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Gaetano Donizetti's opera in three acts. Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini based on Angelo Anelli’s libretto “Ser Marcantonio”. Music Director: Michał Klauza. Stage Director: Timofey Kulyabin. Set Designer: Oleg Golovko. Costume Designer: Galya Solodovnikova. Dramaturge: Ilya Kukharenko. This Donizetti opera had its 1st performance at the Théâtre-Italien, Paris, on 3 January 1843 and was an immediate success. The composer was repeatedly called to take his bows, and many of the numbers were encored. In the same year Don Pasquale was presented in Milan, Turin, Vienna, London, Brussels and Lille. And to this day it continues to be one of Donizetti’s most popular repertory works. But, for all this, the Bolshoi Theatre has done no more than two productions of Don Pasquale – in 1850 and 1872. And now, almost 150 years later, the opera is again to grace our stage.
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18:00 | 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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