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 Opera in four acts with intermission by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Stage-director: Dmitry Bertman. Musical director, conductor: Valery Kiryanov. Set designers: Tauno Kangro (Estonia), Rostislav Protasov. The Pharaoh’s palace received the news, that Ethiopians would threat to attack Egypt. Radames is willing to lead the forces and win, he hints about it to the High Priest. The Pharaoh’s daughter Amneris is in love with Radames. She guessed about his passion to the slave Aida, when she sees him in a strong excitement. Priests hold the rite of passage to consecrate Radames as the Commander. Amneris is waiting Radames’ returning – he won the Ethiopians. Suspecting Aida is the rival and trying to learn her feelings to Radames, she tells Aida about his death. A wail of despair reveals Aida. Everything is ready for meeting the winners on the square in Thebes. The triumphant appears with the captured Ethiopians, there is Amonasro (the King of Ethiopia, Aida’s father) among them. Trying to avoid suspicion, he impersonates himself as the Commander and tells, that the King of Ethiopia is died in battle...
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14:00 | Maddalena. L'heure espagnole |
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 Operas in one act by Sergei Prokofiev and Maurice Ravel. Maddalena by Sergei Prokofiev. Libretto based on the play by Magda Lieven. Orchestration by Edward Downes. Sung in Russian with English subtitles. The score has been made available by Boosey & Hawkes Publishers Limited. Beautiful Maddalena is waiting at home for her husband, Genaro the artist, to return. Boats with loving couples are passing by under the setting sun, a chorus of gondoliers is heard from afar. One of the boats carries Maddalena’s friends Gemma and Romeo. They invite her to join them, but she refuses. L’heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel. Libretto by Franc-Nohain. Conductor: Alexey Vereshchagin. Director, Set Designer and Costume Designer: Vladislavs Nastavevs. Lighting Designer: Anton Stikhin. Sung in French. Ramiro, a muleteer, comes to Torquemada’s clock shop to have his watch fixed. Concepcion, Torquemada’s wife, reminds her husband that it’s time he went to maintain the town clock. Torquemada leaves. Gonsalve, a young poet, comes to visit Concepcion. She wants to be left alone with him and asks Ramiro to bring a clock to her bedroom, which Torquemada wouldn’t do for her due to his lack of physical strength. The muleteer takes the clock upstairs, while the enamoured Gonzalve recites poetry to Concepcion.
Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage |
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18:00 | The Flying Dutchman |
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 One-act opera in three acts to music by Richard Wagner. Musical Director and Conductor: Philip Chizhevsky. Stage director: Konstantin Bogomolov. Production Designer: Larisa Lomakina. The production of R. Wagner's The Flying Dutchman is the first experience of coproduction between Russian theaters: Novaya Opera and the Tchaikovsky Perm Opera and Ballet Theater. On the Perm stage, screenings took place in April 2023, and the Moscow premiere of the production in October will open the 33rd season of the Novaya Opera Theater. The production of The Flying Dutchman is dedicated to the 180th anniversary of its world premiere in Dresden (1843). The opera was first performed in Russia 125 years ago as part of the St. Petersburg tour of Hans Richter's German company (1898). A few years later, the first Russian production took place at the Bolshoi Theater (under the title Sailor Skitalez, 1902). A historic project was realized on the same stage: in 2004 The Flying Dutchman became the first co-production with the Bavarian Opera. It is symbolic that today this very work has set another precedent - an example of theatrical coproduction within Russia.
Novaya Opera Theatre |
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