Concert at the Palace on May 27 broadcast. "Classics on Dvortsovaya"

St. Petersburg City Day falls on May 27th. This year marks his 315th anniversary. In honor of this event, various festive events began to be held on the 20th, and today, May 26, a concert will take place on Palace Square.

The organizers of the holiday reported that the 315th anniversary of St. Petersburg will be celebrated with a bright, rich program that local residents and guests of the city will not be able to forget for a long time. Famous artists will perform at today's concert.

Festive events in St. Petersburg continue

On May 27, 2018, St. Petersburg turns 315 years old. The most intense program is planned for the weekend – the 26th and 27th. Today, guests and indigenous residents are invited to take part in the “sweet” ice cream festival: venue – pl. Ostrovsky. All motorcyclists will gather on Nevsky to participate in the parade, on the square. Manezhnaya will host “Motostolitsa”. In the evening, a concert program “Classics on Dvortsovaya” is planned, and then the festivities will continue on Admiralteyskaya Embankment - guests will be entertained by the light and music show “Singing Bridges”.

Tomorrow, May 27, the solemn program begins at 10:00: at this time there will be a laying of flowers at the monument to Peter I. In honor of the city’s anniversary, everyone will be allowed to attend on Senate Square. Then the events will move to Nevsky Prospekt, where everyone can become a participant in the flash mob for the hashtag #315St. Petersburg.

If there is a motorcycle parade on May 26, then tomorrow there will be a bicycle parade: cyclists will ride from the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall to the park named after. 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. After the flash mob, the avenue will not be empty: there will be a theatrical parade with the participation of an orchestra. In the evening, everyone will see colorful fireworks at the Peter and Paul Fortress.

During these two days, St. Petersburg will host a circus festival with a parade of retro vehicles, a Ball of Nationalities with a theatrical parade of drummers and orchestras. The main participants of the circus festival will be elephants.

The organizers revealed who will perform at the concert on Palace Square

The long-awaited gala concert “Classics on Dvortsovaya” will take place in St. Petersburg. Every year his program is completely different, this time the repertoire will become multifaceted. Famous artists will perform who will perform masterpieces by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Bizet, Verdi, Gounod, Strauss.

Tenor Roberto Alagna and soprano Alexander Kurzhak will appear on stage. The concert on Palace Square will be their debut. Also performing will be:

1. Venera Gimadieva - soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, winner of the Golden Mask;
2. Oksana Volkova - Honored Artist of Belarus;
3. Pavel Kolgatin - soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, soloist of the Vienna Opera;
4. Alexey Markov - soloist of the Mariinsky Theater and others.

There will also be a dance part, in which “Todes”, ballet dancers from the Theater. L. Yakobson, dance and sports club "Duet".

According to legend, exactly 315 years ago, Peter the Great stamped his foot and ordered the construction of a city in the Neva delta. Many were hostile to his idea and did not believe that it would be possible to open a window to Europe on the marshy lands near the Gulf of Finland. But the emperor proved the opposite, and for several centuries St. Petersburg has delighted millions of people from all over the world.

When is City Day celebrated?

City Day in the Northern capital is celebrated every year on May 27, but a number of events dedicated to the solemn date will take place the day before. That is, we will have two whole free days when we can walk, enjoy the sun and the approaching summer.

Where to go on holidays?

By the end of May, the trees in St. Petersburg are already green, fountains are working, and festive decorations are visible everywhere. Even just walking the streets these days is a real pleasure. But it’s better not to limit yourself to a simple promenade, because there will be so many interesting things happening around!

Retro transport parade

If suddenly on Nevsky you see buses, trolleybuses and cars from the past, don’t be surprised - this is. On May 26, a column of rare cars will begin its triumphal journey along the central streets and avenues. Keep your camera ready, or even better, come after 15:00 to Inzhenernaya Street, where there will be a stop. Everyone will be able to look into the salon and take unusual pictures.

On May 27 at 12:00 it will start from all over Russia. A bright flash mob will take place, in which singer IOWA and the dance group “Edelweiss” will take part. Also on holidays, a ship parade, a masquerade procession and a circus arts festival are planned.

Show "Singing Bridges"

When it gets dark, you can move closer to the water. On the night of May 27, the “Singing Bridges” show will be launched in St. Petersburg for the third time. It is expected that this year the crossings will be conducted to the music of Isaac Schwartz, a composer whose fame was brought to him by the melodies for the films “White Sun of the Desert,” “Star of Captivating Happiness,” and “The Brothers Karamazov.”

In honor of the Day, the city will be celebrated not with a recording, as is usually done, but with the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra.

Laying flowers to the Bronze Horseman

The holiday will be officially opened by the ceremony. Usually, the city's top officials and an honor guard participate in it, and ordinary citizens can only see the broadcast. But this year they want to open access to the Bronze Horseman to everyone, so be on Senate Square by 10:00.

