New Year's Concert of the Stradivarius Ensemble at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre

On December 31, 2024, the Stradivarius Ensemble performed a festive New Year's concert at the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, greeting listeners and guests with light, cheerful, and romantic works by Strauss, Lehar, Tchaikovsky, and Offenbach. The program featured soloists Inara Kozlovskaya (soprano) and Alexander Trofimov (tenor), as well as ballet dancers. The first act opened with Strauss's Quick polka "Thunder and Lightning" at 0:01:17, followed by Tchaikovsky's Waltz of Flowers at 0:04:40, and a succession of polkas and operetta arias, concluding with an intermission at 0:51:48. The second act resumed at 0:54:30 with Strauss's Indigo March, then included Offenbach's Cancan at 0:57:25, Kalman's aria at 1:00:06, and further polkas and arias through 1:16:53, before the encore began at 1:20:37 with Radetzky's March and finished with Strauss's Waltz "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" at 1:32:40.