{"id":2495,"date":"2023-01-05T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T10:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2023-01-06T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:42:23","slug":"musical-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/en\/musical-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Astana Opera will celebrate the bright holiday of Christmas. On January 7, the opera house\u2019s brilliant soloists will take the Kulyash Baiseitova Chamber Hall stage with an exciting concert program&nbsp;<\/strong><em><strong>Christmas Chimes<\/strong><\/em><strong>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That evening, the performers set themselves the task of creating a warm, cozy atmosphere and giving the audience a festive mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe approach this concert with great reverence and excitement. Christmas is a glorious holiday celebrated all over the world by people of various faiths. Therefore, this evening we want to share our feelings with our beloved audience, to unite people so that representatives of different faiths come to us and plunge into the dreamlike world of art, into the world of music,\u201d Yelena Sakhno, the organizer of the concert noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Margarita Dvoretskaya, Astana Opera\u2019s soloist, added: \u201cIn the New Year, I would like to wish everyone a peaceful sky, harmony, warmth, joy. Let music serve as a vehicle of friendship between peoples. Through music, a person discovers the best sides of his soul, becomes kinder and learns the world of beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Honoured Workers of Kazakhstan Margarita Dvoretskaya, Zhamilya Jarkimbayeva, as well as Madina Islamova, Malika Minisini, Arthur Gabdiyev, Narul Toikenov, Azat Malik and others will take part in the concert. Concertmasters \u2013 Yelena Sakhno, the Honoured Worker of Kyrgyzstan Gulshan Konusheva and Zaru Zhazykbayeva. The stars of the capital\u2019s opera house will perform ancient romances, sacred music, famous arias and duets from world opera classics, including the Snow Maiden\u2019s aria from Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s opera&nbsp;<em>The Snow Maiden<\/em>, Lisa and Polina\u2019s duet&nbsp;<em>Yzh Vecher<\/em>&nbsp;from Tchaikovsky\u2019s opera&nbsp;<em>The Queen of Spades<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Ave Maria<\/em>&nbsp;in the versions of Franz Schubert and Giulio Caccini and other works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, on&nbsp;<strong>January 15<\/strong>, a concert of music by Johannes Brahms&nbsp;<strong>Frei aber Einsam<\/strong>&nbsp;will be presented to the residents and guests of the capital. Well-known Kazakh artists, Honoured Workers of Kazakhstan \u2013 Astana Opera\u2019s principal soloist Aigul Niyazova and the principal first violin of the opera house\u2019s symphony orchestra Bagdat Abilkhanov, as well as talented instrumentalists \u2013 violist Olesya Morozova, pianists Andrei Morozov and Yekaterina Lapukhina will take the Kulyash Baiseitova Chamber Hall stage. Brahms\u2019 chamber works will be featured for the audience in a nuanced interpretation of the performers: Sonata for violin and piano No. 3, Sonata for viola and piano No. 2 in E-flat major, Two songs for voice, viola, viola and piano, as well as Scherzo in C minor from sonata F-A-E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astana Opera will celebrate the bright holiday of Christmas. On January 7, the opera house\u2019s brilliant soloists will take the Kulyash Baiseitova Chamber Hall stage with an exciting concert program Christmas Chimes. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/en\/musical-christmas\/\">\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0447\u0442\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musical Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}