EPIPHANY FESTIVAL AT NOVAYA OPERA

Today there are a lot of myths about conducting. Popular consciousness associates it with power and success. Chasing delusive fame, many musicians rush to the podium. Undoubtedly, power is an indispensable quality of a true conductor, but it is the power of thought, will and intelligence which unites performers and listeners and makes them follow the conductor. One of such conductors was great Russian maestro Evgeny Kolobov. He defined the direction for the Novaya Opera’s development as a conductor’s theatre aspiring to superior musical quality of its productions and concerts.

The 2015 Epiphany Festival at the Novaya Opera is dedicated to the profession of conductor. The podium will be taken by Chief Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, Evgeny Samoilov, Dmitry Volosnikov, Valery Kritskov, Vasily Valitov and Andrey Lebedev. There will also be prominent guest conductors including Fabio Mastrangelo, Michael Guettler and Andrey Petrenko.

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The 175th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth – the most significant anniversary of 2015 – will be commemorated by three events: Mazepa in concert conducted by Evgeny Samoilov, a Soiree of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Romances and the final Gala Concert comprised of excerpts from all of his operas and Piano Concerto No 1 (soloist Vadim Rudenko), which will be performed under the baton of the Night” title=“Partners of the Night” style="">Partners of the Night" title=“Partners of the Night” style="">of the<a> Novaya Opera’s conductors.
One of the Epiphany Festival’s evenings is given to the launch of the book /A Guide to The Orchestra and Its Backyard which has won a prestigious literary award, “Manuscript of the Year”. Its author, Vladimir Zisman, is a Novaya Opera Orchestra member.

As tradition goes, essential participants in the Festival will be the Novaya Opera’s leading soloists, choir and orchestra. I hope that for both our public and all the artists The New Padfone Infinity 32Gb" title=“ASUS The New Padfone Infinity 32Gb” style="">ASUS The New Padfone Infinity 32Gb" title=“ASUS The New Padfone Infinity 32Gb” style="">the New Musical Year will begin with bright artistic impressions at the Novaya Opera.
Mikhail SEGELMAN