A premiere of a new concert program "Love Forever" by "Helikon-Opera" - will be held at the Moscow State Variety Theatre

14.10.2013

A premiere of a new concert program "Love Forever" by "Helikon-Opera " will be held at the Moscow State Variety Theatre 

Moscow musical theater "Helikon-Opera" under Dmitry Bertman
Moscow State Variety Theatre
October 31, 19.00
Moscow, Bersenevskaya enbankment, 20/2
The premiere of the concert program "Love Forever"

Performances with opera stars and rock musicians or pop groups always attract attention. They are not frequest and usually resemble a short intervention into enemy’s territory, where everything is different.

Moscow musical theater "Helikon-Opera" has already annexed the territory of the Soviet opera and folk songs, romances, and even songs from the cartoons, staging such performances as "Kalinka-Opera", "Cartoons-opera", “Back in the USSR”. Now the People's Artist of Russia Dmitry Bertman carries out a new experiment, visiting Moscow State Variety theatre with "Helikon”’s troupe.

On the 31st of October at the Moscow State Variety Theatre a new program of "Helikon-Opera " - "Love Forever” will be performed. It includes twenty one love song, romantic hits of the past century , lyrical music, beloved by several generations . Almost half a century ago, "The Beatles" sang the immortal hit «All You Need Is Love». This simple idea, which cannot be refuted , sounds in «I Believe in Love», «Je suis malade», «Only You», «Lady in Red», «Love Me Tender» and many other songs in different languages, all recognizable from the first notes . The program mostly consists of the songs of the 1960s, when there was a real musical burst out. Soloists of " Helikon-Opera" will perform songs from the repertoire of Marilyn Monroe, Demis Roussos , Tina Turner, Adriano Celentano and many other world famous artists.

This project is not the first collaboration between State Variety Theatre and "Helikon -Opera". Their creative friendship started since Gennady Khazanov had headed Variety Theatre . On January 13, 1998 "Helikon-opera" performed "Die Fledermaus" on the stage of the theatre. The same evening, Gennady improvised the role of Johann Strauss having achieved great likeness with the composer. Joseph Kobzon sang Rubinstein ‘s "Epithalame" and the Aleko’s aria at the Prince Orlovsky’s ball and Vyacheslav Voynarovsky pretended Pavarotti. This performance was recorded by "TV Center" company.

And now there is a new project of two Moscow theaters. Old songs have found a new sound with the soloists, chorus and orchestra of "Helikon-Opera". Famous composer Kirill Umansky, the laureate of the BBC’s first contest of contemporary Russian composers on YouTube and the owner of "Golden Mask" for a new opera orchestrating of "Running" by Nicholas Sidelnikov, prepared the arrangements. Umansky works both with academic ensembles and with rock bands and believes that there is nothing impossible for a symphony orchestra : "The orchestra melts everything".

Thanks to a well-known businessman and philanthropist Michael Kusnirovich, soloists , chorus and actors will appear on the stage, dressed in Bosco di Ciliegi attires.

The two Moscow theaters invite everyone who loves good music and live sound to see and hear the results of "melting" the famous love songs.