New Year Gala

PERFORMERS:
Liliya Kadnikova (soprano)
Maria Suzdaltseva (soprano)
Ilya Astafurov (tenor)
Mergen Sandanov (tenor)
Alexei Repin (baritone)
Sergei Sevastyanov (bass)
Chorus and the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov

PROGRAMME:
Part I
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to the opera Le nozze di Figaro
Aria of Figaro from Act I of the opera Le nozze di Figaro
Concert aria Nehmt meinen Dank
Rondo Alla Turca (orchestration by P. Smelkov)

Gioacchino Rossini
Tarantella napoletana (lyrics by C. Pepoli, orchestration by P. Smelkov)

Georges Bizet
Overture to the opera Carmen
Habanera from the opera Carmen

Giuseppe Verdi
Manrico’s stretta from the opera Il trovatore

Giacomo Puccini
Lauretta's aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi

Ernesto De Curtis
Torna a Surriento (lyrics by J. de Curtis, orchestration by P. Smelkov)

Eduardo di Capua
O, sole mio! (lyrics by J. Capurro, orchestration by P. Smelkov)

Part II
Mikhail Glinka
Krakowiak from the opera A Life for the Tsar
Antonida's cavatina from the opera A Life for the Tsar

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Gremin’s aria from the opera Eugene Onegin

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The third song of Lel from the opera The Snow Maiden

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Gopak from the opera Mazepa
Mazepa's arioso from the opera Mazepa
Herman’s aria from the opera The Queen of Spades

Mikhail Glinka
Gorislava's cavatina from the opera Ruslan and Ludmila

Alexander Scriabin
Romance (lyrics by the composer, orchestration by P. Smelkov)

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

Giuseppe Verdi
Brindisi from the opera La traviata