On the day of remembrance and sorrow, a gala concert of SONGS OF MILITARY YEARS, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the start of World War II, was held on the stage of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theater with a full house Automatic translate

Soloists of the Mariinsky Theater, laureates of all-Russian and international competitions Irina Mataeva, Alexander Trofimov, Ekaterina Sergeeva, Vadim Kravets, Vladimir Celebrovsky, with the participation of the Tauride Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of artistic director and conductor Mikhail Golikov, performed the most famous and favorite works of the war years.

“Dark Night”, “Random Waltz”, “Blue Modest Handkerchief”, “We Need One Victory”, “Nightingales”, “Sevastopol Waltz”, “Victory Day” - these and many other songs sounded at the concert are stored in memory generations, they have become part of family stories, immortal and expensive.

Spectators of the concert were veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War, residents of the besieged Leningrad, as well as Petersburgers who could not ignore such an important and memorable date for our country.

The scene of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theater is memorable to many who survived the war and the blockade. All 900 blockade days without a break, the theater team worked for Leningrad and Leningrad residents. The curtain rose in the harshest winter of 1941-1942. - at that terrible time, the audience of the theater was a million three hundred thousand city residents. In a frozen room, starving artists played two performances a day, and in between rehearsals, they served in the MPVO and the health team. Over the years of the blockade, more than 16 productions have been performed in the theater; more than a thousand concerts were given by the team of the Leningrad Musical Comedy on different sections of the front and in hospitals.