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XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

What's on

14
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Sun
Opera Gala
Conductor - Alexander Soloviev
Aida Garifullina - soprano; Ivan Gyngazov - tenor; Semyon Antakov - baritone
Verdi: Ouverture from "La forza del destino" ("The Force of Destiny"); Puccini: Cavaradossi's aria from the opera Tosca; Verdi: Bolero di Elena, "Vespri Siciliani"; Bizet: Overture to "Carmen", Couplets of Escamillo from "Carmen"; Gounod: “Valse de Juliette” from opera “Romeo and Juliet”; Mascagni: Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana"; Puccini: Mimi's aria from the opera "La Bohème", Duet Mimi and Rodolfo from "La boheme"; Bellini: Norma, Overture, Cavatina di Norma; Verdi: Duet of Don Carlos and Rodrigo from "Don Carlos"; Tchaikovsky: Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty, Serenade, Herman Arioso from "The Queen of Spades"; Rachmaninoff: "Don't sing, beauty, in front of me"; Tchaikovsky: Robert's Aria from "Iolanta"; Adam: "O Holy Night"; Lehár: Duet of Hanna and Danilo from the operetta "The Merry Widow"
15
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Mon
"Invitation to dance"
Haik Kazazyan (violin)
Haik Kazazyan - violin; Evgenij Starodubcev - piano
Kreisler: At the Tempo of the Menu (in the style of Pugnani); Mozart: Menuet from the Divertimento in D major, K. 334 (arranged by J. Heifetz); Wieniawski: Mazurka "Obertas"; Dvořák: Slavonic Dance No. 2, Mazurka in E minor, Op. 49; De Falla: Spanish Dance from the opera "La Brief Life" (arranged by F. Kreisler); Sarasate: Andalusian Romance, Spanish Dance "Jota Navarra"; Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances; Tchaikovsky: Russian Dance from the ballet "Swan Lake", Sentimental Waltz; Stravinsky: Russian Dance from the ballet "Petrushka" (arranged by S. Dushkin); Khachaturian: Aisha's Dance and Sabre Dance from the ballet "Gayane" (arranged by J. Heifetz); Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 5, 9, 17; Ravel: Piece in the Form of Habaneras; Bacini: "Dance of the Dwarves"
16
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Tue
800 RUB
200 RUB
16
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Tue
Conductor – Yuri Bashmet
New Russia State Symphony Orchestra
New Russia State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Yuri Bashmet
Vadim Repin - violin; Alexander Ramm - cello; Ekaterina Mechetina - piano
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Symphony No.5
4300 — 6000 RUB
1500 RUB
17
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Wed
800 RUB
200 RUB
18
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Thur
Mozart. “Die Zauberflote”
Conductor – Philipp Chizhevsky
The Orchestra of the Novaya Opera Theatre
Choir of the Novaya Opera Theatre
Conductor, musical director - Philipp Chizhevsky
Nikolay Didenko - Sarastro; Yaroslav Abaimov - Prince Tamino; Antonina Vesenina - Queen of the Night; Galina Kruch - Pamina; Konstantin Suchkov - Papageno; Kristina Bikmaeva - Papagena; Anton Bochkarev - Monostatos
Mozart: "Die Zauberflöte"
800 — 3000 RUB
19
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Fri
Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Valery Gergiev
In memoriam Rodion Shchedrin
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Choir of the Mariinsky Theatre
Shchedrin: "The Sealed Angel," Russian Liturgy for a cappella choir; Bruckner: Symphony No 8
1000 — 5000 RUB
20
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sat
The Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives
Symphony Orchestra of the Special Music School of St Petersburg Conservatory
Conductor - Arkady Steinlucht
Petr Morozov - clarinet; Fedor Maksimov - cello; Anna Komarova - flute; Ivan Sendetsky - cello; Alexei Tishchenko - violin; Elizaveta Ukrainskaya - piano
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4; Kraft: Cello Concerto; Rossini: Introduction, theme and variations for clarinet and orchestra; Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant; Chaminade : Flute Concertino; Elgar: Cello Concerto
Sold out
400 RUB
20
