liliya Kadnikova (soprano)
Elena Razgulyaeva (soprano)
Elizaveta Senatorova (soprano)
Irina Kolodyazhnaya (mezzo-soprano)
Ilya Astafurov (tenor)
Mingiyan Odzhaev (tenor)
Alexei Bublik (baritone)
Dmitry Nelasov (baritone)
Vyacheslav Vasilyev (baritone)
Anatoly Badayev (bass)
Vladislav Chibirev (bass)
Elena Strukova (violin)
Yuri Ozhegov (viola)
Elizaveta Sushchenko (cello)
Lyudmila Kochmaryova (flute)
Natalia Malashkova (oboe)
Tereza Charyeva (harp)
Andrei Annenkov (piano)

PROGRAMME:
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Melody from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice

Remo Giazotto
Albinoni’s Adagio. Arrangement for flute by Yuri Dolzhikov

Fritz Kreisler
Pieces from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (Old Viennese Melodies) for violin and piano, IFK 22

Richard Stöhr
Winternacht (Winter’s Night), Op. 47 No. 4. Lyrics by Natalie von Oldenburg

William Gomez
Ave Maria

Camille Saint-Saëns
Le Rossignol (The Nightingale), ICS 201. Lyrics by Théodore de Banville

Jules Massenet
Élégie (Elegy), IJM 67. Lyrics by Louis Gallet

Claude Debussy
Nuits d’étoiles (Starry Night), L 4. Lyrics by Théodore de Banville

Antonín Dvořák
Když mne stará matka (Songs My Mother Taught Me) from the cycle Gypsy Songs, Op. 55 No. 4. Lyrics by Adolf Heyduk

Franz Schubert
Greisengesang (Song of Old Age), Op. 60 No. 1, D 778. Lyrics by Friedrich Rückert

Gaetano Donizetti
Nemorino’s romance from the opera L’elisir d’amore

Edvard Grieg
Du fatter ei Bølgernes evige Gang (The Poet’s Heart), from the cycle Melodies of the Heart, Op. 5 No. 2. Lyrics by Hans Christian Andersen

Henri Vieuxtemps
Élégie for viola and piano, Op. 30

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Lullaby (Cradle Song), Op. 16 No. 1. Lyrics by Apollon Maykov

Lowell Mason
Joy to the world. Lyrics by Isaac Watts

Ernst Heuser
Weinacht (Christmas). Lyrics by Gustav Pistor

King Oliver
The star that now is shining. Lyrics by Adelaide Procter and Frederick William Faber

Gaetano Donizetti
Ave Maria, IGD 8

Reciter: Vsevolod Marilov

Host of the concert: Elizaveta Sushchenko

About the Concert

Christmastime is a season for wonders and incredible adventures, when the most devout wishes are carried out. Is not it a miracle when one may, for an evening, be translated to a fairy town in a far country and pass the evening away in the company of a notable storyteller? That miracle can be performed by artists of Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. They invite you to be transported to Christmas London to see Oscar Wilde, who will tell you his famous stories.

Evening with Oscar Wilde is a spectacular in which musical numbers are inscribed in plots of three stories. The main ideas of Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose, The Happy Prince and The Star Child were translated into music of various vocal and instrumental compositions. Among them there are the well-known Albinoni’s Adagio, Elegy by Massenet, Nemorino’s romance from the opera L'elisir d'amore, and Lullaby by Tchaikovsky. The audience will be able to enjoy delicate French vocal miniatures by Debussy and Saint-Saëns, lieder by Schubert and Stöhr, salon pieces for strings by Kreisler and Vieuxtemps, and the touching Ave Maria by William Gomez, a contemporary Gibraltar guitarist.

Besides the storyteller Wilde, a hostess, opera singers and musicians, the festive atmosphere of the event is to be supported by a vocal quartet that will sing popular Christmas carols in four parts.

Age category 6+