Loading...Acclaimed Russian violinist Vadim Repin will open the Year of Language and Literature of Russia and the United Kingdom. LOVE starring the world’s most famous violinist Vadim Repin will act as the London launch of the UK Russia Year of Language and Literature 2016 with a royal gala opening ceremony that will be held in London’s Royal Festival Hall as the film is based on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. 88 players of the Philharmonia Orchestra will accompany the screening of the classic 1927 silent movie Love, starring Great Garbo.
He will perform at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Feb. 25, with members of the British royal family in attendance. He will perform in a Live Philharmonia Concert Screening Love the silent film based on Anna Karenina in a brand new score written for him by Aphrodite Raickopoulou.
Cultural relations between Russia and the UK continue to be close and active. This music inspired by the film based Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina has been written especially for the violin virtuoso by acclaimed Greek-British composer Aphrodite Raickopoulou.
The prestigious Transiberian Arts Festival lead by Vadim Repin from there on will stage two performances of ‘Love’, one in the Novosibirsk Concert Theatre (15 April 2016) and a second at the Tchaikovsky Theatre in Moscow (19 April 2016). Repin, 44, was born in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, and began playing the violin at the age of five. He made his Moscow and St. Petersburg recital debuts at the age of eleven — rapidly gaining worldwide recognition.
The Year of Language and Literature is designed to continue the diplomatic cultural exchange that began with 2014’s Year of Culture. Many of the scheduled programs will involve the works of William Shakespeare, with 30 Russian towns screening versions of the British playwright’s works.
Repin, 44, was born in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, and began playing the violin at the age of five. He made his Moscow and St. Petersburg recital debuts at the age of eleven — rapidly gaining worldwide recognition.
A naturalized Belgian citizen, Repin lives in Vienna.