Schedule for World opera star Vasily Gerello and Terem-Quartet 2022

Baritone: Vasily Gerello
Orchestra: Terem-Quartet

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

Vasily Gerello
Prizewinner of BBC International Vocal Competition (Cardiff, 1993);
prizewinner of International Rimsky-Korsakov Competitiion (St Petersburg, 1994);
prizewinner of St Petersburg theatrical prize "Golden Sophit" (1999).

Born in Chernovitsky region . Graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire (class of Prof. N.A. Serval) in 1991. Joined the Mariinsky theatre in 1990.

His repertoire includes: Giorgio Germont (La traviata), Valentin (Faust), Pastor (Khovanshchina), Napoleon (War and Peace), Pantalone (The Love for Three Oranges), Balearaic Islander (Salambo), Tomsky/ Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Robert (Iolanthe), Papageno (Die Zauberflote), the Duke (Miserly Knight), Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Simon Boccanegra, Marcello (La boheme), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Alphio (Cavaleria rusticana), Philippo (Beatrice de Tenda), Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Don Carlo (La forza del destino), Tonio (I pagliacci), Don Carlo (Ernani), Il Conte di Luna (Il trovatore), Amonasro (Aida).
Toured with the Mariinsky Theatre in Spain, Italy, Scotland (Edinburgh Festival), France, the Netherlands, the United States (Metropolitan Opera House), South America, Lebanon, Germany (Baden Baden Festival) ect.
Has performed at Opera de Bastille, Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro Colon, Metropolitan Opera House, Netherlands Opera, teatro alla Scala, Teatro La Fenice among others.


Terem-Quartet
St.-Petersburg‘s ensemble "the Terem-Quartet" by its playing is able to win any international audience. They have traveled round the world, and still remain Russian musicians who can express the heart of their nation.
From their first appearances, the Terem Quartet overthrew the Soviet era stereotype of folk music as something far from real life. The band could not be classified into any of existing music categories or genres. Their music has always been created as a joint effort. In fact, the audiences were offered music by a unique composer, a person with a strange name: The Terem Quartet. That‘s where they differed from academic performers, and that‘s where they followed the traditions of the Skomorokh ensemble performance in Ancient Russia. Their theatrical behavior on stage, their fantastic stage costumes... everything was very unusual and thrilling. The Terem musicians have felt and grasped the most essential phenomena of the 20th century: the idea of style diversity, dialogue thinking, and synthesis of different musical trends within one style. Their music uses "multi-stylistic" tricks - quotations from anywhere, allusions, hints, and the performance is usually ironical. And in each case, their versions of music, be it ‘schoolbook‘ European classics or traditional melodies, are always provocative, unexpected for the listener.
The art of the Terem Quartet combines different traditions in music: village and urban folklore, jazz, and classics. All this musical mosaic is the spiritual fire in the music, its emotional drive. The music of the Terem Quartet is full of dramatic contrasts. The musicians have some of the Romantic ‘hearing‘ of music, an ability - a rare case today - to ‘feel feelings‘, as the Romantics used to say. But, unlike Romanticism, they do not push the audience their way, but are in a continuous dialogue with them, typical of music in the 20th century. In fact, the musicians have invented a style of unchained genres, a style showing the sensual essence of every piece played, a style that requires a musical dialogue with the cultural reminiscences of the audience. Born on Russian soil, the Terem Quartet easily fitted into the world musical context of today. They play by Russian folk instruments and their main desire to communicate in today‘s musical language.

Terem-Quartet official website eng.terem-quartet.ru