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19:00 | Cavalleria rusticana |
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 One-act opera to music by Pietro Mascagni. Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from the same name story by Giovanni Verga. Stage-director: Dmitry Bertman. Musical director, conductor: Evgeny Brazhnik. Set Designer: Igor Nezhny. For the 1st time in Helikon-opera history there will be presented the famous verismo opera, which has initiated the new flow in the opera art – “Cavalleria rusticana” by P. Mascagni. After the composer awarded by the highest prize in the Edoardo Sonzogno competition, he became famous and the opera has conquered the world stages in his life. Only in Italy “Cavalleria rusticana” performed 14 000 times – above 21 shows per month during 55 years along. Nowadays it is staging more than 700 times per year. The opera was highly ranked by G. Verdi and P. Tchaikovsky. Strong characters, rapid train of events from the love serenades to bloody fights between the opponents, expressive culmination, feeling of the tragedy and dramatic final – these are the things, which are largely determined the success of the “Cavalleria rusticana”. The opera narrates about love and passion, jealousy and cheating, betrayal and regret. It’s music delights by the beauty and melodic richness, the opera themes can be heard not only at the musical theatres, but in movies and series.
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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 Eug?ne 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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