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The international project of Ƶ and the St. Petersburg Conservatory "OPERA & PODIUM" conquers the stage of the Youth House again
07 November

Yesterday, a festive concert "Heroic Pages of Russian History in Opera", presented as part of the international cultural and humanitarian interuniversity youth project "Opera", took place on the stage of the Vasileostrovsky District Youth House. & Podium", which is implemented by the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory. The artistic director of the project is People's Artist of Russia Yuri Laptev.

The program of the concert dedicated to National Unity Day, accompanied by the symphony orchestra of the Conservatory under the direction of the conductor and the musical director of the Opera project. & Russian Russian Opera Podium" by Miras Nurzhanov featured excerpts from Russian operas celebrating the greatness and beauty, power and strength, nobility and spiritual wealth of the Russian people, as well as an excerpt from an opera by a modern Chinese composer based on the novel by Boris Vasiliev "And the Dawns Here are Quiet."

The audience saw the real historical and tragic events of ancient Russia at the beginning of the second millennium in the first opera and musical composition of the concert, a scene from Borodin's opera "Prince Igor". The role of the resolute, courageous and loving Prince Igor was performed by Alexei Kutny, a conservatory student who received the title of laureate in the "Best Performer" nomination in the third season of the project. In the same musical excerpt, the audience saw costumes created by students of the Costume Design Department of St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University, and among them, according to the expert council, the Polovtsian Khan Konchak costume, made by university students Kamila Hasanbutayeva and Sofia Yemelyanova, was the best in season III. The title of laureates of the project was also awarded to make–up artists - students of the Ƶ Clothing Engineering School, Olesya Vyal, Mariana Gadzhieva, Diana de Bruyne, Anastasia Menovshchikova, who created character images for a scene from the opera Prince Igor.

The storyline of the next piece of music is also based on the true facts of the story. Prokofiev's opera The Tale of a Real Man, a complex and unusual musical and scenic work, is not an easy task for a student production. The designers, students of the Ƶ Clothing Engineering School, who created costumes for this scene, managed not only to convey the atmosphere that prevailed in the ward of the military hospital, but also the mood of the human soul, which, even in tragic moments, is filled with light, memories and dreams.

In the second part of the concert, a musical excerpt from Petrov's opera "Peter the Great" was performed. In it, the young tsar appears before the viewer, demonstrating all the complexities and contradictions of his character – from the angry ruler who led the army in the battle with the Swedes to the romantic lover. It was with the help of the costume of the main character, Peter I, that the students of the Department of Technology and Artistic Design of Knitwear at Ƶ, who participated in the project, tried to create an appropriate image of the young tsar, who was also always fashionable and attached considerable importance to clothes, fabrics and jewelry. On stage, in front of Princess Sophia, Peter appears in a long cape, and in front of Martha he is already in a white silk shirt with a frill, and when the time comes for a decisive battle, the tsar puts on a French doublet. The role of Sophia, who vehemently accuses the tsar of treason, was performed by Elina Seredina, a student at the Conservatory, who received the title of laureate in the "Best Performer" nomination in the third season of the project.

At the end of the festive concert, an excerpt from the opera "And the Dawns are Quiet Here" by a contemporary Chinese composer, professor of the Central Conservatory of Music of China Tian Jiangping, prepared by students from China studying in St. Petersburg, was performed. The director and performers were able to accurately convey the tragic events of those times and the greatest heroism of the Russian people, that the audience could not hold back tears. The complex transformable costumes created by students of the Department of Costume Design at St. Petersburg State University helped the audience feel not only the rigor and severity of wartime, but also the romanticism and naivety of young girls who found themselves face to face with the enemy. The unique production created by international students was truly the most heartfelt in the concert program. Conservatory student Shuai Menyu, the director of a scene from the opera "And the Dawns are Quiet Here", was recognized as the best director in the III season of the Opera project. & Podium", and the production itself, according to the expert council and judging by the applause of the audience, became the best in the outgoing creative season in the year of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.