musicAeterna 2023

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882 – 1971) - Persephone

Diaghilev Festival – 2023

01.07 / sat / Shpagin Plant, House of Music, 21:00
02.07 / sun / Shpagin Plant, House of Music, 20:00

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882 – 1971)
Persephone, a melodrama for speaker, soloists, choir, dancers and orchestra based on a libretto by André Gide (1933)
Symphony of Psalms for Choir and Orchestra (1930, second edition 1948)

The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest actors and soloists
Alexander Ponomaryov "Vesna" Children's Choir

Director – Anna Guseva
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis

Persephone – Aisylu Mirhafizkhan
Eumolpus – Egor Semenkov

in memory of Herman Vinogradov
Στάσιμον
Introduction to the play "Persephone. Symphony of Psalms"
based on the poem by Theodor Currentzis "In the month of Anthesterion"
and a fragment from the tragedy of Aeschylus "Prometheus Chained"
Composer: Teodor Currentzis

Performers:
orchestra and chorus of musicAeterna
Lada Raskolnikova – sounding constructions of Bikapo
Egor Ananko, Viktoria Kharkevich, Marko Nikodijevic, Luka Kozlovacki – friu
Vera Sazhina – voice, shamanic tambourine
Yiorgos Kaloudis – classical cretan lyra
Alexey Retinsky – cauldron
Sofia Hill – voice in memory of Herman Vinogradov