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Sat
Conductor – Alexander Sladkovsky
Soloist – Angel Wang (USA)
Conductor - Alexander Sladkovsky
Angel Wang - piano
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Overture; Britten: Piano Concerto; R. Strauss: A Hero's Life (Ein Heldenleben), tone poem
800 — 2200 RUB
21
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Sun
Conductor – Dimitris Botinis
Soloist – Alexander Ramm
Dutilleux: Cello Concerto “Tout un monde lointain...”; Tchaikovsky: Suite No 3
700 — 1800 RUB
22
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Mon
Moonlight sonnets of Russian and foreign music
Symphony Choir of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic
Artistic director, conductor - Andrey Petrenko
Marina Prince - presenter
Whitaker: "Lux Aurumque"; Mendelssohn: "Mein Herz erhebet Gott", German Magnificat; Gounod: "La Nuit"; Schumann: "Dreams" from the cycle "Scenes from Childhood" for piano (free arrangement for choir by A. Petrenko); Rheinberger: "Abendlied", motet from the cycle "Three Spiritual Songs"; Dranitsyn: "Ave Maria zart", text and melody by Johann Georg Braun; Elgar: "Serenade"; Esenvalds: "Stars"; Gurilev: "The Bell Rings Monotonously", arrangement by A. Petrenko; Russian Folk Songs: "O, Field", arrangement by A. Novikov, "Dorozhenka", arrangement by A. Sveshnikov, "Troika", arrangement by O. Kolovsky, revised by A. Petrenko, "White Bird Cherry," arranged by M. Serkov; Dranitsyn: "Evening Bells," variations on a Russian folk song; Banevich: "On the Quiet Pipe of Love"; Falik: "Stranger"; Smirnov: "On a Quiet Night..." from the cycle "Three Intermezzo on the Poems of I. Bunin.", "Approaching Izhora..." from the cycle "Five Poems by Russian Poets."; Abaza: "Foggy Morning," arranged for chorus by A. Petrenko; Rosenfeld: "My Happiness"; Tsfasman: "Unsuccessful Date," arranged by A. Petrenko; Gordon: "At the Samovar"; Soloviev-Sedoy: "Moscow Nights," free arrangement by A. Petrenko; Gavrilin: "The City Sleeps," arranged by A. Petrenko
500 — 700 RUB
22
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Mon
Ildar Abdrazakov
Vocal evening
Liszt: 3 Sonetti del Petrarca for voice and piano; Schubert: Three Songs for Bass and Piano; Ravel: 3 songs Don Quichotte à Dulcinée; Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
2000 — 6000 RUB
23
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Tue
Laureates of the Hibla Gerzmava Vocal Competition Vocal evening
Polina Sharovarova - mezzo-soprano; Stanislav Lee - baritone; Mark Vasa - piano
Mozart: Aria of Sextus from the opera "La clemenza di Tito", Count Almaviva's aria from the opera "Le Nozze di Figaro"; Rossini: Rosina's Cavatina from the opera "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", Cavatina Figaro from the opera "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", Duet of Figaro and Rosina the opera "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"; Tchaikovsky: "Meditation", Robert's aria from the opera "Iolanthe", Don Giovanni's Serenade, "Amid the noisy ball"; Rimsky-Korsakov: Lelya's song "A cloud conspired with thunder..." from the opera "The Snow Maiden"; Medtner: Canzona-Serenade; Glier: "Night is Coming"; Rachmaninoff: "In the Silence of the Secret Night", "I'm Waiting for You", "Yesterday We Met..."; Mussorgsky: Trepak ("Songs on Death Belts"); Kalman: The aria of Mr. X from the operetta "Die Zirkusprinzessin"; Offenbach: Countess of Gerolstein's Aria from the operetta "La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein"; Chopin: Etude ("Revolutionary"); Montsalvatge: "Five Negro Songs" (Nos. 1, 4, and 5); di Capua: "O sole mio"
700 — 2500 RUB
23
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Tue
2000 — 5000 RUB
25
December, 2025
8:00 pm, Thur
Mahler. Symphony No. 2
Conductor – Nikolay Alexeev
Closing of the festival
Symphony Choir of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic
Artistic director - Andrey Petrenko
Petersburg Chamber Choir
Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Valentina Fedeneva - soprano; Sofia Fainberg - mezzo-soprano
800 — 2500 RUB

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