Olga Borodina
Dmitri Yefimov

Performers

• Dmitri Yefimov, Piano
• Olga Borodina, Mezzo-Soprano

Program

• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "Of What I Dream in the Quiet Night," Op. 40, No. 3
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "Not the Wind, Blowing from the Heights," Op. 43, No. 2
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "The Clouds Begin to Scatter," Op. 42, No. 3
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "The Lark Sings Louder," Op. 43, No. 1
• CUI "Desire," Op. 57. No. 25
• CUI "The Fountain Statue at Tsarskoye Selo," Op. 57, No. 17
• CUI "I Touched the Bloom Lightly," Op. 49, No. 1
• MUSSORGSKY "Night"
• BORODIN "The Sea Princess"
• BALAKIREV "The Bright Moon"
• BALAKIREV "Spanish Song" from Three Forgotten Songs, No. 3
• BALAKIREV "I Loved Him"
• SHOSTAKOVICH Spanish Songs, Op. 100
• SVIRIDOV "The Crimson Forest Sheds its Attire"
• SVIRIDOV "A Winter's Road"
• SVIRIDOV "Drawing Near To Izhory"
• SVIRIDOV "'Russia Cast Adrift"
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  Encores:
• FALLA "El paño moruno"
• FALLA "Nana"
• SAINT-SAËNS "Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix" from Samson et Dalila
• 
  Program is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, including one intermission

Bios

• Dmitri Yefimov
  
  Born in Leningrad in 1965, Dmitri Yefimov began his musical studies at age five. He graduated from the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory in 1990, studying with Pavel Egorov, and completed post-graduate work in 1992.
  
  Mr. Yefimov earned the Best Accompanist award at the all-union vocal competition in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1992. Later that year, he received a diploma at the Franz Liszt International Competition in Parma, Italy.
  
  As a soloist and an accompanist, Mr. Yefimov has performed in Russia, Germany, France, the UK, and the US. He is a regular accompanist of Olga Borodina, with whom he has performed worldwide.
  
  Mr. Yefimov has taught piano at the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory since 1992. He has released two recordings of Beethoven piano sonatas for the Audiophile Classics series.

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• Olga Borodina
  
  Olga Borodina made her highly acclaimed European debut in 1992 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, sharing the stage with Plácido Domingo in Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila. This launched her international career and she has since performed regularly at the world's major opera houses.
  
  Ms. Borodina made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in 1997, and returned for the opening night of the Met's 1998–1999 season in Samson et Dalila. Subsequent engagements have included such major roles as Amneris in Aida, Carmen, Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri, Laura Adorno in La Gioconda, Marguerite in La damnation de Faust, and Princess Eboli in Don Carlos, as well as a recent telecast of Adriana Lecouvreur with Domingo. She is also a frequent guest at the San Francisco Opera and Washington National Opera.
  
  Highlights of the 2008–2009 concert season included performances with Riccardo Muti and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Muti and the Orchestre National de France in Verdi's Requiem, and Tony Pappano at Covent Garden and in Birmingham (UK). Later this year, Ms. Borodina performs in Paris, Prague, Finland, and with Muti at the Salzburg Festival.
  
  In recital, Ms. Borodina has appeared at the Concertgebouw and all of the major venues in London, Milan, Vienna, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid, among others. She made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2001 with James Levine on the piano, and returned in 2004 and 2006, the latter for a duet recital with her husband, bass Ildar Abdrazakov. She also returned to Teatro alla Scala, Madrid, and Lisbon for recitals last season.
  
  Awarded the People's Artist of Russia title in 2002, Ms. Borodina is a 2004 recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.

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