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New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day is a time of miracles. It’s a time when every house, street, and town is imbued with an atmosphere of magic. It is a time when all people make wishes. New Year’s Eve and Christmas this time will be special for everyone.
The final touch to the year’s end will be the New Year’s Eve concerts broadcast by the Russian Cultural Foundation on Stay Home with Russian Season, a Russian Seasons international cultural project’s unique online platform.
On December 30, Thursday – New Year’s Eve Concert 2021 from the Russian Cultural Foundation. On New Year’s Eve, famous ballet dancers and opera stars will perform in the picturesque interiors of the 18th-century mansion. Winners of children’s and youth music competitions will also help the audience immerse themselves in the enchanting Christmas atmosphere.
On December 31, Friday – in support of the New Year’s concert marathon, a broadcast of The Russian Seasons international cultural project’s closing ceremony in the Republic of Korea will take place on the online platform ‘smotrim.’ A video message to the audience will be delivered by: Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation; Hwang Hee, Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Korea; Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director and Mariinsky Theatre’s Director; and Yuri Bashmet, Artistic Director of the Russian Seasons Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble and Ambassador.
A remarkable program prepared especially for the Korean audience: the most festive ballet performed by Russian Vaganova Academy of Ballet students – The Nutcracker to music by P. I. Tchaikovsky. The closing ceremony broadcast will be available on the ‘smotrim’ platform at 10:00 CET.
New Year’s Eve broadcasts on January 4, 6, and 8, 2022, will brighten up the holidays.
On Tuesday, Jan. 4, viewers will immerse themselves in nostalgia and remember what they were thankful for from the past year. The 2020 Christmas Concert at the Fabergé Museum is premiered by Russian Seasons in collaboration with RCCR Projects. On stage are world opera and ballet stars, including Mariinsky Theater soloist Elena Stikhina (soprano), winner of the Onegin National Opera Award and St. Petersburg’s Golden Sofit Theatre Award, and pianist Nikolaus Rexroth, flutist Sofia Wieland, choreographer Vladimir Varnava, Russian actor Vladimir Koshevoy, grant holder of the foundation ‘New Names’ 10-year old Mikhail Pirozhenko, laureates of international children and youth contests and others.
Thursday, January 6 – Christmas Eve. Stay Home with Russian Seasons will broadcast the 2021 Christmas Eve service from the Moscow Church of the Mother of God Icon ‘Joy of All Who Sorrow.’ The service is conducted by the temple Metropolitan rector Hilarion of Volokolamsk. The Moscow Synodal Choir, conducted by Alexei Puzakov, will sing Christmas carols.
On Saturday, January 8, the viewer will go with a guide to the Russian Museum of Ethnography, one of the largest ethnographic museums in Europe. At the museum, you can see for yourself how diverse and colorful the traditional culture of different peoples is, how each of them created their ethnic appearance under various living conditions and based on a centuries-old idea of beauty and dignity.
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