Leading soloists of the Bolshoi Theater performed at the international Opera Selecta festival in Croatia

A concert within the framework of the international festival Opera Selecta took place in the ancient Croatian city of Trogir with the support of the Russian House in Zagreb. It involved the leading soloists of the Bolshoi Theater.

Soprano Olga Seliverstova, mezzo-soprano Svetlana Shilova and baritone Konstantin Shushakov performed works by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov and P. I. Tchaikovsky. The soloists were accompanied by the pianist Vesna Podrug-Kasyanenko, well-known in Croatia and Austria.

“Soloists of the Bolshoi Theater are an undoubted and incredibly attractive brand of our country. However, not so many world festivals today present programs from the Bolshoi Theater in their playbills. We will fill this gap by actively filling the scores of festivals in different parts of the world with Russian music”, - said Narmin Shiraliyeva, advisor to the head of Rossotrudnichestvo.

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