Script Author and Host: Natalia Entelis
Stage
Director: Alexander Maskalin
Production Designer:
Sergei Grachev
Lighting Designer:
Roman Peskov
Scenes and arias from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov`s opera The Tale of Tsar
Saltan
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin’s
The Tale of Tsar Saltan has become one of the most popular
fairytales, among adults as well as children. Written in Tsarskoe Selo during
the first happy year of the poet’s life following his marriage, sixty-seven
years later it inspired Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, another great
storyteller, to compose the most joyful opera in the history of music.
When
two geniuses create a work, then it is beyond all doubt that the work will be a
masterpiece. That happened here. Filled with bright and sunny humour, lyricism,
sketches and landscapes, vivid musical portraits and comic – it could even
be said cartoon-like scenes, The Tale of Tsar Saltan will
always delight audiences. Unsurprisingly, several numbers from the work, proving
tremendously popular, took on a life of their own and can be heard not just on
the operatic stage but when performed as independent pieces of music at concert
halls.
Svetlana Nikitina