Articipants:

CITY OF CANYON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Myr. Conductor Constantine Orbelian (USA), director Algimantas Treikauskas

Soloists:

JULIA NOVIKOVA (soprano, Germany)

DMYTRO POPOV (tenor, Ukraine-Germany)

Conductor ROBERTAS SHERVENIKAS

Johann Strauss is a composer whose music has been delighting audiences for over two hundred years, making hearts beat to the rhythm of the waltz and transporting them to the enchanting atmosphere of Viennese festivals. The writer Alexander Dumas called him "the God who rules the passions", a description that is borne out by the enduring popularity of his work. The composer wrote more than 400 works, including 168 waltzes, 117 polkas, 73 quadrilles, 43 marches, scores for operettas and ballets. It is said that Strauss the Younger did for dance music what George Gershwin did for jazz, elevating it to the highest heights of symphonic music.

The Kaunas State Philharmonic, together with the Pažaislis Music Festival, is pleased to invite you to a concert to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the legendary composer's birth. The programme will include Strauss's most popular orchestral works, arias and duets from operas and operettas, which will fill the atmosphere of the evening with the spirit of Vienna.

Robert Šervenik will be conducting the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, which will create an extraordinary interpretation of the music that will engage both the musicians and the audience. The soloists of the concert are world-renowned performers. Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov, who has sung on Europe's most renowned stages as well as at New York's prestigious Metropolitan Opera, and his wife, the talented soprano Yulia Novikova, who has won acclaim on the stages of opera in Europe and South America. She is particularly famous for her role as Gilda in the television film of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, sung by Placido Domingo and Ruggero Raimondi, with the legendary Zubin Mehta conducting the orchestra.

Make this evening a wonderful celebration of music for all!

Don't miss this evening - it's not just about the music, it's also a time travel back in time to the Viennese balls, where Strauss's timeless waltzes were performed.