Iveta Manasherova

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President of the Vivarte Festival

Dear friends!

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We are happy to welcome all the guests and participants of the VIVARTE festival after the pandemic, and it is especially nice to see the concert halls full. This year's festival, like a few years ago, will be preceded by a large autumn exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery – this time dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. It will feature items from the museum's archives that have never been exhibited before, such as costumes for performances.

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The music program of the seventh festival, despite its conciseness, as always, is diverse and will allow everyone to find something interesting in it for themselves. In addition, for the first time in the framework of VIVARTE, a theatrical project will be held – a performance dedicated to the creative association "World of Art", one of the organizers and leader of which was Diaghilev. During the three festival days, we tried to maximize the scale of Diaghilev's personality through the work of composers with whom he collaborated (from Rimsky-Korsakov to Richard Strauss), and to follow his fate from "acquaintance" in the play to death in Venice.

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We will be glad to meet you in the Vrubel Hall!

Iveta and Tamaz Manasherov,

President of the VIVARTE Festival