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Arts Calendar / September 28 / Opera
19:00 Aida
Opera production. 210 min. (with interval). Sung in Italian. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto: Antonio Ghislanzoni. Music Director and Conductor: Felix Korobov. "It would appear that the first thought to cross a director’s mind when he takes on staging Aida is try to do everything according to Verdi. Yet for some reason no one does it. We’ve come to believe that Aida – is a grand show with spectacular scenery and costumes, marching extras, preferably even with elephants on stage. And forte, forte, forte all the time! But if we open the score, we will find ourselves looking at a very different picture. More than half of the opera is piano and pianissimo. We’ve agreed with the conductor to follow the author’s instructions precisely to turn Aida from a pompous show into an intimate psychological drama as intended. What we have here is a classical love triangle: two women love one man. Everything else – politics, war, religion, and intrigue is just a background against which the action takes place." (Peter Stein, Stage Director)
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theater 
19:00 Cavalleria rusticana
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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