The Opera Centre soloists’ tour on Hungary has concluded the ninth theatrical season. The Opera Centre has performed Verdi’s opera Rigoletto at the prestigious Bartok+Verdi 2011 opera festival in Miskolc (Bartok+Verdi 2011 Miskolci Nemzetközi Operafesztivált).
The creative works by Bela Bartok are the festival core motif. However, its administration does not limit itself to it. At different times the creations by other great composers – Puccini, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bellini, Donicetti, Rossini, Cilea, Leoncavallo and many others have been presented.
On June 12th, the Gala-Concert by Centre soloists – Irina Dubrovskaya, Alina Shakirova, Alexey Tikhomirov, Yury Saltsman, Oleg Dolgov, took place at the Culture Centre of the Ozd city in the Festival framework. The concert program included opera fragments and chamber compositions by Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Verdi.
On June 13th, in a classicism style building built in 1856, the audience greeted the young singers with sincere affection, twice stopping the Rigoletto performance with a storm of applause.