{"id":20439,"date":"2025-10-16T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/kritskov-valery-conductor\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:48:12","slug":"kritskov-valery-conductor","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/kritskov-valery-conductor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kritskov Valery, conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P align=justify>Valery Kritskov, conductor of the Novaya Opera Theatre, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Culture with a degree in opera and orchestra conducting (Professor Tikhonov\u2019s class) in 1988. He worked for the Helikon-Opera Theatre of Moscow for a long time before joining the Novaya Opera Theatre in 2002.<BR><BR>In the Novaya Opera Theatre he conducts Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s <STRONG>The Snow Maiden<\/STRONG> and The <STRONG>Tsar\u2019s Bride<\/STRONG>, Rubinstein\u2019s <STRONG>The Demon<\/STRONG>, Tchaikovsky&#8217;s <STRONG>The Maid of Orleans<\/STRONG> and <STRONG>The Queen of Spades<\/STRONG>, Mussorgsky\u2019s<STRONG> Boris Godunov<\/STRONG>, Valdgardt&#8217;s <STRONG>The Cat&#8217;s House<\/STRONG>, Mascagni\u2019s <STRONG>Cavalleria rusticana<\/STRONG>, Leoncavallo\u2019s <STRONG>I Pagliacci<\/STRONG>, Verdi\u2019s <STRONG>Nabucco<\/STRONG>, Wagner&#8217;s <STRONG>Lohengrin<\/STRONG>, Strauss&#8217; <STRONG>Die Fledermaus<\/STRONG>, as well as ballets: Tchaikovsky\u2019s<STRONG> The Sleeping Beauty<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>The Nutcracker<\/STRONG> and <STRONG>Swan Lake<\/STRONG>, Prokofiev\u2019s <STRONG>Romeo and Juliet<\/STRONG> and<STRONG> Cinderella<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>Carmen-Suite<\/STRONG> by Bizet&#038;Shchedrin, Minkus\u2019 <STRONG>Don Quixote<\/STRONG>, Khatchaturyan\u2019s <STRONG>Spartacus<\/STRONG>, Gounod\u2019s <STRONG>Walpurgis Night<\/STRONG>, Delibes&#8217;s <STRONG>Copp\u00e9lia<\/STRONG> (joint productions with the Kasatkina and Vasil\u00f6v State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre and with the Imperial Russian Ballet). Valery Kritskov has produced and conducted the <STRONG>Voice of a Woman<\/STRONG> (consisting of three monodramas: Vitaly Gubarenko\u2019s <STRONG>Tenderness,<\/STRONG> Antonio Spadavecchia \u2018s <STRONG>Letter from an Unknown Woman<\/STRONG>, and Mikael Tariverdiev\u2019s<STRONG> Waiting<\/STRONG>) and Strauss\u2019<STRONG> Capriccio<\/STRONG>. <\/P><br \/>\n<P align=justify>He has also conducted numerous concert programmes including the \u201cBravissimo!\u201d opera mix, the dramatized performance \u201cThis is Opera!\u201d, Ten Sopranos of the Novaya Opera (October 2013), Mezzo-Sopranos at the Novaya Opera (February 2014), \u201cTo Beautiful Ladies!\u201d, a gala concert dedicated to International Women\u2019s Day (March 2014 and 2015). <BR><BR>Valery Kritskov has participated in the recording of the \u201cChorus of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow\u201d and \u201cSoloists of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow\u201d CDs.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valery Kritskov, conductor of the Novaya Opera Theatre, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Culture with a degree in opera and orchestra conducting (Professor Tikhonov\u2019s class) in 1988. 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