572893 bk Alieva EU_572893 bk Alieva EU 20/11/2012 13:21 Page 1 Dmitry Yablonsky Dinara Alieva Dmitry Yablonsky was born in Moscow into a musical Dinara Alieva was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and graduated family. His mother is the distinguished pianist Oxana at the Music Academy there. She is a laureate of Yablonskaya, and his father Albert Zaionz has for thirty international competitions, including the Operalia years been principal oboist in the Moscow Radio Competition (Milan, La Scala, 2010), the Francesco Viñas Orchestra. Dmitry began playing the cello when he was Competition (Barcelona, 2010), the Maria Callas five and was immediately accepted by the Central Competition (Athens) and the Elena Obraztsova RUSSIAN Music School for gifted children. When he was nine he Competition (St Petersburg). In 2010 she gave a joint made his orchestral début as cellist and conductor with concert with Plácido Domingo in Baku, and she was Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major. In Russia he awarded the title of Honorary Artist of Azerbaijan. In the studied with Stefan Kalianov, Rostropovich’s assistant, 2012 season she made her début at the Vienna State SONGS and Isaak Buravsky, for many years solo cello of the Opera as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), and at the Frankfurt Bolshoy Theatre Orchestra. Before immigrating to the Opera as Violetta (La Traviata), and was immediately asked United States he performed on many occasions in back for new productions in the following seasons in both AND ARIAS Moscow and many cities of the former Soviet Union. theatres. Dinara Alieva is a soloist of the Bolshoy Theatre, He was finally able, in 1977, to obtain a visa that where she performs the principal rôles in leading allowed him and his mother to move to New York, productions. It was here that she made her début as Liù in where he became a pupil of Lorne Munroe at The Turandot. Other rôles include Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Juilliard School of Music. In 1979, at the age of sixteen, of Leonora (Il Trovatore), Mimì (La Bohème), Violetta (La he participated in the Marlboro Music Festival in Traviata), Nedda (Pagliacci), Michaela (Carmen) and Marfa Rachmaninov Vermont, the youngest to do so that summer. In 1980 (The Tsar’s Bride). Before joining the Bolshoy, Dinara Alieva he met Aldo Parisot, distinguished cellist and professor was a soloist of the Baku Opera and Ballet Theatre at Yale University, where he spent four years, at the Company. She also sang Violetta at the Mikhailovsky Tchaikovsky same time furthering his interest in conducting. After Theatre in St Petersburg, and again in a memorial concert graduating from Yale, he spent two years in the artist performance dedicated to Maria Callas at the Thessaloniki diploma programme at The Juilliard School with Zara Concert Hall and in the Megaron concert hall in Athens. She Nelsova. Dmitry Yablonsky made his début as a participated in the Elena Obraztova jubilee gala at the Rimsky-Korsakov conductor in Italy at the age of 26, when he stepped in Bolshoy Theatre and at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Recent to replace another conductor at the last minute. As a engagements have included the part of Leonora (Il cellist he has played in major concert halls throughout Trovatore) at Klagenfurt, and Donna Elvira and Violetta, the world, and in chamber music has collaborated with both at the National Opera Riga. Dinara Alieva has worked distinguished colleagues. For four years he has been with leading conductors, including Yuri Temirkanov, with Principal Guest Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic whom she performs specially tailored programmes, Vladimir Photo: Lluis Costa Photo: Damir Yusupov Dinara Alieva, Soprano Orchestra and has conducted many other orchestras, Fedoseyev, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Spivakov, Dmitry including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborating with leading soloists. He is also Principal Guest Yurovsky, Plácido Domingo, Fabio Mastrangelo, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marcello Rota and José Cura, and with leading Conductor of the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra. Dmitry Yablonsky has made more than seventy Russian orchestras, including the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra. New Russia State recordings, many of them prize-winning, as conductor and cellist for Naxos, Erato-Warner, Chandos, Belair Music, She regularly appears in prestigious concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Salle Gaveau in Paris and the Sonora, and Connoisseur Society. He has organized international festivals, including the Wandering Stars Festival, Smetana Hall in Prague. Under the baton of Dmitry Yurovsky she sang at the Russian Seasons festival in the opera theatre which takes place in different countries each year. He is Co-Artistic Director of Qabala Music Festival in Azebaijan. in Monte Carlo. She has also performed in Japan. 