ASTANA. KAZINFORM The concert version of Rachmaninoff’s Aleko premiered with great success within the framework of the Rachmaninoff Tribute festival at Astana Opera on April 6 and 7. The audience responded to the artists’ performance of the passionate love story of the young man Aleko and the freedom-loving gypsy Zemfira with warmth and enthusiasm.
Theatre Day is a professional holiday of hundreds of thousands of people who have devoted their lives to serving this glorious and beautiful art form. It is celebrated all over the world on March 27. Astana Opera’s team did not become an exception. The stars of the capital’s opera house talked about what theatre means for artists, how this holiday is celebrated and whether there are any special traditions on this day.
ASTANA. KAZINFORM The tour of Astana Opera’s soloists, choir and symphony orchestra to Almaty ended with thunderous applause. On December 8 and 10, excerpts from national and foreign operas, symphonic works, as well as Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental work Requiem were performed for the classical music connoisseurs of the southern capital under the baton of the Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Abzal Mukhitdin.
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s outstanding opera Eugene Onegin, based on Alexander Pushkin’s eponymous novel in verse, will be presented on December 2 and 3 as part of the Zhibek Zholy International Festival, Astana Opera press service informs.