This concert is the second offering of the 2017 Cherry Orchard Festival which celebrates the international arts in the heart of New York City and beyond. Tickets for the June 7 concert, priced at $35. – $200. are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, or may be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie Hall website, carnegiehall.org or Cherry OrchardFestival.org. There is a 20% student discount with valid ID when purchased in person at the Box Office. There is a 10% discount to groups of 20+ and 15% discount to groups of 50+. For group sales, please contact the Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation directly for groups at 800.349.0021 or by emailing info@cherryorchardfestival.org
MOSCOW VIRTUOSI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, VLADIMIR SPIVAKOV, CONDUCTOR AND SOLOIST, ACCLAIMED SOPRANO HIBLA GERZMAVA, AND YOUNG ISRAELI CELLIST DANIELLE AKTA JOIN FORCES FOR CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7
April 6, 2017, for immediate release: Eminent maestro Vladimir Spivakov and the acclaimed Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, who recently sold out a concert at the Barbican Center in London, return to Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, June 7 at 8 PM as a part of their seven-city North American tour. Joining them are the brilliant soprano and Metropolitan Opera star Hibla Gerzmava – last heard at the Met in 2016 as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, and recently made her La Scala Opera debut in the title role in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena – and 14-year old Israeli prodigy, cellist Danielle Akta.
The eclectic orchestral program will include Mozart’s Divertimento No.1 in D major, K.136; Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110, dedicated “To the Memory of Victims of Fascism and War,” Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei Op. 47 for cello and orchestra; David Popper’s Concert Polonaise, Op.14 for cello and orchestra; Grieg’s Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (“The Wounded Heart” or “Hjertesår,” and “The Last Spring” or “Våren”); and Friedrich Gulda’s Hymn to Beauty. Ms. Gerzmava then joins the orchestra for an array of international opera hits and famous romances: Bellini’s “Casta Diva” from Norma; Verdi’s “Stretto” for Amalia from I Masnadieri; Francesco Cilea’s “Ecco…Io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana Lecouvreur; Poulenc’s “Les Chemins de l’amour”; and Ernesto De Curtis’s “Ti voglio tanto bene.”