Concert in the Peter and Paul Fortress

On May 27 at 12:00 a ceremonial shot will be fired from the bastion. It will symbolically open the festival, which will be held on the territory of Hare Island for the first time in recent years and will surprise the audience from the very first minutes. A costume show dedicated to the history of St. Petersburg will unfold on the stage in the form of a “Zenith plane”. He will be followed by Igor Kornelyuk and Tatyana Bulanova, and the headliners of the concert will be Irakli, the Pizza group and the disco tribe IOWA. The concert starts at 13:00, but you can come earlier - you won’t be bored.

Ice cream festival

Well, what would a holiday be without food! Come and eat ice cream on Saturday. At the festival you can try dozens of types of ice treats from different manufacturers, as well as take part in competitions, listen to music and just have a good time.

Show “Classics on Dvortsovaya”

Towards the end of the first day, the action will move to . In this beautiful open-air hall there will be a grand show for all residents and guests of St. Petersburg - “Classics on Palace Square”. The project involves stars of the Russian and world opera stage, ballet dancers, famous musicians and composers.

The concert starts at 21:00, admission is free.

Festive fireworks

The two anniversary days for St. Petersburg will end with a fireworks display. The first salvos will be fired at 23:00. An hour later, the torches of the Rostral Columns will light up.

The concert will feature music by Verdi, Rossini, Bizet, Leoncavallo, Kalman, Lehar, Strauss, and the main event will be the performance of Anna Netrebko.

Ticket: free
Dates: Fri at 21:00
Address: Palace Square
Start date: May 27, 2016
Date of completion: May 27, 2016

In honor of City Day, St. Petersburg residents will enjoy a grand concert on Palace Square. In evening St. Petersburg, from a stage decorated in the spirit of a magnificent ballroom, the best works of classics will be performed: Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, Kalman, Puccini and Strauss.

The event will be attended by the Mikhailovsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov and opera soloists, including People's Artist of Russia Anna Netrebko.

In the open air you will be able to listen to opera arias performed by tenor of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Yusif Eyvazov, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater Ildar Abdrazakov, star soprano Olga Peretyatko, soloist of the Moscow Novaya Opera Theater and guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Georgy Vasiliev and other famous performers.

The incredible performance will be complemented by dance numbers performed by world ballet stars and artists from St. Petersburg theaters. Among them are the theater “Mr. Pageau’s Wandering Dolls”, the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater named after Leonid Yakobson, etc.

On May 27 at 21:00 on Palace Square there will be a grand open-air “Classics on Palace Square”, a classical music concert dedicated to the Birthday of St. Petersburg.

A real celebration of classical art, held on Palace Square in honor of City Day - the Founding Day of St. Petersburg, over the course of several years it has turned into a vibrant cultural brand that attracts the attention of not only St. Petersburg residents, but also Russian and foreign tourists. The audience of the “Classics on Dvortsovaya” show is growing every year, and this year the public concert of world opera and choreography is expected to again attract over half a million spectators.

The program of the show, which has never been repeated in five years, promises to be special this time too: soloists of the leading opera stages of the world - La Scala, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Paris and Vienna Opera, including representatives of the national opera school, will perform exquisite classical works, ancient Neapolitan songs, fragments from famous operettas. Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Gounod, Saint-Saens, Lehar, Kalman - the works of these and other geniuses of classical art will be performed accompanied by the Mikhailovsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov, as well as one of the best youth choirs of the city. The unchanging principle of “Classics on Dvortsovaya” is only live music and live sound.

The list of performers for the upcoming season includes: one of the best tenors of our time, Marcelo Alvarez; a star in demand by leading opera houses, the inimitable soprano and the face of popular world brands Sonya Yoncheva; exquisite beauty, American opera diva, lyric soprano Danielle De Niese; an incendiary and bright performer with a worldwide reputation, guest soloist of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theaters Veronika Dzhioeva; deep velvet baritone Andrey Bondarenko; soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, tenor Alexei Tatarintsev, unique in technique and beauty of sound; soloists of the Mariinsky Theater - melodic, expressive tenor Sergei Skorokhodov and deep, regal mezzo-soprano Yulia Matochkina.

This year, “Classics on Dvortsovaya” will surprise you with even greater entertainment. The idea of ​​turning each performance into a mini-performance - with luxurious costumes, full-fledged drama and artistic atmosphere - will be enhanced by bright scenographic solutions. Five large LED video screens will be installed on Palace Square for spectators.

In total, over 200 square meters of video projection canvas will be used to create visual art effects in the square and on the stage.

As a gift to connoisseurs of ballet art, the program of the classical evening includes fragments from choreographic masterpieces performed by famous artists. The evening will be given a special, truly St. Petersburg atmosphere by performances by artists from the Wandering Puppets Theater of Mister Pejot.

