Orchestra
Elena Makarova
Vladimir Sharifullin
Eldar Nagiev
Ekaterina Sivtsova
Ekaterina Moshkova
Tatiana Vostryakova
Evgenia Ivanova
Anna Guryeva
Elena Uskova
Natalia Zhuk
Julia Kuzova
Elena Mikhailova
Svetlana Tarasenko
Natalia Kazarnovskaya
Tatiana Ershova
Maria Tyutina
Olga Fayzullina
Polina Kovalchuk
Evgenia Masloboyeva
Violetta Berestenkova
Tatyana Kuznetsova
Sofia Nekrasova
Luiza Sabitkhanova
Eva Filatova
Maria Rogozina
Artyom Iyutin
Ekaterina Sibiryakova
Marina Averina
Elvira Abramenko
Olga Fridman
Anna Fomicheva
Ekaterina Lyzhina
Karina Pakharukova
Ekaterina Novokreschenova
Nikolay Eryomenko
Anna Petrova
Olga Tarkhanova
Lyubov Surkova
Tatiana Dyndina
Viktoria Fedorova
Olga Yurkina
Julia Guryanova
Valentina Astakhova
Daria Pack
Elena Ivaschenko
Elmira Kharina
Evgenia Vlasova
Roman Averin
Larisa Levitskaya
Anton Grishkin
Vladislava Markova
Olga Kitaikina
Irina Filatova
Valery Tolstykh
Ekaterina Artemieva
Ivan Saltikov
Alyona Kartseva
Vera Lazareva
Duman Zhamalkozh
Natalia Sokolova
Mikhail Shakirov
Irina Temirbaeva
Natalia Nagibneva
Dmitry Ivantsov
Vladimir Ishunkin
Lyudmila Romanova
Igor Lomatchenko
Darya Maklashova
Zoya Urakova
Ekaterina Uspenskaya
Aleksandra Onuchak
Vasily Kulagin
Yulia Vasilieva
Aleksandr Pozdnyakov
Sergey Kamyshev
Anton Pakharukov
Roman Stepanov
Evgeny Lyzhin
Evgeny Kuznetsov
Olga Buseva
Kristina Guskova
Roman Votyakov
Andrey Korotchenkov
Ilya Kolotovkin
Natalia Goncharova
Vladimir Dranitsa
Tatiana Yankovskaya
Sergey Brodsky
Olga Lisovitskaya
Natalia Obogrelova
Alla Melekhova
Yakov Nagovitsin
Pavel Kozhin
Dmitry Ivanenko
Nikolay Levashov
Sophia Afanasieva
Sergey Zaytsev
Arkady Makarov
Alexander Biryukov
Igor Balobolka
Vladimir Buzhigeev
Ilya Lunyushkin
Nikolay Shevchenko
Jury Gukovsky
Anton Titov
Valentina Popova
Konstantin Usov
Arsen Sarkazak
Ilya Karmanov
Natalya Usova
Igor Koscheev
Andrey Frolov
Dmitry Lykhin
Matvei Filimonchenko
Buyan Baikara
Vladislav Filipenko
Akim Zholbaskhanov
Nikolai Borisov
Mikhail Sokolov
Andrey Sivtsov
Sergey Yakovlev
Ivan Lazarev
Igor Matlak
Vladimir Pavlik
Alexander Teplyuk
Ivan Baklanov
Anton Masloboev
Ivan Kozin
Beibit Mukhamedin
Luisa Gimatdinova
Yury Duykov
Dmitry Klyauster
Danil Lykov
Alexander Shestakov
Denis Kostin
Svyatoslav Karagedov
Egor Kobelev
Sergey Afonasevich
Vladimir Vysotin
Grigory Eroshkin
Timofei Temirbaev
Stanislav Kosvintsev
Roman Oslopov
Roman Matusevich
Tatiana Kuchina

Guest conductors

Alberto Veronesi

Alberto Veronesi has made a name for himself as a modern-day maestro, combining his vast knowledge of repertoire, brilliant rapport with his fellow performers and an entrepreneurial savvy to great effect in his posts, performances and recordings. His success on the podium and behind the scenes developing projects has won him admiring audiences around the world.

Born in Milan, Veronesi studied at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi and, while still a student there, demonstrated his enterprising spirit by expanding on his conducting engagements with contemporary music concerts and founding the Guido Cantelli Orchestra, which has remained in residence at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi. He conducted the orchestra until 2000, including performances on tour at the Salzburg Easter Festival (at the invitation of Claudio Abbado), the Teatro alla Scala and the Maggio Musicale. In 1999, Veronesi was appointed Music Director of the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, where he has not only since conducted all of the composer’s operas but also contributed to the construction of a new opera house. In 2003, his production of La Bohème at the Festival won the Premio Abbiati, awarded by the Italian Music Critics Association. His performances at the Festival in 2009 included a new production of Manon Lescaut and a gala concert with soprano Angela Gheorghiu. In 2001, Veronesi was named Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo, where he performs complete cycles of symphonies by Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich, as well as giving prominence to 20th century Italian symphony music and continuing to programme contemporary works. Recently, he was also named Artistic Director of the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. In 2010, Veronesi was named Music Director of the Opera Orchestra of New York for the 2011-12 season.

By continually looking for ways to bring underexposed repertoire to a wider audience, Veronesi has embarked on a string of recording projects with Deutsche Grammophon, beginning in 2006 with a recording of Puccini’s Edgar on which he collaborated with Plácido Domingo and the Orchestra and Chorus of Santa Cecilia. In 2009, Deutsche Grammophon released his album of rarely performed Puccini arias and duets, sung by Domingo and Violeta Urmana with the Wiener Philharmoniker, as well as a recording of Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz with Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. Next season will see the release of three new recordings – Giordano’s Fedora with Gheorghiu and Domingo, Leoncavallo’s I Medici with Domingo and Leoncavallo’s I pagliacci with Gheorghiu and Alagna.

Veronesi has also recorded Leoncavallo’s La Nuit de mai with Domingo on an album that includes several arias performed with Domingo and pianist Lang Lang. In demand as a guest conductor in addition to his own projects, Veronesi has conducted in New York, Berlin, Brussels, Tokyo, Athens and Tel Aviv, including operas at the Maggio Musicale, the Deutsche Oper and La Monnaie.