We are delighted to invite to our first Festival of Classical Music and Opera dedicated to the festivities and cultural traditions of Russian New Year as celebrated according to the old Julian Calendar.

You will be immersed into a diverse programme by high-calibre soloists and scholarship holders from the Royal Academy of Music.

To facilitate livestreaming for those who have to isolate, ticket purchase also includes a livestream link to the event.

Our Performers:

Daria Papysheva - soprano, Artist in Residence

Olexander Ilvakhin - baritone

Nikolai Lester - piano

Jack Redman - piano

Nikita Demidenko -piano

Timur Dzhafarov - flute

Ivan Rogachev - clarinet

Festival Programme:

PART 1:

Selected Scenes and Arias from Eugene Onegin Opera by P. Tchaikovsky

“Tatiana’s Letter Scene”

Onegin’s Aria: “Vy mne pisali, nye otpiraites’ “

Lensky’s Aria (flute)

Finale Scene of Tatiana and Onegin

BREAK

PART 2:

Feinberg - Prelude Op 8 No. 1

Olenchik Caprice 18 “Spanish sketches”

Rachmaninoff - Elegie Op.3 no.3. No.1

Rachmaninoff - ‘Vsyo Otnyal U Menya’ Op.26, No. 2.

Rachmaninoff - ‘Spring Waters’ Op. 4, No. 11.

Medtner - Sonata- Reminiscenza

Rimsky-Korsakov - Snow Maiden’s Aria from opera Snow Maiden

Looking forward to see you at Christ Church, Isle of Dogs at 19:00 on the 14th of January!