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Opera in four acts. Leonid Baratov stages Mussorgsky's musical drama based on Pushkin's tragedy. The opera was composed between 1868 and 1873 and first staged in 1874 in St. Petersburg. Version and orchestration by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestration of "At St. Basil Cathedral" scene by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. Conductors: Vassily Sinaisky, Pavel Sorokin. Director - Igor Ushakov. Sung in Russian. Ever since Fyodor Chaliapin’s triumphant appearance in the role at the Paris Opera, Boris Godunov is unqualifiedly considered by Russian and world audiences to be the chief personage of Russian opera and its leading potentate. For the whole world today Mussorgsky’s opera is a key work on the abstract nature of power in general, with no need for concrete historical associations or the literal reproduction of realia.
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19:30 | Opera HD: La Boheme. Teodor Currentzis |
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Opera. Russia 2017, 147 min. Music by Giacomo Puccini. Musical Director and Conductor Teodor Currentzis. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on "Scenes de la Vie de Boheme" by Henri Murger. A co-production by Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Perm Opera. Stage Director: Philipp Himmelmann; Set Designer: Raimund Bauer; Costume Designer: Kathi Maurer. Starring: Davie Giusti, Lonstantin Suchkov, Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Deyan Vatchkov, Garry Agadzhanyan, Zarina Abaeva, Nadezhda Pavlova, Artists of MusicAeterna chorus, children’s theatre studio, opera chorus and extras MusicAeterna Orchestra. La Bohème is a gem of late 19th century lyrical psychological opera. It follows the traditions of Verdi's La Traviata and is dedicated, according to music historian Mikhail Muginstein, to the "sad mystery of life investigated from the perspective of time’s irreversibility." Philipp Himmelmann, a stage director from Germany, is known to Russian audiences as the director of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro staged in Perm in 2012. His interpretation of the opera by Puccini is set in Paris in the 1960s. It was a legendary time that gave birth to the new cinematography, fashion and understanding of the role of personality in history. Teodor Currentzis: "La Bohème is a story about fragile people creating fragile beauty. This is a story about angels trying to create their own life on earth".
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