2013 sees her début at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Violetta, returning Symphony Orchestra In 2009 he became an academician of the Independent Academy of Aesthetics and Liberal Arts in Moscow, and also the following year as Donna Elvira and in 2015 as Magda (La Rondine). She returns to the Vienna State Opera as Violetta professor of cello at the Baku Academy of Music. in 2013, and will also perform there the rôle of Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) in 2014. Dmitry Yablonsky 8.572893 5 8.572893 6 572893 bk Alieva EU_572893 bk Alieva EU 20/11/2012 13:21 Page 2 Russian Songs and Arias seeking a midnight meeting. The ghost of the Countess however, to desert her husband and rushes from the ne nado (Oh, do not weep, my Paolo) 6, telling him that Marfa sings of her life in Novgorod, V Novgorode (In appears and unwillingly reveals the secret of the three room, leaving Onegin in solitary desolation. they may be united in a future life in Heaven. Amid a Novgorod) 3. Gryaznoy seeks a love potion from his Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky retains his position as the most lover rides by to the hunt and how she might have awaited cards, Three, Seven and Ace, bidding him marry Lisa. Sergey Rachmaninov had won a firm reputation in storm, Lanceotto enters, behind the lovers, and comes mistress, Lyubasha, who determines on revenge, popular of all Russian composers. Born in 1840, he had him in the evening, by the well. Ya li v pole da ne She waits anxiously for Hermann by the river Russia before the changes of 1917. Thereafter he chose forward to kill them both, their spirits seen finally in the providing a potion she acquires from Bomelius, the his early education, in music as in everything else, at travushka bïla? (Was I not a blade of grass in the field?) embankment, her feelings expressed in her Uzh polnoch’ exile, obliged to support himself rather as a pianist than Epilogue, buffeted by the winds of Hell. Tsar’s physician, that will destroy her rival’s beauty. The home, under the care of his mother and of a beloved 9, the seventh song, takes a version of Shevchenko’s blizitsya… Akh, istomilas’ ya (Midnight is near… I am composer, relying on his phenomenal technique as a Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov belonged to Tsar Ivan seeks a bride and chooses Marfa, who is now governess. From the age of ten he was a pupil at the Ukrainian song by Ivan Zakharovich Surikov and treats it tired) 7, comforted by his declaration of love, when he player. The earlier years were spent in Europe, but the group of five pioneer nationalist composers originally ill. Gryaznoy blames Likov, whom he kills, but eventually School of Jurisprudence in St Petersburg, going on to take in a very Russian manner. The words express the sad eventually arrives, but distraught when he leaves her for eventually he took refuge in the United States, which had led by Balakirev, four of them, at least, initially amateurs. admits what he has done. Lyubasha now confesses how employment in the Ministry of Justice. During these years despair of a young girl, married off by her parents to an the gaming-house. Left alone, she throws herself into the always proved a profitable source of income during his His fifteen operas have fared indifferently in theatres she has provided a different potion, and Gryaznoy kills he developed his abilities as a musician and the old man for whom she has no love. river and drowns. In the gaming-house Hermann plays concert tours. It was there that he died in 1943. outside Russia, where they remain novelties rather than her. Marfa is now out of her mind, and in her final, mad foundation of the new Conservatory of Music in St In the opera house only two of Tchaikovsky’s operas against Yeletsky, winning on his first two cards, the three Among Rachmaninov’s most popular compositions is standard repertoire. Tsarskaya Nevesta (The Tsar’s scene identifies Gryaznoy with her beloved Likov, calling Petersburg under Anton Rubinstein enabled him to study are in regular international repertoire, Eugene Onegin and and the seven. At his final stake, however, he is the Vocalise 1, a wordless vocal piece, which has been Bride), was first staged at the Solodovnikov Theatre in him to join her in the garden in Ivan Sergeich (Ivan there as a full-time student from 1863. In 1865 he moved The Queen of Spades, both based on Pushkin. The confronted, now in clear madness, not by the winning ace much arranged, but originally formed part of a set of Moscow in 1899. The nobleman Gryaznoy, a member of Sergeyevich) 4. The Tsar’s Bride is a thoroughly to Moscow as a member of the staff of the new second of these, first staged at the Mariinsky Theatre in St but by the Queen of Spades, seeming to regard him with songs published in 1916.