The National Academic Opera Theatre of the Republic of Belarus is giving performances in Canary Islands and will go to Germany in August, BelTA learnt from Director of the theatre Valery Gedroits.

Spain is hosting an opera festival in Canary Islands in July-August. The Belarusian opera artists are engaged in the plays Nabucco and La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi and will perform Requiem by Mozart.

The second part of the theatre company will bound for Germany to partake in an opera festival in the towns of Monschau and Saarbrucken on August 26-29. The Belarusian artists will play Madame Butterfly by Puccini and Nabucco by Verdi. The soloists of the Belarusian opera will perform Puccini’s Tosca, the Barber of Seville by Rossini and will take part in a gala-concert.

After the tours that traditionally establish cultural contacts, the National Academic Opera Theatre will open the 76th theatre season with Verdi’s Aida on September 16. The repertoire will include new plays – Rakhmaninov’s Aleko and Verdi’s Macbeth. The theatre company has almost prepared for the play Macbeth – made costumes, scenery and held rehearsals. The full version of the play will be staged in the National Academic Opera Theatre of Belarus in 2009.

Valery Gedroits added that the Belarusian opera has always had success in the country’s regions. The soloists performed at the Summer Amphitheatre. Vitebsk saw the play Carmen by Bizet within the cultural action We Are Belarusians. The soloists of the Belarusian opera also gave concerts in Gomel, Bobruisk, other towns, agro-towns, rural settlements.