The dance part of the show will be performed by the corps de ballet of the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater named after Leonid Yakobson

The project was implemented by order of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg.

This weekend, May 26 and 27, 2018, the city on the Neva celebrates its 315th birthday. Many events for City Day in the Northern capital are traditional - this is an ice cream festival, a ball of nationalities and a classical music concert on Palace Square. In 2018, the authorities have planned new events, no less bright and solemn.

Thus, in honor of the celebration of City Day in St. Petersburg in 2018, a large-scale bicycle parade will take place, which will block the city center on the morning of May 27. On May 27, circus performers will also march through the center - the procession of theatergoers, accompanied by live elephants, promises to be especially large-scale.

Equally bright events await citizens and guests in the coming hours - a classical music concert with the participation of invited opera stars will take place on Palace Square, and the Singing Fountains show will start at night - the light and music action will end with the passage between the wings of the raised Palace Bridge of a truly professional, and even hereditary tightrope walker

Classics on Palace Square 2018 - what will be presented to the public, who will perform

The concert, which starts at 21.00, promises to amaze with the number of professionals taking to the stage, bright decorations, excellent sound quality and mesmerizing ballet performances.

The action will last two hours - until 23.00, respectively.

The tradition of holding open-air concerts exists in many cities around the world and in Russia in particular. In St. Petersburg, the show is always different from others, because the city is congratulated on its birthday not just by stars, but by world stars of classical singing, the website reports. Both connoisseurs and simple onlookers who want to understand and feel the full power of the event try to join in the action.

At one time, it was here, at the “Classics on Dvortsovaya” concert, that for many years in a row one could hear the world-famous Russian performer Dmitry Hvorostovsky. The last time he sang here was last year, in May 2017, and in November he was taken on his last journey, because the singer was terminally ill. Anna Netrebko, a friend of Hvorostovsky’s harsh days and also a star of Russian and world opera, is also a regular at Classics on the Palace, but this year the concert will take place without her.

Despite the absence of the main headliners, the concert program will once again surprise fans of classical art with the versatility of the repertoire and the charismatic performance of masterpieces by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Bizet, Verdi, Gounod, Strauss and other great composers.

The stars of the evening will be a brilliant duet of stars of the world opera stage.

He is an outstanding tenor of our time, a bold experimenter and the owner of a truly Sicilian character. Music lovers around the world pronounce his name in the same breath as Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti.

She is the Polish “queen of improvisation” with the talent of a dramatic actress, the owner of an inimitably light soprano voice and simply a favorite of audiences around the world.

Together they are Roberto Alagna and Alexandra Kurzhak, a bright creative and married couple, and “Classics on Dvortsovaya” is their debut open-air in Russia.

This evening, St. Petersburg residents and guests of the city will be able to enjoy another magnificent soprano: winner of the BBC “Singer of the World” award Valentina Nafornitsa will take part in the open-air on Dvortsovaya for the second time. In 2015, the square applauded the brilliant duet of Valentina and Dmitry Hvorostovsky.

The real highlight of the Classics 2018 program will be the performers whose skills and talent are in demand at the most prestigious opera stages in the world. The golden voices of the Russian opera school will congratulate St. Petersburg on its 315th anniversary: Venera Gimadieva, Alexey Markov, Oksana Volkova, Pavel Kolgatin, Alexey Tikhomirov Alexander Trofimov.

The dance part of the show will be graced by soloists of the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky theaters and the ballet of Alla Dukhova "TODES", ballet dancers of the Leonid Yakobson Theater. Premiere performance of the dance and sports club " DUET", the current world champion in Latin American dance, will spice up the “Classics” program with unbridled expression and mesmerizing synchronicity of performance.

Let us note that “Classics on the Palace” began its history five years ago, in 2013, and has become a good tradition for celebrating City Day in St. Petersburg.

You can also watch the concert on the Kultura TV channel and online on the Internet.

Traffic closure in St. Petersburg on May 26

The concert, which will last about two hours, will undoubtedly be an excellent culmination of the first day of the city's anniversary celebration. At the same time, some inconveniences await city residents - the classic will block the center of St. Petersburg for motorists, because countless people usually gather for a free concert.

By the way, this year “Classics” is also the decoration of the end of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum - a large-scale event with the participation of professionals from all over the world.

Motorists should be aware that the city center will be closed to traffic and plan their route due to traffic restrictions.

• Millionnaya Street from Palace Square to Moshkov Lane;
• Pevchesky passage;
• embankment of the Moika River from Pevchesky Proezd to Nevsky Prospekt.

By the way, sudden traffic jams have been observed in St. Petersburg for several days now, since May 24 - residents are sure that the traffic closures are associated with the passage of motorcades of forum participants.