In 2021, the Diaghilev Festival under the direction of Teodor Currentzis will return to its original format, once again presenting the latest achievements of modern European theatre and new musical trends. The festival opens on June 10 with Leonid Desyatnikov’s The Rite of Winter 1949, a large-scale symphonic and vocal work, performed by musicAeterna.
The ensemble will headline the festival and as such will take part in several events. For example, they will present two programmes, the result of a long search and experiment in the ensemble’s creative laboratory at Dom Radio in St. Petersburg. The best of the projects created over two years are included in the Diaghilev Festival programme. The Mystery Concert programme (June 15) features rarely performed works by baroque composers, 20th-century avant-garde authors, and contemporary masters. The unusual combination of instruments, from mandolin to saw, as well as extraordinary techniques of sound production and performance make each piece stand out and challenge both performers and audience. In a concert dedicated to the avant-garde poet Paul Celan (June 13), musicAeterna members will perform chamber pieces by contemporary composers based on the poet’s legacy.
The two choirs musicAeterna and musicAeterna byzantina, conducted by Teodor Currentzis and Antonios Koutroupis, will perform Byzantine chants, Russian and European sacred music, surprisingly fitted into the industrial space of the Shpagin Plant (June 12).
On the festival’s closing day (June 20), the musicAeterna orchestra will perform Masonic Funeral Music and Mozart’s last two symphonies, No. 40 and No. 41 (Jupiter), which won the audience in Russia and Spain on the ensemble’s first post-pandemic tour.
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