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Guest Stars in the opera Turandot

On May 11, the music devotees of the Belarusian Bolshoi will enjoy an amazing  with the gorgeous Ahmed Agadi and Zhupar Gabdullina who will sing the lead parts in the of Maestro Puccini’s masterpiece opera Turandot.

The Honoured Artist of Russia, People's Artist of Tatarstan, the winner of Russia’s "Golden Mask" Theatrical Award Ahmed Agadi is a welcome guest and a favorite of the Belarusian audience. The stage of the Belarusian Bolshoi has become almost native for him, since the artist has sung a number of lead parts in the productions of world's opera masterpieces staged in our theatre: Radames in grand Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, Vaudémont in the romantic opera Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Cavaradossi in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, as well as he shone as Prince Calaf in Turandot at Minsk International Christmas Opera Forums in 2013 and in 2016.

Akhmed Agadi graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Professor E. Kibkalo). In 1993, he joined the company of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. For eleven years running he sang Bayan in Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka, Lensky in Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Mozart in Mozart and Salieri by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Young Gypsy in Aleko by Sergey Rachmaninov, Don Antonio  in Betrothal in a Monastery by Sergey Prokofiev, Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti, Harlequin in Pagliacci by Rugero Leoncavallo, Rodolfo in La boheme by Giacomo Puccini, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, Cavaradossi  in Puccini's Tosca, Faust  in the eponymous opera  by Gounod and Alfred in Der Fledermauss  by Strauss.

Since 2005, Akhmed Agadi  has been a soloist of the company of the Mariinsky Theatre. The brilliant tenor is known for singing most of the Italian repertoire on the stage of "Mariinka" including Verdi, Puccini, and Donizetti. The artist is constantly on tours, performing at the best venues in the world: the Amsterdam Opera, Royal Danish Opera, the Budapest Opera, the Strasbourg Opera, Colón Teatro in Buenos Aires. He has taken part in Baden-Baden Opera festival under the baton of Valery Gergiev where he sang Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and Rodolfo in La boheme by Giacomo Puccini. ‘Dramatic, romantic, sincere, possessing great stage presence,’ noted Dainis Kalns, the founder of the Opera Festival in Sigulda  describing Akhmed Agadi’s voice that  ‘has excellent technique, is of rare beauty and mobility,’ according to Kommersant newspaper.

The title female part in the tragic tale by Puccini will be performed by the prima of Astana Opera house, the Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Zhupar Gabdullina. She is already known to the Belarusian music lovers: in the current theatrical season, she appeared on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus in the role of Aida from the eponymous masterpiece by Giuseppe Verdi. By the way, this part can be called the jewel in her repertoire: in 2013 at the International Opera Festival "Giuseppe Verdi 200 years" Zhupar Gabdullina captivated the audience with her soulful performance and brilliant enactment of the role of Aida.

Zhupar Gabdullina is a graduate of the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory majoring in Solo performance. Since 2007, she has been a soloist of the Opera of the Kazakh State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Since 2013, she has joined the company of "Astana Opera".

Her repertoire includes the parts in the productions of Il Trovatore (Leonora), Un ballo in maschera (Amelia) and Attila (Voice) by Verdi , Turandot in the same title opera by Puccini, Pagliacci by Rugero Leoncavallo (Nedda), The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Lisa), Birzhan-Sara by Mukan Tulebaev (Sarah, Altynai), Abai by Zhubanov Akhmet (Azhar), Er Targyn by Brusilovsky (Dana), etc. Zhupar Gabdullina is the winner of Republican and International Singing competitions, laureate of the State Youth Award "Daryn", and the Grant recipient and the winner of the Fund of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the Leader of the Nation.

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