Evening of Italian music

Part I

Gaetano DONIZETTI

Cavatina Severo “Decio, signor del mondo... Di tua beltade Im magine”
from the opera Poliuto
Rauf Timergazin (baritone)

Maffio Orsini’s Romance “Nella fatal di Rimini”
from the opera Lucrezia Borgia
Ulyana Biryukova (mezzo-soprano)

Duet of Leonora and Alfonso “Per la festa previeni”
from the opera La favorita
Maria Barakova (mezzo-soprano)
Dmitry Cheblykov (baritone)

Nemorino’s Romance “Una furtiva lagrima”
from the opera L’elisir d’amore
Alexei Kursanov (tenor)

Alfonso’s Aria “Ma de’ malvagi... Vien, Leonora”
from the opera La favorita
Dmitry Cheblykov (baritone)

Giuseppe VERDI

Nannetta’s Aria “Sul fil d’un soffio etesio”
from the opera Falstaff
Elizaveta Narsia (soprano)

De Silva’s Recitative and Cavatina “Che mai vegg’ io... Infelice!”
from the opera Ernani
Alexei Kulagin (bass)

Leonora’s Cavatina “Ne’ tornei... Tacea la notte placida”
from the opera Il trovatore
Maria Motolygina (soprano)

Gioachino ROSSINI

Duet of Arsace and Assur “D’un tenero amore”
from the opera Semiramide
Maria Barakova (mezzo-soprano)
Dmitry Cheblykov (baritone)


Part II

Vincenzo BELLINI

Giulietta’s Recitative and Romance “Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh! quante volte”
from the opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Elizaveta Narsia (soprano)

Riccardo’s Recitative and Romance “Or dove fuggo... Ah! per sempre io ti perdei”
from the opera I puritani
Nikolai Zemlyanskikh (baritone)

Duet of Adina and Nemorino “Chiedi all'aura lusinghiera”
from the opera L’elisir d’amore
Elmira Karakhanova (soprano)
David Posulikhin (tenor)

Gioachino ROSSINI

Recitative and Rondo of Isabella “Amici... Pensa alla patria”
from the opera L’italiana in Algeri
Maria Barakova (soprano)

Duet of Isabella and Mustafà “Oh! Che muso, che figura!”
from the opera L’Italiana in Algeri
Ulyana Biryukova (mezzo-soprano)
Alexei Kulagin (bass)

Giuseppe VERDI
Giorgio Germont’s Aria “Di provenza il mar, il suol”
from the opera La traviata
Rauf Timergazin (baritone)

Giacomo PUCCINI
Cio-Cio-san’s Aria “Un bel dì, vedremo”
from the opera Madama Butterfly
Maria Motolygina (soprano)

Gaetano DONIZETTI
Duet of Don Pasquale and Malatesta “Cheti cheti immantinente”
from the opera Don Pasquale
Alexei Kulagin (bass)
Nikolai Zemlyanskikh (baritone)

Piano part: Giulio Zappa, Vera Grigorieva, Tovuz Abbasova, Mikhail Korshunov