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Olga Borodina has changed her performance schedule in order to present Maestro Gergiev with a gift – the singer will appear at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire on 2 May.
On Valery Gergiev’s birthday, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire will be hosting a concert as part of the XI Moscow Easter Festival, the programme for which was previously to have included works by Sergei Prokofiev, around whom this year’s festival was organised. Mariinsky Theatre soloist Olga Borodina decided to change her performance schedule in favour of Moscow in order to give Maestro Gergiev and the audience in Moscow a special present.
Thanks to Borodina’s involvement, the concert will now have a French flavour. Instead of Prokofiev’s Symphony No 7, the concert will now feature highlights from Hector Berlioz’ symphonie dramatique Roméo et Juliette and arias from Camille Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson et Dalila starring Olga Borodina, the finest interpreter of the role of Dalila on the stage today.
At a grand gala on 2 May, Denis Matsuev – a regular participant in Maestro Gergiev’s creative projects – will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. This will conclude the Easter Festival’s incredible project to perform all of the composer’s symphonies and piano concerti at one festival in various regions throughout Russia as well as at the Great Hall of the Conservatoire in Moscow.
Olga Borodina is also taking part in the Easter Festival’s next major project – a performance of Modest Musorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre on 7 May.
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