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 Opera by Guiseppe Verdi. Libretto by Temistocle Solera. Director: Dmitry Bertman. Music Directors: Eugene Brazhnik, Domenique Rouits. Sunh in Italian. "Nabucco" is the third opera by G. Verdi and his first masterpiece. The plot of "Nabucco" follows the stories of Old Testament, which says about the siege of Jerusalem by Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco in Italian) and Babylonian captivity of Jewish people. Verdi's opera is a battle of nations and religions, personalities of Biblical scale and frantic romantic passions/ "Nabucco" is famous for extrenal compexity of vocal parts, which combine belcanto splendour and dramatic power, as well as the remarkeble choruses among which is the famous "Va, pensiero". This opera appeared in Helikon's repertoire in 2004, the premier performances took place in Dijon and Paris. Since 2005 "Nabucco" staged by Dmitry Bertman, Igor Nezhny and Tatiana Tulubieva is performed on stage of Mariinsky theatre (Saint-Petersburg). Unfortunately, the hall which could place such grandiose performance wasn't found in Moscow, that is why "Helikon-Opera" shows only concert version of "Nabucco" on its stage.
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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.
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