Selected arias (programme chosen from audience requests)

The concert programme has been selected in accordance with the results of an audience vote

Oxana Shilova (soprano)
Giuseppe Verdi. Violetta’s aria from Act I of the opera La traviata
Giuseppe Verdi. Elena’s bolero from the opera I vespri siciliani
Antonin Dvorak. Rusalka’s aria from Act I of the opera Rusalka

Nadezhda Serdyuk (mezzo-soprano)
Camille Saint-Saens. Dalila’s aria from Act II of the opera Samson et Dalila
Georges Bizet. Habanera from the opera Carmen
Giuseppe Verdi. Azucena’s tale from the opera Il trovatore

Yevgeny Akimov (tenor)
Giacomo Puccini. Cavaradossi’s aria from Act III of the opera Tosca
Giuseppe Verdi. The Duke’s canzone from the opera Rigoletto
Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Lensky’s aria from the opera Eugene Onegin

Vladimir Moroz (baritone)
Georges Bizet. The Toreador’s couplets from the opera Carmen
Gioachino Rossini. Figaro’s cavatina from the opera Il barbiere di Siviglia
Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Prince Yeletsky’s aria from the opera The Queen of Spades

Ilya Bannik (bass)
Arrigo Boito. Mefistofele’s aria “with whistling” from the opera Mefistofele
Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Prince Gremin’s aria from the opera Eugene Onegin
Alexander Borodin. Konchak’s aria from the opera Prince Igor