During the last few days Vitali visited the cities of Italy Livorno and Florence, connected with one of the first Ukrainian composers Maxim Beresovsky. In Florence he managed to see the original scores of Berezovsky, which he plans to perform this summer at the festival Young Euro Classic in Berlin as part of the Music and Dialogue project.
Today, 27 January 2020 is the next anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the blockade. One of the main symbols of the liberation and triumph of the human spirit is Symphony No. 7 by Dmitry Shostakovich. The Munich University Orchestra under the direction of Vitali Alekseenok will perform this work in Herculessaal Munich on 9 February. The programme will also include "Kindertotenlieder" by Gustav Mahler, with Natalia Boeva as soloist.
Paul Dessau's opera "Lanzelot" has not been performed for the last 49 years. From October 2019 to January 2020 there will be a new production of this opera at the German National Theatre in Weimar, where Vitaly Alekseenok works as second conductor and assistant.