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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera in two acts, 195 min. Sung in German. Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder based on Christoph Martin Wieland’s fairy tale Lulu oder die Zauberflöte. Stage Director: Boris Pokrovsky. Music Director: Vladimir Agronsky. Designer: Viktor Volsky. Costume Designer: Rafael Volsky. Choreographer: Lilia Talankina. Premiered on September 24, 2004. "The Magic Flute" was the last opera Mozart composed: it was premiered on September 30, 1791 - roughly three months before he died. This opera is a sort of the author's last will examining eternal philosophical questions about love, loyalty, betrayal, religion, love and death.
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Gaetano Donizetti's opera in three acts. 190 min with two intervals. Sung in Italian. 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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