For the first time in the history of Slovenia, we will be able to see and hear the performance of the world-famous Russian orchestra, The Red Army Choir, Orchestra and Ballet. The Red Army Choir draws its repertoire from Russian folk songs, Russian patriotic songs and classical music (Bizet, Wagner, Mozart, Michel Legrand, Francis Lai, etc.), as well as pop and rock hits. On September 25, we will be able to witness a music and dance spectacle in Stožice in Ljubljana.
British newspaper Daily Telegraph called the Red Army Choir an indispensable part of Russian culture and a jewel of the world art scene. The choir - among other things - performed before the Pope John Paul II in Rome, he also performed at the swearing-in ceremonies of many Russian presidents, at the opening Olympic Games ceremonies in Moscow in 1980, at the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014, in San Remo and we could go on and on.
The assembly takes part every year on the ninth of May parades, as Russia celebrates victory in World War II. In September and December 2012, he participated in many TV shows and recorded three videos (Ameno, Carmina Burana and Caruso) for the project "Opera Rouge", which was awarded three platinum discs in France.
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Russian history and the Red Army Corps are inextricably linked. The men's choir was made up of soldiers whose job it was to raise the morale of the tortured troops and celebrate the spirit of the revolution, as their songs also evoke memories of the October Revolution. Since its foundation, only two choirs have owned the name Choir of the Red Army: the Aleksandrov ensemble (founded in 1929) and MVD ensemble (founded in 1939).
Chorus counts more than 400 artists (musicians, singers and dancers, including from the famous Bolshoi Theatre), and as many as 50 of them received the highest Russian state award "Emeritus Artist of Russia".
In order for this magnificent event with more than 150 singers, musicians and dancers to be colored even more in local colors, well-known Trieste partisan choir Pinko Tomažič, Otto Pestner and Lado Leskovar.
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