Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra

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Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra
Native nameМурманский Филармонический Оркестр
Founded1975 (1975)
Concert hallMurmansk Philharmonia Hall

The Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra based in Murmansk, Russia. It is currently the largest full professional orchestra in the Barents region. [1] It is funded by the regional government of Murmansk. [2]

Murmansk City in Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Murmansk is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia. It sits on both slopes and banks of a modest ria or fjord, Kola Bay, an estuarine inlet of the Barents Sea. Its bulk is on the east bank of the inlet. It is in the north of the rounded Kola Peninsula which covers most of the oblast. The city is 108 kilometres (67 mi) from the border with Norway and 182 kilometres (113 mi) from the Finnish border. The city is named for the Murman Coast, an archaic term in Russian for Norway.

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History

The Murmansk Regional Philharmonic Society was founded in 1975, when the concert and variety bureau was reformed into a philharmonic. [3] The Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra has its own hall built in 1994, which was revamped in 2016 as part of a large plan for the centennial of Murmansk. In 1999, the main orchestra of the philharmonic society was formed under its current name, the Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra, and performed under the baton of English conductor Damian Iorio. [4] [5]

Damian Iorio is a British-Italian conductor.

It has been decorated with the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class, Russia's highest civilian honor.

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" national award of the Russian Federation

The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree 442. Until the re-establishment of the Order of St. Andrew in 1998, it was the highest order of the Russian Federation. The order's status was modified on 6 January 1999 by Presidential Decree 19 and again on 7 September 2010 by Presidential Decree 1099.

Concerts

The orchestra performs in its own concert hall in the centre of the city. [6] It has performed around the region such as in St. Petersburg, Norway, Sweden, and often go on concert tours in the Kola Peninsula. The orchestra also performs regularly with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. [7]

Kola Peninsula peninsula in the northwest of Russia

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The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet is the first fully professional company each for opera and ballet in Norway, the only such professional organisation in the country. Its current residence is the Oslo Opera House, since the spring of 2008.

Repertoire

The orchestra repertoire ranges from Baroque to Contemporary music, with the core Russian repertoire at its centre. [8] It has performed the operas Tosca , La Traviata , Eugene Onegin , La bohème , and Madama Butterfly together with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. [9] [10]

<i>Tosca</i> opera in three acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini

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<i>Eugene Onegin</i> (opera) opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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<i>La bohème</i> 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini

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Conductors

Chief Conductors

The post of Chief Conductor has been vacant since 2011, and the orchestra has been led by guest conductors hired for each concert.

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