Renée Flem­ing & Dmitri Hvorostovsky in St. Peters­burg
Con­stantine Or­beli­an & State Her­mit­age Or­ches­tra

Renée Flem­ing, Amer­ica's Queen of Op­era per­forms in the Palaces of the Czars with in­ter­na­tion­ally ac­claimed Rus­si­an bari­tone Dmitri Hvorostovsky St. Peters­burg is one of the most beau­ti­ful cit­ies on earth.

In this pro­gram Renée Flem­ing and Dmitri Hvorostovsky ex­plore the most spec­tac­u­lar corners of the city that was born in the re­mark­able mind of Peter the Great.

Renée Flem­ing and Dmitri Hvorostovsky have per­formed of­ten in St. Peters­burg. On this oc­ca­sion they will be singing op­er­at­ic duets and arias by Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Am­broise Thomas and Bellini. They are ac­com­pan­ied by Con­stantine Or­beli­an and the State Her­mit­age Or­ches­tra, and the pi­an­ists Olga Kern and Ivary Ilya.

Yusupov White Columns Room
Duet from Act I “Si­mon Boc­canegra” (G. Verdi)
Aria Casta Diva from “Norma” (V. Bellini)
“Ham­let”, Brind­isi - Ham­let’s Drink­ing Song (A. Thomas)
Act II “Travatore” (G. Verdi)

Yusupov Theatre
“Spring Wa­ters”
“In the Si­lence of the night”
“Don’t Sing to Me Fair Maid­en” (S. Rach­maninov)
“The Winter Even­ing” (N. Medtner)
“At the Ball” and
“Don Juan's Ser­en­ade” (P.I. Tchaikovsky)

Peterhof, Golden Hall – Ball­room
Lisa’s Area from “Pique Dame” (P.I. Tchaikovsky)
Ye­let­zky’s Area from “Pique Dame” (P.I. Tchaikovsky)
Epi­t­alama from “Nero” (N. Ruben­stein)
Nata­sha’s aria from “Opritch­nik”, “Mne pokas­alasj …” (P.I. Tchaikovsky)
Duet, last scene from last Act III “Ev­geni One­gin” (P.I. Tchaikovsky)