stage
Artists
Accompanist: laureate of international competitions Inna Peters
*The cast is subject to change
Credits
Stage Director: Igor Bondarenko
Choirmasters: Semyon Kruglov, Lyubov Skurikhina
The choral concert Glorious May is a musical story about a time where the joy of peaceful life is gradually replaced by the ordeal of war.
The first part, performed by the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Choir, will feature songs by Isaak Dunayevsky, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Mark Fradkin and Rodion Shchedrin, conveying the atmosphere of festive May — a time of demonstrations, cheerful marches and bright lyrics filled with a sense of moving forward, inner uplift and faith in the future.
The second part will present Alexey Larin's cantata Soldiers’ Songs, which reveals another emotional layer — restrained and focused — about everyday life at the front, the memory of home, courage and inner fortitude, through which the price of peaceful life is especially keenly felt.
The choral concert Glorious May is a reflection on the contrasts of history and memory, in which festive life is inseparable from tragic experience.