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Opera Opera "The Sleeping Beauty in the Forest"
Ballet theatre of St. Petersburg Conservatoire


Schedule for Opera "The Sleeping Beauty in the Forest" 2022

Composer: Ottorino Respighi

Opera "The Sleeping Beauty in the Forest"

The joint project of St.-Petersburg and Milan Conservatory.

Musical fairy tale in 3 acts.
"Beauty, sleeping in the woods."
Opera based on the story O.Respigi Sh.Perro. D.Bistolfi libretto.

Opera "Beauty, sleeping in the woods" was created by the Italian composer Ottarino Respighi (1879-1936) based on the famous fairy tale by Charles Perrault, the story is PI Tchaikovsky wrote the ballet "Spyashaya Beauty."). Premiered in puppet Odescalchi in Rome (1922).
Respighi was inspired by children's fairy tale operas Cesar Cui, one of which ("Puss in Boots") with success in Rome was "Theatre for young" (1913). With the Russian school of composition Respighi has been closely linked. In 1901, he came to St. Petersburg as a violinist with the orchestra of the Italian Opera Company and in six months he took composition lessons here and instrumentation with Professor Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. This has had a tremendous impact on his operatic work.

In a joint project of the St. Petersburg and Milan Conservatory obscure opera Respighi be staged at the Theatre Conservatory in St. Petersburg, and then - in Milan. Take part in statement the two sides.

In the magical atmosphere of fairy tale performances exude signs of life in Italy of the 1920s-30s. Costumes inspired fashion era Respighi. The action is full of characters that are derived from the Italian commedia dell'arte. The dynamics of the play involves the possibility of technical video. You will find a fascinating view that the old tradition of the "theater masks" are living in an atmosphere of contemporary opera.

Respighi opera "Beauty, sleeping in the forest" (in Russian tradition is translated as "Dream Forest") was written in 1921 to a libretto by the poet Jan Bistolfi for the company «I Piccoli» («Little") for the famous Maestro - Puppet and Vittorio Podrekka was presented at the Theatre Odescalchi (Odescalchi) in Rome.
Vittorio Podrekka - writer, journalist, lawyer, but he preferred to devote himself to a puppet theater, and at one time he was also Secretary of the Music Lyceum of St. Cecilia (Santa Cecilia) of the city of Rome, where he met with Ottorino Respighi.
Between intellectuals who visit Rome's vibrant environment of this era, is also Russian journalist Alexander Amphitheater, which tells of Respighi score composer Cesar Cui, (one of the creators of the "Mighty Handful"), which was created for the Puppet Theatre of St. Petersburg and is inspired by Russian fairy tales.
It should be noted that Ottorino Respighi perfectly spoke in Russian, because he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Rimsky-Korsakov, and worked in the orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Thus, this company did the idea of ​​creating a work for chamber orchestra, singers and puppets to simulate Russian traditions.
Set design and costumes made Angoletta Bruno, the famous illustrator of fairy tales, advertising and creative graphics for mussolinevskogo period creator Marmitones (literally: sous chef), gentle soldier who does not love war!
Vittorio Porekka wants to expand the explanatory power of the theater pieces and likes to put puppets as works of Italian melodrama, among which: "The maid, Madam" by Pergolesi, ballet and even organizes jazz concerts.

Product of the "Dream of the Forest" is inspired by the famous fairy tale by Charles Perrault version, which everyone knows (on the same story Tchaikovsky wrote the ballet "Sleeping Beauty"): The king and queen of the long-awaited daughter was born, and they invite all the fairies of the kingdom, except one, because it has not left his half-century tower and all thought she was dead. In the midst of the feast at the christening appeared uninvited Green Fairy, which, as it seemed, were treated discourteously, because she did not have to fine cutlery. When all the fairies, except one that prudently decided to have the last word, gave the princess fairy gifts, old said his shocking prophecy: Princess prick your finger on a spindle - and die. Blue Fairy save the baby, to mitigate the sentence: Yes, Princess prick your finger on a spindle, but only asleep. The King issued a decree to burn all the distaff and spindle, but in vain: after 16 years, finds the princess in the tower of the castle-town old woman, who has not heard about the royal decree and spinning flax. Princess pricked her finger on a spindle and fall down dead. Awaken it is impossible. Blue Fairy appears, to soften the curse, and asks the King and Queen to leave the castle. Meanwhile, she immerses century castle in a dream, and it grows around the forest of - that no one entered the castle before the deadline. At one point, The Prince, who is returning from a hunting trip, enters the castle to see a beautiful girl sleeping, he kisses her and the princess is awakened.





Schedule for Opera "The Sleeping Beauty in the Forest" 2022


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