CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Kirov Orchestra

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 at 8:00 PM

Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
Soloists from the Mariinsky Theater
·· Mikhail Kit, Bass (Svetozar, Prince of Kiev)
·· Liudmila Dudinova, Soprano (Liudmila, his daughter)
·· Vadim Kravets, Bass (Ruslan)
·· Evgeny Akimov, Tenor (Bayan, a Bard)
·· Zlata Bulycheva, Mezzo-Soprano (Ratmir)
·· Alexei Tanovitski, Bass (Farlaf)
Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater
Andrei Petreko, Chorus Master

GLINKA Act I of Ruslan and Ludmilla
STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps

Perspectives: Valery Gergiev

Encores:
LIADOV Baba-Yaga
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "Dance of the Tumblers" from The Snow Maiden

This concert is underwritten by Yoko Nagae Ceschina.

Perspectives concerts are made possible, in part, by a generous grant from The Alice Tully Foundation.