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Arts Calendar / September 8 / Opera
19:00 Don Carlo
Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. 205 min (with one interval) Libretto by François-Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle. Original Italian translation by Achille De Lauzières, revised by Angelo Zanardini. "Milan" version 1884. Conductors: Robert Treviño, Giacomo Sagripanti. Stage Director: Adrian Noble. Sung in Italian. Politics and religion are dangerously entwined in Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo. It is based on the 1787 dramatic poem by Friedrich Schiller and was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1867. Verdi made extensive revisions to the opera over the following 20 years. This production by Nicholas Hytner follows the five-act 1886 version – Verdi’s final revision of the work. Don Carlo contains a host of vividly drawn characters, depicted through some of Verdi’s most complex music. The chilling Grand Inquisitor imposes his will in thunderous, dark-toned music, while the revolutionary Marquis of Posa sings a stirring duet with Don Carlos in praise of friendship and freedom. And in Eboli and Elizabeth, Verdi created two of his most sympathetic heroines.
Bolshoi Theater 
19:00 The Stone Guest
Opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky in three acts. Based on A. S. Pushkin’s poem “The Stone guest” from the cycle “The little tragedies”. Director: Dmitry Bertman. Conductor: Mikhail Egiazaryan. “The stone guest” – is the unusual innovative opera. Unfortunately, Dargomyzhsky had not finished it, the opera has become the last of his creations, which has been finished by his friends – composers from “The Five” (also known as the Mighty Handful, The Mighty Five). Cui had written up the clavier, Rimsky-Korsakov had orchestrated it. Dargomyzhsky had been completely following the text of the A. S. Pushkin’s poem “The Stone guest” from the cycle “The little tragedies”. “I am entertaining over the Pushkin’s “Don Juan”. I'm trying unprecedented affair: writing the music on “The Stone guest” scenes the way they are, without any words changing. I want the sound straightly expresses the word…”, - had been confessing the composer. The medieval plot has got ironic and courageous character, and Dargomyzhsky had embodied it into music with the peculiar to the poet humor and depths. In “The Stone guest” known all over the world story of the Sevillian aristocrat Don Juan Tenorio has played out in fresh colours and turned into fascinating detective, thoroughly saturated with the mischievous and rebellious spirit of Pushkin. Unfortunately, the last opera of A. Dargomyzhsky rarely “visits” the stages of the world opera houses.
Helikon Opera 
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