Organization

Conductor

Maria Maksimchuk

Singer

Soprano

Anastasia Belukova

Countertenor

Mikhail Shirochenko

Zaryadye Hall

"Access Code: Baroque" Tempo Restauro

Moscow

Russia

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Opera singer Anastasia Belukova (soprano) was born in Krasnodar, graduated from the Krasnodar Musical College in the violin class, GITIS (workshop of D. Bertman, class of Professor K. Lisitsian), then postgraduate studies at the Academy of Choral Art named after . V.S. Popov (class of Professor S. Nesterenko). 

Anastasia Belukova is a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation award among graduate students of creative universities, the winner of music competitions, including New Names and Romansiada. The singer was also awarded the youth national award "Triumph". 

Anastasia's repertoire consists of operas, operettas, oratorios, musicals, as well as chamber vocal music from different countries and eras, including the following roles: Lyudmila (Glinka - "Ruslan and Lyudmila"), Norina (Donizetti - "Don Pasquale"), Olympia (J. Offenbach - "Tales of Hoffmann"), Rosina (G. Rossini - "The Barber of Seville"), Fire, Princess, Nightingale (Ravel - "Child and Magic"), Gilda (Verdi - "Rigoletto"), Adele ( I. Strauss - "Die Fledermaus"), Lizhen (J. S. Bach - "Coffee Cantata"), Mikke (J. S. Bach - "Peasant Cantata"). 

The singer performed the soprano parts in such works as Mozart's Requiem, Bach's Christmas Oratorio and John Passion. Since 2005, Anastasia has been a soloist of the Moscow theater "New Opera", collaborates as a guest soloist with the Moscow theater "Helikon Opera". Along with participation in opera productions, Anastasia Belukova is also in demand as a concert performer, performing with such conductors as Vladimir Spivakov, Mikhail Pletnev, Alberto Zedda, Jan Latham-Koenig, Eri Claes, Alexander Sladkovsky, Alexander Rudin, Felix Korobov.

Anastasia actively participates in various musical domestic and international projects: "The Great Festival of RNO", "Moscow Christmas Festival of Sacred Music" in the Moscow International House of Music, "Stars of the Romansiade in the Kremlin", "Three Romes" (Moscow-Istanbul-Vatican), " New Names" in Germany, "International Music Festival" in Colmar. Anastasia's voice sounds on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, the Concert Hall. P. I. Tchaikovsky, State Kremlin Palace.

Mikhail Shirochenko was born in Langepas (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra). He initially studied violin and accordion, then academic vocals at the Khanty-Mansiysk Center for the Arts for Gifted Children of the North (class of Tatyana Timasheva) and at the Novosibirsk State Glinka Conservatory (class of Zhanna Chalova). In his second year, he transferred to the Russian Institute of Theater Arts - GITIS (workshop of Igor Yasulovich and Alexander Titel) in Moscow, where he continued to study singing under the guidance of Boris Tonkikh and Evgeny Zhuravkin.
Two years later, he was accepted into the Youth Opera Program of the Bolshoi Theater under the direction of Dmitry Vdovin, where he improved with such coaches and teachers as Eva Marton, Diana Zola, Evamaria Vizer, Michel Wegvart, Lyubov Orfenova, Fabian Shofrin, Semyon Skigin and others.

In 2019, he became a finalist in the Bolshoi Opera TV project on the Kultura channel.
In 2021, he won the Grand Prix of the XXVIII international competition World Music Competition in Spain and a special award at the Opera Bella competition in Moscow.

He has performed with the Pratum Integrum early music orchestra, the Questa Musica ensemble led by Philip Chizhevsky, the baroque consort Tempo Restauro , and the orchestra of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Center. Soloist of the project "All Bach Cantatas" of the Collegium Musicum Ensemble, the festival "Another Space" in the Moscow Philharmonic. He actively tours, in 2021 he gave more than 30 solo concerts in Russian cities. The singer's repertoire includes works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Purcell, as well as music by contemporary authors. 


Baroque consort TEMPO RESTAURO/Restoration timeis a unique Russian team led by Maria Maksimchuk, which brings together the leading soloists of Moscow opera houses and virtuoso instrumentalists. The basis of the repertoire is the music of the 16th-18th centuries. The ensemble collaborates with the Golden Mask festival, participates in the projects of the Theater Institute "THEATRUM: Re-Formation", collaborates with leading theater and concert venues: the Zaryadye Hall, the Cathedral Chamber, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Musical Theater. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky, concert halls of the Moscow State Philharmonic. The consort has a number of stock recordings and radio broadcasts made at the Orpheus radio station, as well as projects supported by grants from the Open Stage and the Institute of France in Russia.

Maria Maksimchuk - conductor of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater. K.S.Stanislavsky and Vl.I.Nemirovich-Danchenko, guest conductor of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, Orquesta Sinfónica del Sodre, Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo, State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus and others. Musical director and conductor of the international projects Dreams from Isolation and The History of Loneliness of the Golden Mask festival on the THEATRUM: Re-Formation platform.

Maria Maksimchuk is a graduate of the class of prof. G.N. Rozhdestvensky, currently teaches at the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky. Author of the concert and educational cycles “Splendor of the Baroque” and “Baroque. Masterpieces and Discoveries” at the Moscow Academic Musical Theatre. K.S.Stanislavsky and Vl.I.Nemirovich-Danchenko.

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"Access Code: Baroque" Tempo Restauro by Various, From (2022/2022), Conductor Maria Maksimchuk, Zaryadye Hall, Moscow, Russia

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