Pushkin – 225

PERFORMERS:
The Chorus and The Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage
Chorus Master: Larisa Shveikovskaya
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov

PROGRAMME:
Part I
Mikhail Glinka
Overture and Introduction from the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila 

Ruslan: Yevgeny Plekhanov
Lyudmila: Alisa Fedorenko
Ratmir: Natalia Yakimova
Farlaf: Valentin Azarenkov
Svetozar: Sergei Pleshivtsev
Bayan: Alexei Kostyuk

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Crowd Scenes. Scene 5 from the opera Mazepa 

Kochubei: Sergei Pleshivtsev
Iskra: Vsevolod Marilov
A Drunken Cossack: Ilya Astafurov

Part II
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Introduction from the opera The Queen of Spades
Liza’s Room. Scene 2 from the opera The Queen of Spades 

Herman: Alexei Kostyuk
Liza: Liliya Kadnikova
Polina: Natalia Yakimova
The Countess: Laura Bustamante
Masha: Anastasia Gensler
Governess: Elena Glushenko

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Arioso Aleko from the opera Aleko

Aleko: Sergey Krylov

Modest Musorgsky
Boris’s Coronation. Scene 2 from the opera Boris Godunov 

Boris Godunov: Marat Mukhametzyanov
Shuisky: Alexei Smirnov

Part III
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
A Ball in St Petersburg. Scene 6 from the opera Eugene Onegin 

Prince Gremin: Yevgeny Plekhanov
Eugene Onegin: Alexei Repin
Tatyana: Anna Barkhatova

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Act II from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan

Tsarevich (Prince) Guidon: Mingiyan Odzhaev
Tsaritsa Militrisa: Alena Diyanova
Swan-Princess: Alina Mikhailik