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Opera production. 180 min. (with interval). Sung in Italian. Music: Gaetano Donizetti. Libretto: Felice Romani. Music Director: Wolf Gorelik. "Marvelously detailed staging by Lyudmila Naletova that captures at every turn both the work’s pathos and its humor. Designer Viktor Arkhipov aids Naletova with a riot of color in sets and costumes, vaguely – but only very vaguely – suggesting the composer’s own native northern Italy…" (Raymond Stults, The Moscow Times).
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theater  |
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19:00 | The Rape of Lucretia |
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Opera in two acts. Music Director and Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig. Conductor: Alexander Zhilenkov. In the UK-Russia Year of Music 2019, the Novaya Opera presents the first Moscow production of Benjamin Britten’s outstanding opera "The Rape of Lucretia" (1946). The theatre continues the English line in its repertoire: previously the Novaya Opera produced DIDO (its second part is a baroque masterpiece, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas) and Britten’s "The Turn of the Screw". "The Rape of Lucretia" is the composer’s very significant work. He wrote an amazing chamber opera for only 8 singers and an orchestra of 13 instruments. Though he began to compose chamber operas rather for costs reasons, Britten appreciated this genre very much. “It (chamber opera) gives the opportunity to focus on human psychology. And it is precisely this that has become the central theme of modern progressive art”. Ronald Duncan’s libretto is based on André Obey’s drama and William Shakespeare’s poem "The Rape of Lucrece".
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