State Academic Symphony Chapel of Russia will give two performances in Minsk

On November 14, a concert of the State Academic Symphony Chapel of Russia will be held in the Great Hall of the Belgosphilarmonia, at the conductor’s console this evening there will be an artistic director and chief conductor, people’s artist of Russia Valery Polyansky, soloist Tatiana Polyanskaya (piano). The works of Alexander Davidenko, Dmitry Shostakovich, Hector Berlioz will be heard, writes sb.by.

And on November 15, in the performance of the State Academic Symphony Chapel of Russia on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus, Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem will sound. The performance will be attended by the leading soloists of the team - Honored Artist of Russia Lyudmila Kuznetsova (mezzo-soprano) and laureates of international competitions Yulia Tomina (soprano), Maxim Sazhin (tenor) and Ruslan Rozyev (bass).

Requiem is said to be Verdi’s 27th opera. This is truly one of his most brilliant works. “The spirit is defeated, but not broken...” – such is the idea of this powerful mourning mass, – said in the Bolshoi Theater.

The State Academic Symphony Chapel of Russia is a collective uniting over 200 artists: choir, orchestra and soloists-vocalists. It was formed in 1991 with the merger of the State Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, headed by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and the State Chamber Choir of the USSR under the leadership of Valery Polyansky. Capella annually participated in the programs of the subscription of Gennady Rozhdestvensky, in 2016 she performed at the Symphony Forum of Russia in Yekaterinburg, in 2019 – at the festival for the 80th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Schnittke, toured in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, countries of Southeast Asia. Valery Polyansky’s extensive repertoire includes symphonic and cantata-oratorial works from Bach to the opuses of our contemporaries; the maestro repeatedly presented with the chapel unique concert cycles and programs, operas in concert performance and stage versions (the conductor’s repertoire includes more than 70 operas, as well as a number of operettas). The chapel under the direction of Valery Polyansky carried out many Russian and world premieres, including the first performance in the USSR of cantatas “The History of Dr. Faust” Schnittke (1983), the Russian premieres of the operas “Jesualdo” Schnittke (2000), “The Last Days of Pushkin” by A. Nikolaev (Moscow, 2007; Tula, 2010), “The Legend of the City of Yelets, the Virgin Mary and Tamerlan” (2011) by A. Tchaikovsky and his oratorio “The State Affairs” (Lipetsk, 2013). In the discography of the maestro - more than 100 records released by leading recording companies in Russia and abroad. A ballet where everything is beautiful. The only show of the play “Two Annas” took place in Minsk