The Snow Maiden at Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Dates: (12/30/2014 - 1/31/2015 )
Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre |
46a, Lenina str.
Ekaterinburg,Sverdlovsk Oblast 620075
Phone: +7 (343) 350-32-07
Tickets: 100 ???. - 1500 ???.
Running Time: 3:20
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Opera snow maiden with her poetry of pagan worship, the epic power of the merging of man and nature, divine hymn of beauty and intoxicating love Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov considered his best creation. «Snegurochka» is surprisingly responsive, love playing paintings of folk life, rituals of ancient paganism, miraculous images of fairy tales.
In may, 1880, "the real Russian village" Stelëvo, under the Arch, he settled with his family in the summer of Rimsky-Korsakov, in love with the plot of "the snow maiden". Beautiful groves, fields of rye and buckwheat is superbly matched with his then panteisti?eskim mood. "Any fat and clumsy bitches or mossy stump, seemed the demon or housing; Les "V?lcine?"-protected forest; naked Kopyteckaâ Hill Ârilinoj Hill, the triple echo, heard sound from our balcony, as if to wood spirits and other monsters ", Rimsky-Korsakov later confessed in his memoirs" Chronicle of my musical life ". Two and a half months (from June to mid-August) the composer has composed an outline (prologue and four acts) the Lyric Opera. Interestingly, that at first reading-in 1874, is little liked Ostrovsky's play by Rimsky-Korsakov; but he returned to it in the winter of 1879-80 years, just received his sight on the composer's astonishing poetic beauty ", as he wrote about it in the" Chronicle of my musical life ". The beauty of fabulousness plays A.n. Ostrovsky, and those two worlds-the magic and the Earth, where its effect; the beauty of the main thoughts: unbreakable harmony of the perennial and harsh laws of nature, which must take place and the human being.
Stage the fate of "the snow maiden" is ambiguous. The premiere, held at the Mariinsky Theatre, January 29, 1882, brought Rimsky-Korsakov more frustration than fulfillment. A luxury setting (on which the Directorate has spent about forty thousand rubles), unseen before in Russian operas, nor a good performance could not reconcile with the composer's notes made on the insistence of the conductor È.F. Napravnik.
Recognition and love of the public came to "Santa Baby" later, and even during the author's lifetime it has become the theatre of his operas.
Theatrical history in Ekaterinburg Opera Theatre has six productions (1913, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1944 and 1969 years). Theatre revisits the operatic score Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, enriching its Russian operatic repertoire of the composer's best works.
A play by the theatre is a theatre performance on falling to the ground a beautiful star, which, finding themselves in the human world, broke the usual order of their life, this spring fairy tale, which is interesting for adults and children. The stage version of the play as a whole meets the intent of the composer, no alteration of the classics ", the play is quite traditional. Although this does not mean that the ideology of the modern man is not affected by this setting. Affected, not only at the level of the external odëžek, and at the level of their stay. It is a tradition that goes back to what we call the silver age, for exhibitions, which organized the Diaghilev, the Russian seasons in Paris, this "new art", it's modern. Not only the "modern" that we're talking about today, not those performances, that we now call "modernovymi". This modern, which really reinvents the classic forms of fine art and art history at all, it's a pearl necklace is the best, time-tested performances. In this formulation, largely inspired set design Igor Ivanov: Famous Indian artist created on stage and the mysterious winter woods, thickets and ancient towers of the Kingdom beyond conspiracy, the revived heroes in simple clothes with national flavor and only magic characters giving silver-sparkling paint. And this was in tune with the tone of a wise and fresh beauty of folk songs, Arias, poetic lyricism of the action, draws upon a pagan joy of merging with nature, and its naïve deification: "In his" Doomsday "Ivanov requested the stylistics Vasnetsov and Bilibin, but not created the styling and impressive self expression. He came up with a combo of play space with an octagonal podium-altar in the Middle, carved pillars on the edge of the enchanting landscapes and scenes of beauty in the background from which the characters are on stage. Costumes in "Doomsday", each of which in terms of taste and quality worthy of a display case in the Museum of decorative and applied art, are grouped by the shades of color and texture to accurately correlate with the nature of the colourful orchestration by Rimsky-Korsakov. It is this theme approach to interpretation of the Opera, which has almost no modern theatre, created the successful performance and "Snow Maiden", maybe for the first time in its history won a convincing dramatic solution. "
Cast and Creative team for The Snow Maiden at Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s play of the same name
Music Director: Vello Pyahn
Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk
Stage Designer: Igor Ivanov
Chorus Master: Elvira Gaifullina
Choreographer: Galina Kaloshina
Music Director: Vello Pyahn
Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk
Stage Designer: Igor Ivanov
Chorus Master: Elvira Gaifullina
Choreographer: Galina Kaloshina
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