On Sunday 10 January at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be a performance by leading Mariinsky Opera soloist Mikhail Petrenko. The singer’s recital programme includes vocal works by Sergei Rachmaninoff. On-stage Mikhail Petrenko is equally convincing in character roles and as noble heroic characters. He embodies that for which Russian basses are so well-loved – “it is difficult not to feel a deep emotion when you hear this rich and booming timbre that comes from the very depths and fills the auditorium.”
The singer himself says that “a recital is a challenge to your own self. And it’s much harder. You’re alone, you have no colleagues from the chorus or on the stage. You are performing for yourself, not for your career. It’s a much more sincere phenomenon in our profession. You appear once, yet you have to rehearse ten times more than for a performance of a production. On the other hand, there is a great deal more satisfaction from it.”
The singer will be accompanied by his regular concert-mistress Marina Mishuk.
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