PERFORMERS:
Aida Garifullina (soprano)
The Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
PROGRAMME:
Hector Berlioz
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Charles Gounod
Je veux vivre, Juliette’s arietta from Roméo et Juliette
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to La forza del destino
Vincenzo Bellini
Casta diva, Norma’s cavatina from Norma
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dance of the Skomorokhi and The Snow Maiden’s death scene from The Snow Maiden
Antonín Dvořák
Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém, Rusalka’s aria from Rusalka
Charles Gounod
Dieu! quel frisson court dans mes veines!
Juliette’s poison aria from Roméo et Juliette
Modest Mussorgsky
Dawn on the Moscow River, Introduction to Khovanshchina
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
O Child! Beneath Your Window, op. 63, no. 6
Text by Konstantin Romanov
Jules Massenet
Élégie
Texts by Louis Gallet
Cello solo: Anton Gakkel
Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Mattinata
Text by the composer
Alluki (Tatar song)