The Snow Maiden at Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Dates: (11/8/2016 )
Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre |
46a, Lenina str.
Ekaterinburg,Sverdlovsk Oblast 620000
Phone: +7 (343) 350-80-57
Tickets: 150 ??? - 1200 ???
Running Time: 3 hours 20 minutes
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Opera "The Snow Maiden" with its cult of the pagan poetry, epic power of man and nature merge, divinely intoxicating hymn of beauty and love Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov considered his best creation. "Snow Maiden" strikes a surprisingly empathetic, loving reproduction paintings of folk life, ancient pagan rituals, miraculously folk tales.
In May 1880, "in a real Russian village" Stel?vo, under the Arc, he settled with his family in the summer of Rimsky-Korsakov, in love with the story "Snow Maiden". Lovely groves, fields of rye and buckwheat - all in harmony with his then-pantheistic mood. "What a thick and gnarled branch or stump, covered with moss, seemed to me leshim or housing; Forest "V?lcine?, Ocni?a" - reserved forest; Nude Kopytetskaya slide - Yarilin mountain, triple echo heard from our balcony, as the voice of devils and other monsters "- Rimsky-Korsakov later admitted in his memoirs," My Musical Life. " In two and a half months (June - mid August), the composer wrote a sketch (a prologue and four acts) of its lyric opera. Interestingly, at first reading - in 1874 - the play Ostrovsky little like Rimsky-Korsakov; but returned to it in the winter 1879-80, the composer "just an amazing sight to its poetic beauty," as he wrote about this in the "Chronicle of My Musical Life." The beauty of the play fabulousness AN Ostrovsky and those two worlds - the magic and the ground, where its action takes place; the beauty of its main ideas: the eternal indestructible harmony and harsh laws of nature, according to which should take place and the human being.
Scenic fate of "Snow Maiden" is ambiguous. The premiere, which took place at the Mariinsky Theatre January 29, 1882, Rimsky-Korsakov brought more frustration than satisfaction. No statement of luxury (which management has spent about forty thousand rubles), unseen before in Russian operas or successful execution of the composer could not reconcile with cuts made at the insistence of EF conductor Nápravník.
The recognition and love of the public came to "The Snow Maiden" later, and even during his lifetime, it has become the repertoire of his operas.
Scenic history of opera theater in Yekaterinburg has six productions (1913, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1944 and 1969). Theatre again turns to the opera score of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, enriching its Russian operatic repertoire the best works of the composer.
The performance of the Ekaterinburg Theatre - a performance about falling to Earth a great star, which turned out to people in the world, has broken something usual order of their life, it's springtime tale, which is interesting for adults and children. The stage version of the play as a whole meets the composer's idea, no "rework classic" performance is quite traditional. Although this does not mean that the worldview of modern man did not affect this setting. I said, just not at the level of external od?zhek, but at the level of accommodation. It is a tradition that goes back to what we call the Silver Age, the exhibitions, which are organized Diaghilev, his Russian Seasons in Paris, is the "new art" is art nouveau. Just not the "modern", we are talking about today, not the performances that we now call "modern style." It is a modernist who truly reinvents the classic forms of fine arts and art history in general, it's best pearl necklace, time-tested performances. To this formulation, to a large extent led scenography Igor Ivanov: The well-known St. Petersburg artist has created on the stage, and the mysterious winter forest thickets, and ancient towers of the kingdom Berendeys along characters in simple clothes with national colors and a magical characters giving the silver-gleaming paint. And so the tone was in tune with the wise and fresh beauty of folk songs, lyrical arias, poetry itself action, imbued with pagan joy of merging with nature, and her naive deification: "In Yekaterinburg" Snow Maiden "Ivanov appealed to the style of Vasnetsov and Bilibin, but did not create styling and impressive self-statement. He came up with a combined game space with an octagonal podium, the altar in the middle, carved pillars at the edges of the stage and scenery enchanting beauty in the background from which the characters appear on the scene. Costumes in the "Snow Maiden", each of which is on the level of taste and quality of performance worthy of display cases in the museum of arts and crafts, were grouped by shades of color and texture so that exactly correspond to the nature of the colorful orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov. It is this scenographic approach to the interpretation of the opera, which is almost contemporary theater enjoys success created a spectacle, and "The Snow Maiden", perhaps for the first time in its history, won a convincing decision stage. "
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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