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 Opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 195 min ()with one interval). Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after the play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Music Director: William Lacey. Stage Director: Evgeny Pisarev. Set Designer: Zinovy Margolin. Sung in Italian with Russian surtitles. "Beauty of this opera is that you can flip it by any side – it is amazingly versatile. I personally felt like diving into its festive world. We conditionally placed the set in the middle of XX century – it can be 50s, or 60s, or 70s. It was a post-war period with intrinsic desire for life, joy and feast. Our play will certainly be about love. Because everyone is in love here – Marcellina, Cherubino and even Count himself. They all cheat on one another- but without pain, though, on a contrary – with passion and joy. They can’t handle themselves – too much of testosterone and energy, thirst for pleasure and happiness. I think that’s what you call a Mozartian spirit," Pisarev says.
Bolshoi Theater New Stage  |
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 Opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky in three acts. Based on A. S. Pushkin’s poem “The Stone guest” from the cycle “The little tragedies”. Director: Dmitry Bertman. Conductor: Mikhail Egiazaryan. “The stone guest” – is the unusual innovative opera. Unfortunately, Dargomyzhsky had not finished it, the opera has become the last of his creations, which has been finished by his friends – composers from “The Five” (also known as the Mighty Handful, The Mighty Five). Cui had written up the clavier, Rimsky-Korsakov had orchestrated it. Dargomyzhsky had been completely following the text of the A. S. Pushkin’s poem “The Stone guest” from the cycle “The little tragedies”. “I am entertaining over the Pushkin’s “Don Juan”. I'm trying unprecedented affair: writing the music on “The Stone guest” scenes the way they are, without any words changing. I want the sound straightly expresses the word…”, - had been confessing the composer. The medieval plot has got ironic and courageous character, and Dargomyzhsky had embodied it into music with the peculiar to the poet humor and depths. In “The Stone guest” known all over the world story of the Sevillian aristocrat Don Juan Tenorio has played out in fresh colours and turned into fascinating detective, thoroughly saturated with the mischievous and rebellious spirit of Pushkin. Unfortunately, the last opera of A. Dargomyzhsky rarely “visits” the stages of the world opera houses.
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