December 5, 2024 | Zaryadye Concert Hall
III Zaryadye Moscow Winter Music Festival
Soloist – Dmitry Korchak, tenor
Conductor – Timur Zangiev
Fragments from the operas by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Napravnik, Rachmaninoff
This December the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia will twice take part in the 3rd Zaryadye Moscow Music Festival which encompasses in its programs operas in concert, symphony and chamber music of various eras and styles. On 5 December, the Zaryadye Hall will host the world-known tenor Dmitry Korchak, one of the the oldest and closest artistic partners of the NPR and Vladimir Spivakov. It was also with this orchestra that Dmitry Korchak debuted as a symphony conductor in Russia. The coming concert in the Zaryadye Hall will be Korchak's only solo concert in Russia in the 2024/25 season. Timur Zangiev, the conductor of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater, will direct the NPR.
Korchak first won the admiration of music lovers twenty years ago with his singing of Nadir's Romance from Bizet's opera “Les pêcheurs de perles” which made a splash. Starting his breathtaking career in the West, Korchak proved that he was able to sing in proper style the most varied repertoire. In due time he got to be compared to the belcanto king Juan Diego Flórez. Nowadays the singer is most welcomed in the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Berlin Staatsoper Unter-den-Linden, the Paris Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper; he has conquered the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Zurich Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the La Monnaie Opera in Brussels, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Rome Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and many others. His performances have been acclaimed in the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Albert Hall in London.
The program of Dmitry Korchak's solo concert in the Zaryadye Hall will include only arias by Russian classics from Glinka to Rachmaninoff. 'The Russian repertoire is very difficult for singing, –the singer says. – Everything is of great importance in it: music, text, historical background both of the times when the opus was written and the times reflected in the work. But of the utmost significance in the Russian opera music is its soulfulness and deep emotions that should be transmitted by the musician to the audience.' The singer is planning to record this program in the nearest future, while in February he is to perform the Lensky part in Tchaikovsky's opera “Eugene Onegin” at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The singer can be heard in the same part in the full “Eugene Onegin” recording made by Vladimir Spivakov with Russian opera stars.