ALEKO

 

International Music Festival “Operalia”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

ALEKO

One-act opera

(Concert performance)

Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes (with one interval)

Please note that the age limit is 10+

Management reserves the right to substitute artists

As part of the International Festival “Operalia”, a concert performance of the one-act opera Aleko by the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff will be presented, featuring opera soloists, the symphony orchestra and the chorus of the Astana Opera House.

The project’s author, conductor and artistic director of the festival is People’s Artist of Kazakhstan Abzal Mukhitdin.

Joining the leading soloists of the opera company on stage will be young singers – graduates of the International Opera Academy ASTANA OPERA. The role of Aleko will be performed by Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Talgat Mussabayev and the talented Kazakhstani baritone Dinmukhamed Koshkinbayev, winner of the television project “Bolshaya Opera” on the Kultura TV channel.

Aleko is a one-act opera based on the poem The Gypsies by Pushkin. The action takes place in a gypsy camp. At the heart of the story is a tragic love triangle: the beautiful gypsy Zemfira, Aleko, who left the city for love, and the young gypsy Zemfira has fallen for.

Stage Director and Narrator: Sergey MATVEYEV,

Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan,

People’s Artist of Kyrgyzstan

Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the Astana Opera House

Principal Chorus Master: Yerzhan DAUTOV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Conductor: Abzal MUKHITDIN, People’s Artist of Kazakhstan

Tickets purchased at the Astana Opera are exchangeable and refundable only in cases of cancelled or postponed performances. In all other cases, no refunds and exchanges are possible.