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The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the European Opera Centre collaborated for the staging of Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff, with chief conductor of the RLPO Vasily Petrenko conducting. “The RLPO certainly played the wondrously inventive score with...

Peter and the Wolf (Warner Classics), featuring Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with narration by Alexander Armstrong, has reached number one on the UK's Official Specialist Chart. Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936) is a 'symphonic fairy...

Vasily Petrenko's latest recording with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Onyx), is available to purchase today. "Three works inspired by Spring – Stravinsky’s iconic and revolutionary 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring depicts...

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra performed two extremely contrasting symphonies at Sage Gateshead – Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony and new Philip Glass’s Eleventh Symphony under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. Despite this fundamental difference, endlessly...

Vasily Petrenko undertakes a major tour of China with London Philharmonic Orchestra, bringing Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel to life at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and explores rich repertoire with leading orchestras in Montreal (Montreal Symphony Orchestra),...

Vasily Petrenko won the prestigious Artist Of The Year award at last night's Gramophone Classical Music Awards. Petrenko, who previously won the Young Artist Of The Year award in 2007, has enjoyed a stellar year in which his recordings of Tchaikovsky's Symphonies 3, 4...

Vasily's most recent recordings from his Tchaikovsky symphony cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonies 3, 4 & 6, have won Gramophone's Recording of The Month for February. This follows from the success of Symphonies 1, 2 & 5 which was...

Vasily Petrenko, Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, was admitted to the Roll of Citizens of Honour of the City of Liverpool in a special ceremony today at Liverpool Town Hall. His is the 28th recipient of the award which recognises...

“THE LOSS OF THE EUYO WOULD BE A CATASTROPHIC LOSS TO THE MUSICAL COMMUNITY ACROSS EUROPE. MOREOVER, IF THE EUROPEAN UNION STOPS INVESTING IN ITS YOUNG PEOPLE AND ITS CULTURE IT WILL UNDERMINE ITS OWN CREDIBILITY AND FUTURE” “I was extremely shocked and saddened when...

The State Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra) today announced that Vasily Petrenko has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor from the 2016/17 season. This appointment recognises the strong relationship between Maestro Petrenko and The...