Bolshoi Theater will give a concert to support construction of a cathedral church in Arkhangelsk

A charity concert will be given during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the revival of the Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory diocese. All receipts will be spent on the construction of the cathedral church of St.Michael the Archangel. The Andrei Rublev Heritage Foundation and the Foundation of St.Michael the Archangel sponsor the concert.

The concert will be given in the Grand Hall of the Arkhangelsk Philharmonic Society on February 5. Among the performers there will be the well-known musicians and opera singers, such as a national artist of the USSR Makvala Kasrashvili, national artists of Russia Vladimir Matorin and Vitaly Tarashchenko, honoured artists of Russia Vladimir Redkin, Marina Shutova and Yuri Rozum, a pianist. The Bolshoi Theatre stars will perform arias from Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Queen of Spades’ and ‘Eugen Onegin’; Mussorgsky’s ‘Khovanshchina’ and ‘Boris Godunov’; Borodin’s ‘Prince Igor’ and Russian folk songs.

The State Academic Northern Russian Folk Choir and the Episcopal Choir of St. Eliajah’s cathedral church of Arkhangelsk will also perform in the concert.