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 Musical divertissement, a grandiose musical show prepared together with the Imperial Russian Ballet specifically for a tour in Australia. Soloists and orchestra of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, Dancers of the Imperial Russian Ballet will perform Arias and symphonic excerpts from operas by Rossini, Mozart, Verdi, Bizet, Puccini, Offenbach, Strauss, Tchaikovsky; ballet miniatures; medley for piano on themes by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Mozart. Artistic director GediminasTaranda. Conductor Andrei Lebedev. Director Alexei Veiro. Combining the Moscow Novaya Opera Company and orchestra with four soloists from the Imperial Russian Ballet, Operamania was devised by former stage director of Novaya Opera, Valery Raku. It offers “a kaleidoscope of many of…the most loved pieces from opera, ballet and symphonic music and reflects their depth and diversity.” The pieces flow without pause from one into the next, incorporating a variety of moods – from tragedy to comedy to lyricism. As with any compilation it’s no easy task to create context. An audience invariably searches for a story. The stage director, Alexey Veiro, explains the creative process of attempting to create story lines out of seemingly incompatible components. “At rehearsals we were able to find a variety of musical numbers and their relationships with some new meanings. We managed to build a performance in which the numbers are related one to the other, and each character is interacting with others.”
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