Iveta Simonyan
Soprano
She was born in Novosibirsk. She graduated from F. Murov Novosibirsk Music College (the class of Aigul Beralinova) and the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (the class of the People's Artist of Russia, Professor Olga Kondina). Iveta participated in master classes by Dmitry Vdovin, Tamara Novichenko, Mario Diaz, and Teodor Currentzis. She is the winner of Russian and international competitions, including the VIII New Opera World International Opera Competition (diploma, Moscow, 2020), the Opera Bella International Music Festival and Competition (special prize of the Chairman of the Jury, Moscow, 2021), the XXXV Sobinov Music Festival Vocal Competition (II Prize, Saratov, 2022), and the All-Russian Review Vocal Competition (Saint Petersburg, 2024). In 2023, she made her debut in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute as the Queen of the Night on the stage of the St Petersburg Music Hall Theatre. Since the 2023/2024 season, she has been a soloist of the opera troupe at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2024, as a member of the opera troupe at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, she took part in the First Far East Easter Festival. She has collaborated with such conductors as Philipp Chizhevsky, Fabio Mastrangelo, Dmitry Matvienko, Yuri Kochnev, and Ivan Khudyakov-Vedenyapin. Her repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theater includes the parts of the Queen of the Night (Mozart's The Magic Flute), Gilda (Verdi's Rigoletto), Voices from Heaven (Verdi's Don Carlos), Frasquita (Bizet's Carmen), Norina (Donizetti's Don Pasquale), Marfa (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride), Ninetta (Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges), and Brigitte (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta).
Events
Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)
Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris
Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam
Performers:
She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)
Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris
Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam
Performers:
She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)
Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris
Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam
Performers:
She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)
Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris
Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam
Performers:
She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759)
Prelude
Augelletti, ruscelletti, the aria of Maria Kleopova from the oratorio La resurrezione, HWV 47 (1708)
Zadok the Priest, Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV 258 (1727)
Disserratevi, o porte d’Averno, the aria of Angel from the oratorio La resurrezione, HWV 47 (1708)
Ah! Crudel nel pianto mio, the aria of Armida from the opera Rinaldo, HWV 78 (1711)
Overture to the opera Agrippina, HWV 6 (1709–1710)
As with Rosy Steps the Morn, the aria of Irina from the oratorio Theodora, HWV 68 (1750)
De torrente in via bibet, duet with chorus from the psalm Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 (1707)
Oh, Let the Merry Bells Ring Round, aria with chorus from the oratorio L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 (1740)
Pena tiranna, the aria of Dardano from the opera Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11 (1715)
Eternal Source of Light Divine, fragment from the cantata Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74 (1713)
Alla Hornpipe, No. 2 from the orchestral suite
The Water Music No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349 (1716–1717)
He Saw the Lovely Youth, chorus from the oratorio Theodora, HWV 68 (1750)
Piangerò la sorte mia, the aria of Cleopatra from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (1724)
Ah! Stigie larve — Vaghe pupille, the recitative and aria of Orlando from the opera Orlando, HWV 31 (1733)
O Love Divine, thou Source of Fame, chorus from the oratorio Theodora, HWV 68 (1750)
Sing Ye to the Lord, chorus with solo soprano from the oratorio Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (1739)
Performers:
artists of the Anton Rubinstein Academy
Tatiana Bikmukhametova, soprano
Yulia Vakula, mezzo-soprano
Ksenia Dorodova, soprano
Diana Nosyreva, soprano
Iveta Simonyan, soprano
Sofia Tsygankova, soprano
Andrey Nemzer, countertenor, soloist and vocal coach of the Anton Rubinstein Academy
musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra
musicAeterna Dance troupe
Music Director and Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Stage Director Elizaveta Moroz
Choirmaster Vitaly Polonsky
Assistant Conductor Evgeny Vorobyov
Production Designer, Costume Designer Sergey Illarionov
Choreographer Valentina Lutsenko