ENGAGEMENTS IN RUSSIA
SAINT PETERSBURG STATE THEATRE OF MUSICAL COMEDY
With the awareness of Austrian operetta tradition and the knowledge of the Russian language, acquired during his studies in Moscow,
Guth was appointed the theatre's first guest conductor by the
General Director Yuri Aleksejewitsch Schwarzkopf in 2007.
On this leading Russian operetta and musical stage Guth has supervised successful new productions, of course all in Russian text versions: "The Merry Widow" by Franz Lehár, "Countess Mariza" by Emmerich Kálmán and "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss.
With the musical comedy "Spring Parade", directed by Robert Herzl and in co-production with Bühne Baden, the traditional theatre near Vienna, Guth brought a stage work by Robert Stolz to Russia for the first time.
Operetta galas for International Women's Day
At the St. Petersburg MUSCOMED (Russian Acronym), he also staged the first performance of the Strauss operetta "Wiener Blut" in Russia, which was also shown for the first time in Moscow at the theatre's guest performance in the Stanislavsky Musical Theatre.
In annual gala concerts around International Women's Day on March 8th, he introduced guest soloists from Austria and other countries, in addition to popular singers of the theatre. Last but not least, in the spirit of cultural relations, Guth established contact with the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien - Musical Vienna, whose hit plays such as "Dance of the Vampires" have since been running in Russian productions.
Opening night party in the MUSCOMED theatre
RECOGNITION IN RUSSIA
Johann Strauss was very celebrated also in Russia already at a young age. As a famous music star and advertising medium for the first Russian railway line, he enchanted audiences for eleven summers in the Vauxhall (music pavilion) of Pavlovsk train station, near one of the Tsar's castles of Saint Petersburg.
To this day, Russians love Johann Strauss like one of their own composers and therefore greatly appreciate the authentic interpretation of this music.
ПИТЕР ГУТ (Piter Gut) has an excellent reputation in Russian musical life since many years.
Throughout the country, in sold-out concerts with his own or with local orchestras, he has conveyed a genuine Viennese musical spirit. The former pupil of the unforgotten David Oistrakh became the audience's Russian-speaking darling from Vienna.
Since 2002 he has performed regularly in Saint Petersburg, several times in the great hall of the historically important Philharmonic Society, in the Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall (BKS), in the Hermitage Museum or in the Ballrooms of the various Tsar's palaces during the summer festival “The Great Waltz”.
He was also constantly present in Moscow with countless concerts until the outbreak of the corona pandemic.
In the Great Hall of the Conservatorium, in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society and its second venue, the Rachmaninoff Hall, in the huge concert hall of the Kremlin Palace, in the Moscow International House of Music (International Performing Arts Center - MMDM-Dom Musiki), in the gigantic Crocus City Hall, or on the stages of the Novaya Opera and the Stanislavsky Music Theatre.
For several years he played with the Moscow City Orchestra "Russkaya Philharmonia" at the great Viennese Ball in Moscow ("Venski Bal Moskva") for the dancing and accompanied vocal soloists of the "Bolshoi Theatre".
MOSCOW VIRTUOSI
Since 2012 until the concert season before the outbreak of Covid-19, Peter Guth had a partnership with the world-famous chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi of his student friend Vladimir Spivakov.
With these exceptional musicians he was able to work on a large part of the repertoire of Viennese classical dance music, from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and the Strauss Dynasty to works of the twentieth century. This collaboration was acclaimed in major music centres in Russia.
In Guth's concert cycle "Viennese Splendor" (Венский Блеск) in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Virtuosi thrilled audiences with their exciting joy of playing and perfect style. Before Corona, Guth's interesting programmes, every year in two sold-out concerts belonged to the attractions of the Moscow Philharmonic Society.
He always succeeded in introducing his followers to compositions by Lanner, Lumbye, Suppé, Ziehrer, Hellmesberger, or Robert Stolz and surprising them with pieces by the Strauss Dynasty they had not heard before.
A live recording of one of these concerts has been released on CD.
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Flyer Moscow Virtuosi 2019
Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society - Announcements 2016
from left: Rudolf Buchbinder & Vladimir Jurowski / Viktor Tretjakov & Yuri Bashmet /
Moscow Virtuosi & Peter Guth