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| Arts Calendar / March 19 / Opera |
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19:00 | The Golden Cockerel |
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Opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. 160 min (with interval). Stage Director: Dmitry Bertman; Music Director: Vladimir Fedoseyev; Conductor: Valery Kiryanov; Set and Costumes Designer: Ene-Liis Semper (Estonia); Lighting Designer: Thomas Hase (USA); Chorus Master: Evgeny Ilyin; Choreographer: Edwald Smirnov. The last opera by the brilliant Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was never staged during the lifetime of its author. "...How many tortures the poor opera of Rimsky-Korsakov had to go through! It turned out that for a cock is not easier than for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle of the theater censorship. So many feathers have been plucked, so many many colors have been erased...", – that is how the contemporary of the composer commented on the history of the production of the opera "Golden Cockerel", which was released only after the death of the composer. The premiere took place on September 24, 1909 at the Zimin Opera house in Moscow, located in the same house in Bolshaya Nikitskaya street, where Helikon is situated now. Helikon Opera |
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19:00 | Un Ballo in Maschera |
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Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. 190 min (with two intervals). Libretto by Antonio Somma based on the text by Augustin Eugène Scribe. Music Director: Giacomo Sagripanti. Director and Set Designer: Davide Livermore. Sung in Italian. Today there are three versions of the libretto and therefore three locations – Boston, Naples and Stockholm. The Bolshoi’s production is staged by a team of Verdi’s compatriots, however, they set this bloody story in America, as it was at the premiere of the opera. And the choice of the location became the main inspiration for the visual concept of the production. Davide Livermore, a director and a stage designer, is an expert on works not only by Verdi, but also by Hitchcock, the most influential American filmmaker of the psychological thriller genre. The style and suspense of his films – that’s what should be sensed by the audience of our "Italian" performance placed in America. Bolshoi Theater |
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