This Sunday, July 1, at 21:00 in the very center of Kiev a concert of symphonic music "Paths of Friendship" will take place with the participation of the outstanding Italian conductor Ricardo Muti and American actor John Malkovich.

The international project from the stage on Sofia Square will be opened by the stars of the channel "1 + 1" - the leading TSN Lydia Taran, who struck spectacularly in a stylish photo shoot, and the host of the projects "The King of Dessert" and "Inspector". Mista "Vladimir Ostapchuk, who recently baptized a young son.

The hosts will present the audience of Italian and Ukrainian artists who, under the direction of the world-famous conductor Ricardo Muti, will perform the immortal music of Giuseppe Verdi (from Stabat Mater, Te Deum and Nabucco) in the open air..

A total of more than 300 participants will be involved in the joint joint Italian-Ukrainian symphony orchestra and the large concert choir.

The culmination of the evening will be the performance of the symphonic poem "Portrait of Lincoln", which will be decorated by Hollywood actor John Malkovich with his performance as a reader-reciter. The work was written by American composer Aaron Copland at the height of World War II and is dedicated to the national hero of the American people Abraham Lincoln. Usually in the role of reader-reciter fragments from the texts of President Lincoln were famous actors or public figures. Among them are Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Neil Armstrong, Katherine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Henry Fonda and others..

Recall that the idea of ??the international project "Ways of Friendship", which carries a high peacekeeping mission, honors the memory of the victims of the most tragic events of our time, belongs to Maestro Riccardo Muti, artistic director and chief conductor of the theater "La Scala".

Riccardo Muti from the very beginning of the project conducted the Italian orchestras and choirs, who each time performed together with the musicians of the cities in which they traveled: Beirut, Jerusalem, Yerevan and Istanbul, New York, Cairo, Damascus, Nairobi, Tokyo, Tehran.

The TV version of the concert "Ways of Friendship" will soon be shown on "1 + 1".