Opera Evening of one-act operas: "THE TWILIGHT NIGHTS" (Sentimental opera on to f. Dostoyevsky ). Paul Hindemith "There and Back Again". "Jewish Songs" St. Petersburg Chamber Opera
Schedule for Evening of one-act operas: "THE TWILIGHT NIGHTS" (Sentimental opera on to f. Dostoyevsky ). Paul Hindemith "There and Back Again". "Jewish Songs" 2022
Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich Stage Director: Yuri Alexandrov Composer: Paul Hindemith
Jury Butsko.
"THE TWILIGHT NIGHTS"
Sentimental opera on to f. Dostoyevsky
First premiere
of the 26th season of theater in "St. Petersburg Chamber Opera" will be the
"Evening of one-act operas," which will include: "Jewish Songs" by Shostakovich,
operational sketch P.Hindemita "There and Back Again" "White Nights by Fyodor
Dostoevsky "Yu.Butsko.
The choice of works would seem strange to any theater of the city, except the
theater of St. Petersburg Opera. Artistic director Yuri Alexandrov is famous for
its creative experiments and unexpected directorial decisions. By the way, and
Hindemith's opera Butsko set the stage for the first time in Russia.
In the performance of chamber opera "From Jewish Folk Poetry" in our memory
occur simultaneously and everyday scenes in the paintings of Marc Chagall and
Babi Yar. This cycle of Shostakovich was established in 1948. In it the
atmosphere of songs, inspired by the life and suffering of ordinary people from
poor Jewish families. It was first performed in one of Shostakovich's birthday
at his home with friends and made a stunning impression on all his genius. In
subsequent years, Shostakovich wrote on this subject a few more songs, and the
cycle was performed for the first time in full in January 1955 in the Small Hall
of the Leningrad Philharmonic. Shostakovich did not use folk sources, but the
music is permeated by Jewish characteristic intonations as proper vocal and
speech. This is not the songs, not songs in the traditional sense. Eleven rooms
cycle is alive dramatic scenes in the tradition of Mussorgsky.
Stage opus mysterious German avant Paul Hindemith - "Return", a small time,
outrageous mini-opera in the style of cabaret is solved as a "nightmare
vahtershi theater." This is a story about the theater, that it is eternal,
unusual, strange, he lives day and night ... Sets - vahtershi desk with a phone
and a lamp, table, TV. And at night the empty theater are her phantoms, ghosts.
A parallel program is on television, where viewers can also discern his "back
and forth."
Contemporary composer Yuri Butsko - author of numerous academic works. He has
written music for a variety of film and television, as well as the legendary
performance of the Taganka Theater and the Theater of Satire, where the main
role performed by stars of domestic theatrical art: Vladimir Vysotsky,
A.Mironov, A.Papanov, A. Shirvindt etc. " White nights "were created by the
composer in 1968. Although the opera caused a resonance in the musical
environment, it has not been delivered at home for reasons of Soviet censorship.
The only gramzapis the time, performed an outstanding conductor Gennady
Rozhdestvensky (soloists - Mr. Mischevsky and Galina Pisarenko). In season
1968/69's "White Nights" set in Dresden (theater brilliant opera director Harry
Kupfer). The success was overwhelming. "I was happy - says the composer - I
thought I lived, as Wagner whole city at my feet." At the Russian theater that
opera audiences have never seen. Only now, after more than forty years, the play
"White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky" are domestic audience in the original
production. Stage version of the director - an attempt to tell the young
Dostoevsky, his astral connection with the strange and ghostly
Petersburg.
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Schedule for Evening of one-act operas: "THE TWILIGHT NIGHTS" (Sentimental opera on to f. Dostoyevsky ). Paul Hindemith "There and Back Again". "Jewish Songs" 2022
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