Helikon-Opera is celebrating its 18th anniversary

11.04.2008


Helikon opera is celebrating its 18th anniversary


On the 10th of April Helikon-Opera presented a concert of artists of the orchestra, devoted to the 18th anniversary of the theatre. Soloists of the theatre - People's Artist of Russia Natalia Zagorinskaya, Honoured Artists of Russia Alisa Gitsba and Elena Ionova, Maria Lobasheva, Elena Semenova, Ekaterina Trebeleva, Honoured Artist of Russia Nikolay Dorozhkin and Mikhail Verbitsky took part in the event. The presenter was Alexander Borodovsky, the director of the concert. Conductor - People's Artist of Russia, laureate of State USSR Prize professor Eugeniy Brazhnik.


Harro van Graafeiland, director-general of TNT Express company, a friend and a sponsor of the theatre, came to congratulate the theatre.Harro van Graafeiland read a verse, specially composed for the theatre's birthday. He also presented us with the oranges basketful.


The first part of the concert consisted of four fragments of Vagner's operas, performed by orchestra artists. By these works theatre made a creative request for the future, after all Helikon peope believe that on a new stage of reconstructed Nikitskaya building theatre will be able to realise more monumental productions. In the second part there were excerpts from operas by G. Puccini, P. Mascagni, J. Massenet. All soloists brilliantly performed their parts. Ovations followed the concert.





























Harro van Graafeiland and Alexander Borodovsky



Orange gifts from TNT



Orchestra artists



Elena Semenova and Eugene Brazhnik



Mikhail Verbitsky



Elena Ionova


 


 


Natalia Zagorinskaya



Nikolay Dorozhkin and Maria Lobasheva



Ekaterina Trebeleva



Alisa Gitsba, Evgeniy Brazhnik and artists of the orchestra



Bows

Photos by Svetlana Gorodova
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