February 28, 2025 | Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International Performing Arts Center
Soloist – Olga Peretyatko, soprano
Conductor – Arif Dadashev
Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff. Romances and opera fragments
World opera star Olga Peretyatko will give a solo concert in the Moscow International Performing Arts Center. Accompanied by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, she will sing romances and popular arias by Russian classical composers. She will transform into various characters such as fragile Snow Maiden, graceful Marfa (“The Tsar's Bride”) and beguiling Volkhova (“Sadko”) from operas by Rimsky-Korsakov, and appear as Lyudmila from Glinka's “Ruslan and Luydmila” in her most gleeful and most grievous moods. Among romances the singer has chosen such gems of vocal lyrics as “Lilacs”, Vocalise, “How Nice It is Here”, “Do not Sing, My Beauty” by Rachmaninoff, “Amid the Din of the Ball” and “Lullaby” by Tchaikovsky, and some others.
The Orchestra will add to the program some bright symphonic fragments from operas (“The Three Wonders” from “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” by Rimsky-Korsakov, the men's dance from “Aleko” by Rachmaninoff, the Krakowiak from “A Life for the Tsar” by Glinka and many others). On the podium there will appear Arif Dadashev, former participant of the NPR's conductor training group and now the conductor at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theater and the Moscow Operetta Theater, also an invited conductor at the Mariinsky Theater in St-Petersburg and the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet State Academic Theater.
'Olga is versatile and delightful in all facets of her talent. Passages sung piano are breathtaking while the coloratura goes to the heights with charming freshness. Her deepest immersion into every part is felt in each aria performed without any affectation and very true to the music' – wrote the experienced critic from Süddeutsche Zeitung. Other media in many countries are also full of superlatives: the terrific vocal gifts, supreme professionalism and artistry of the singer are widely praised.
The world fame came to the St-Petersburg born singer after a brilliant performance at the Operalia competition by Placido Domingo. It opened the doors of most important opera houses in the world such as the Metropolitan Opera in New-York, the Covent Garden Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera and many others as well as renowned festivals in Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence, Pesaro. Nowadays she is one of the most sought-after divas, working with leading orchestras and conductors. She has released six albums for Sony Classical, got several prestigious awards including OPUS Klassik, ECHO Klassik and the Franco Abbiati Prize from Italian critics.