Music Without Borders “From Russia With Love”

Ukrainian soprano Uliana Alexyuk is a featured soloist at the Bolshoi Theater, where she has been singing since 2010. Her roles include Brigitta in Iolanta; First Lady in The Magic Flute; Adele in Die Fledermaus; Lyudmila in Ruslan and Lyudmila; Frasquita inCarmen; Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride; Fire, Princess, and Nightingale in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges; and, most recently, Amina inLa sonnambula. She returned there in December 2013 to sing Adele in Die Fledermaus. In 2011, she sang in the world premieres ofLe Cerisaie by Philippe Fénelon at the Opéra National de Paris and Lo stesso mare by Fabbio Vacchi at Teatro Petruzelli in Bari, Italy. Last summer she sang the role of Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos with the Glyndebourne Festival. She has won second prize in the Young Singers Contest in the Ukraine, third prize in the Paris Opera Awards, the Bella Voce Competition in Moscow, and the Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo.
Beth Madison Fellow
Soprano (Ukraine)
HGO Appearances: Current season: Ida in Die Fledermaus, Ivette in The Passenger, Gilda in Rigoletto, Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little Night Music, Frasquita in Carmen; HGO Studio Artist (2013–14).

Program

Borodin quartet N 1- In A
Moderato – Allegro
Andante con moto
Prestissimo

Andante – Allegro risoluto

Glazunov – two Novelettes
Vales
Alla Ungerese
St. Petersburg String Quartet

M.Glinka Ludmila’s aria “Ah ty, dolya-dolushka” from opera “Ruslan and Ludmila”
Arranged for St. Quartet by Aleksey Aronov
Rachmaninoff “Margaritki” “Daisies”
“Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne”
Arranged for St. Quartet by Aleksey Aronov

Alyabiev “The Nightingale”
Arranged for St. Quartet by Aleksey Aronov

Uliana Alexyuk, soprano and St. Petersburg String Quartet