VietNamNet Bridge – The HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will host a night of Russian music featuring young and talented foreign artists on March 19 at the HCMC Opera House in District 1.

Thai violinist Anna Sowanna Takeda – Photo: Courtesy of HBSO

The show will be conducted by David Gomez Ramirez, who is one of the popular young conductors in Spain and who has conducted orchestras in Italy, France, Portugal, Holland, Belgium and Russia. In 2010, he received the “Giraldillo de Oro” prize from the Excellency Cultural Arts and Sciences Association, which is recognized by UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture of Spain.

Violinist Anna Sowanna Takeda, born 1992 in Bangkok, Thailand received the first prize at the Australian Music Examination Board in Thailand when she was ten. The artist also pocketed many awards at music contests for young talent in Thailand and Japan. She has been a soloist at many orchestras in Hungary, Cuba, Vietnam, Myanmar, Spain and Japan.

A highlight of the event is the performance of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto in D major, op. 35, one of the most played pieces in the world. It is played by Anna Sowanna Takeda.

The show also presents other typical pieces, including Overture “Dawn over the Moscow River” from opera Khovanshchina by composer Modest Mussorgsky and Vasily Kalinnikov’s Symphony No. 1 in G Minor performed by the HBSO Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets are priced at VND550,000, VND400,000, VND350,000 and VND200,000 while students pay only VND80,000.

The HCMC Opera House is located at 7 Lam Son Square in HCMC’s District 1.

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