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 Opera to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky. Conductor: Felix Korobov. Sung in Russian. Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is a very special title for the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre. This opera was the Stanislavsky Opera Studio’s first performance staged by Konstantin Stanislavsky, the great reformer of a theatre art. In 1922 his production marked the birth of a new opera house. The first new production of Eugene Onegin since Stanislavsky’s one appeared at this Theatre in 2007. Its creators – Alexander Titel and David Borovsky – treated the legendary Stanislavsky’s version with the utmost respect, but did not copy it at all. The psychological development of the characters remained extremely detailed, and even the columns were preserved as the main element of the decoration. Only the air that the protagonists breathe became different. This is already Onegin of the XXI century, modern and consonant with today’s audience.
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18:00 | Ruslan and Lyudmila |
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 Opera in five acts to music by Mikhail Glinka. Mariinsky Theatre production with participation of the Bolshoi Theatre Chorus & Orchestra. Decorations are restored from the 1904 version of the performance by Alexander Golovin and Konstantin Korovin. Choreography by Michel Fokine, 1917 production. Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich. Vladimir Odoyevsky called the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila a magnificent flower that had grown in Russian musical soil. Glinka’s score is laden with musical treats just like the tables at the princely feast in Act I. The composer’s imagination, given flight by the genius of Pushkin, came up with one superb melody after another, it created hitherto unknown chords and it suggested the original decisions as to the orchestration. Fully compensating for the losses that inevitably accompanied the literary masterpiece’s transformation into an opera libretto, Glinka produced an epic and magical fairytale opera about the fearless Ruslan and his faithful bride Lyudmila, about trials and temptations and about the battle between Light and Darkness.
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