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MINSK, 9 January (BelTA) – Brest will be hosting the 27th international classical music festival January Music Nights on 9-12 January, BelTA learnt from the organizers of the event.

The music forum will gather more than 300 singers from 11 countries: Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Moldova, Georgia, China, the UK, and Sweden. The program of the festival will feature four evening shows and three day concerts. The main venues will be the Brest Academic Drama Theater, the big and small halls of the Shirma Music College, and the catholic church that will host the concert of organ music.

Partaking in the opening show will be legendary baritone, People’s Artist of Russia Sergei Zakharov who will perform some arias from operas and old Russian romances.

The program of the January Music Nights will include operas. The Molodechno Youth Music Theater will perform the opera in two acts “Michal Kleofas Oginski. Unknown Portrait” on 10 December, the second day of the festival. The first night of the opera by composer Oleg Zaletnev was held in Molodechno a year ago. The art director of the project is Merited Art Worker, main conductor of the symphonic orchestra of the Oginski Molodechno Music College Grigory Soroka. Sergei Makarei is the director and author of the libretto.

The traditional Christmas Ball will be held on 11 January. One of the festival evenings will be dedicated to the old friend of the festival, famous pianist, People’s Artist of Belarus, Professor Igor Olovnikov. The highlight of the closing ceremony will be the performance by People’s Artist of the USSR, tenor soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Vladislav Pyavko.

The festival will be wrapped up with a creative program on 12 January.

The international classical music festival January Music Nights is organized by the Brest Oblast Executive Committee, the Brest City Hall, the Belarusian Culture Ministry, and the Belarusian Union of Music Artists.