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 One-act opera by Ferruccio Busoni. Libretto of the composer in German. Scriptwriter: Marina Skalkina. The premiere of the “Arlecchino” by F. Busoni is dedicated to the 100-birthday anniversary of the outstanding theatrical director, actor, professor Matvey Osherovsky. Director: Ilya Ilyin. Conductor: Filipp Selivanov. Italian composer, pianist, professor and conductor Ferruccio Busoni had created the opera “Arlecchino, oder Die Fenster” in the commedia dell’arte style in 1917, its premiere took place the same year in Zurich and was staged under the composer’s direction. Since then this opera productions can be counted on one hand. The last time in Russia was in 1977 (Samara). In Moscow this musical rarity will appear for the first time. Together with Ilya Ilyin over the staging of the performance are working young conductor Filipp Selivanov, musical director Mikhail Egiazaryan, set and costume designers Igor Nezhny and Tatiana Tulubieva, lighting designer Denis Enyukov. Roman Aptekar, the invited actor, will perform the role of Arlecchino.
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 Opera in three acts to music by Henry Purcell. Coproduction with Festival international d`art lyrique d`Aix-en-Provence (France). Libretto by Nahum Tate based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid. Prologue by Maylis de Kerangal. Sung in English. Conductor: Christopher Moulds. Director: Vincent Huguet. Set Designer: Aurélie Maestre. Dido, the widowed Queen of Carthage, entertains the Trojan Prince Aeneas, shipwrecked on his way to Italy, where he will found a new Troy. Dido and Aeneas are in love. Witches plot Dido’s destruction and the Sorceress conjures a storm, to break out when the royal couple are hunting, and the impersonation of Mercury by one of her coven. The storm duly breaks and the courtiers hasten back to town, while the false Mercury tells Aeneas he must leave Dido and sail for Italy. Aeneas and his sailors prepare to leave, to the delight of the witches. Aeneas parts from Dido, who kills herself once he has gone, her death lamented by mourning cupids.
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