The Most Beautiful Viennese Concert

“The Most Beautiful Viennese Concert” (Vienna Concert: Johann Strauss Gala, “In the World of Operetta”) is a programme of arias, duets, waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán. The Royal Orchestra will perform under the baton of Ivan Stetskyi. The cast includes:

• Anastasiia Yantsur – soprano
• Wiktoria Melnik – lyric soprano
• Michał Dziedzic – tenor/host
• Yoriy Hryhorash – baritone
• Dancers – soloists of the Odesa Opera Ballet

Ivan Stetskyi is a prize winner of international competitions and a graduate and lecturer of the National Music Academy in Kyiv. He early drew attention with performances of classical and contemporary works and with productions of operas by Lysenko and Shynkarenko at the Kyiv Opera. As a guest conductor, he has worked with European festivals and orchestras. He is a top-category conductor of the National Academic Orchestra of Ukraine, with which he presents premiere projects at the National Philharmonic in Kyiv and tours many European countries. His repertoire includes works by Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and Mahler, as well as masters of operetta.

Wiktoria Melnik studied opera singing at the National Music Academy in Kyiv. She made her debut as Micaëla in “Carmen” at the Lviv National Opera, and at the Burgas Opera in Bulgaria she performed the title role in “La Traviata”. She has won prizes in vocal competitions in Ukraine, Poland, Italy, Germany, Croatia and Bulgaria. Anastasiia Yantsur is a soloist with the Rivne Philharmonic and a graduate of the Odesa National Academy of Music. Her repertoire covers opera, operetta and musical music, songs and Italian vocal lyric. She is a laureate of international and Ukrainian competitions, a participant in The Voice, and a scholarship holder of the President of Ukraine for young artists in music. Her solo programmes include “On the Wings of Love”, “Con amore”, “Classica with Love” and “Hits of All Time”, and t