December 15 tickets for performances of 34th F. Shalyapin’s festival in Kazan go on sale

From  February  1 to  20, 2016,  the   XXXIV International Opera Festival   named after F.I.Shalyapin will take place    on the stage of the    M. Jalil  Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.  The festival program will consists of  to 14 performances and concerts featured by  the stars of the world and Russian opera. Tickets for the festival go on sale  December 15th, 2015

The festival will open  the season premiere - opera "Il Trovatore" by J.  Verdi directed  by Efim Meisel (February 1).  J. Verdi will become the most performed composers of the festival - in the playbill  includes just 5 of his masterpieces, in addition to the "Troubadour" is "La Traviata" (February 7), "Rigoletto" (February 10), "Aida" (February 12) and "Nabucco" (February 17 ). Worthy music of  P. Tchaikovsky will be presented - February 15 audience will hear "lyrical scenes",  "Evegeny Onegin", and on February 2  the "Queen of Spades" will be given  in a concert performance. On the day of the birth of Fyodor Chaliapin traditionally  will show a national musical drama "Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky (February 13). The program also includes a comic opera "The Barber of Seville" by G. Rossini (February 3) and tragic "Turandot" J. Puccini (February 9).

A special highlight of the festival will be a preview of «Dona nobis pacem» («Grant us peace", February 6) to the music of J.S.  Bach's Mass in B  Minor, staged  by an  outstanding dancer and choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev. The world premiere took place in Kazan in the spring of 2015; April 18, 2015, the day of the 75th anniversary of V. Vasilyev, "Messiah" was shown in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. It is expected that Vladimir Vasiliev will  visit  the play within the Shalyapin Festival -2016 and stand   at   conductor’s  desk  at the beginning of the action, as it  was done at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Attention of   music lovers will surely attract solo concert by  stars of the world stage  Albina Shagimuratova. For the first time in the modern history of the festival will take place in a chamber concert format – Albina will  not perform under  the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra,  but  to be  accompanied by  brilliant pianist Boris Berezovsky. The concert will take place on February 16.

The program of the festival   to be  completed  by  a gala concert with participation of soloists of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia.

Tickets for the performances of the festival - from 500 to 2000 rubles, galas - from 800 to 3500 rubles. Tickets will be available at the theater box office (231-57-10, working hours - every day from 10.00 to 19.00), as well as on the website CashierEn and public services on the Portal of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Full festival poster has been published on the official website TASTOiB   after M. Dzhalil, kazan-opera.ru