Gala of the Russian Opera Soloists

When :

from Thursday 30 May, 2013
19:30
to Thursday 30 May, 2013
21:30

Type of event :

Концерт

Where :

UNESCO Headquarters - Siège de l'UNESCO, 125, avenue de Suffren, 75007, Paris, France

Contact :

dl.russie@unesco-delegations.org, 01 42 12 84 30

Khachatur Badalyan, tenor Vladimir Galouzine, tenor, Ekaterina Sergeeva, mezzo-soprano and Oxana Shilov, soprano, will perform under the direction of Mikhail Tatarnikov, pieces of selected composers:

- Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
- Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Antonín Dvořák
- Giacomo Puccini
- Jacques Offenbach
- Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Georges Bizet

This event is organized on the occasion of the 1150th annivesary of Slavic Writing ; with reference to 1150th anniversary of the arrival of the missionaries Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia (863) who they created the Glagolitic alphabet and spread the use of Old Church Slavonic as a liturgical and literary language. Thus they laid the foundations of Slavonic literature and erudition.

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By invitation, limited seating capacity:
dl.russie@unesco-delegations.org,
01 42 12 84 30
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