The Tsar’s Bride at Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Dates: (11/1/2015 - 1/9/2016 )
Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre |
46a, Lenina str.
Yekaterinburg,Sverdlovsk Oblast 620075
Phone: +7 (343) 350-80-57
Tickets: 100 ???. - 2000 ???.
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It is encouraging that cooperation between the two largest theaters in the country - the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre continues to develop successfully. Creative contacts between our teams are having a very long time, and they have always been based not only on common agreement, understanding and professionalism, but in a special sense of camaraderie, of belonging to a beloved and dear to us all opera and ballet. Our common history is rich with various theatrical events. Tours of entire communities, sharing soloists, musicians, directors - all this takes place today, as evidenced by the statement in the Yekaterinburg opera "The Tsar's Bride" by Rimsky-Korsakov, with sets and costumes, which are made by academician of painting rarity sketches Fyodor Fedorovsky. Puts our performance director Michael Pandzhavidze and orchestra and opera conductor of the Bolshoi collective works Klinichev Paul. This experience in the Yekaterinburg Opera House has already taken place - recently a very successful premiere of the ballet "Giselle" A.Adana delivered ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater People's Artist of the USSR, now a teacher Lyudmila Semenyaka. Life itself and time put forward new demands and new challenges, opening up new prospects for the creators of Theatre Arts in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. And I am sure that the decide and they will be implemented vzaimnouspeshno.
With kindest regards,
General Director of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
AG Iksanov
Among the seven marriages Russian Tsar Ivan IV the most short-lived and bizarre was the third - Marfa Sobakina. The sad fate of this young beauty is very briefly described in historical literature. She became the heroine of the opera Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), "The Tsar's Bride"; however, the libretto of this beautiful piece of music is far from true events of the second half of the XVI century. However, the past does not become less interesting, and the story of Martha Sobakina, the third wife of Tsar Ivan continues to captivate the attention of many centuries later. The basis of the opera put the drama of the Russian poet, translator and playwright L.A.Meya, written in 1849. Writing "The Tsar's Bride" was launched by the composer Rimsky-Korsakov in February 1898 and completed in ten months. The premiere took place on October 22 (November 3), 1899, in the Moscow theater Mamontov Private Opera. The first presentation, according to the chronicle of "Moscow News", apply to the National Music Festival. Orchestra led by student-composer M.M.Ippolitov Ivanov, wrote sketches of scenery MAVrubel, and his wife, an outstanding singer-N.I.Zabela Vrubel created the image of Martha - one of the finest in the Russian opera.
1890 - this is the era of high maturity in the creative life of Rimsky-Korsakov. One opera is written in the draft or projected in sketches, other tools, is preparing for a third statement; simultaneously in different theaters resumed first set piece. Rimsky-Korsakov that period diverse forms and genres. By definition of the composer, "Mlada", "The Night Before Christmas" and "Sadko" form a trilogy; then comes the saying again the words of the author, "another teaching or alteration." This is the "development of melody, cantabile", which is reflected in the songs and chamber operas of this period ("Mozart and Salieri", the final version of the prologue to "The Maid of Pskov") and most clearly - in "The Tsar's Bride."
Appeal to the drama by Lev Mey was a "long-standing intention to" composer - probably since the 1860s, when he Rimsky-Korsakov wrote in another play Mey his "Maid of Pskov", and on the story "The Tsar's Bride" and wondered M.A.Balakirev AP Borodin (the latter even made some sketches choirs guardsmen, whose music was later used in "Prince Igor"). Brilliant Opera playwright, a brilliant expert on the specifics of the theater, Rimsky-Korsakov alone planned the scenario of a new opera, and "the final production of the libretto with the development of lyrical moments and false, additional scenes," Elijah instructed Tyumeneva, writers, dramatists and his former pupil. (By the way, writing a few years later, "Servilia" play Mey, Rimsky-Korsakov "embraced" all of this drama, which was loved by him, the author.)
To little his operas Nikolai Andreyevich treated with such tenderness, as "The Tsar's Bride." Perhaps it was due to the fact that the composer drew the story itself. The era of the reign of Ivan the Terrible had always been of great interest. Images moribund beautiful and virtuous Martha, passionate and deeply unhappy Lubasha no less unhappy in his unrequited love for Martha Dirty nobleman could not awaken the creative imagination of Rimsky-Korsakov.
Biography of Tsar Ivan IV, nicknamed the Terrible, very eventful and very unusual. During his long life, the emperor had not one or two, but seven wives. One of them was Martha Sobakina.
The marriage of the great princes of Moscow was a solemn and colorful ceremony, which was preceded by extensive preparations. With the rise of Muscovy at the end of the XIV century in Russia is a new tradition of the king's marriage. At the Byzantine symbols, Tsar of All Russia have adopted the Byzantine tradition of the bride's choice of the best girls of the state. For the first time, "the choice of the bride," was set up with the father of Ivan the Terrible, Vasily III: by decree from Moscow all the service people were to bring their daughters to the parade. The criterion of selection was not only the beauty, but also the health of girls. The selected contestants waiting for the new look up to as long as the sovereign does not make your final choice. Once a girl is elected and anoint the royal bride, her life changed radically. From now on, the ratio of the girl became very special: a bride and later wife of the great sovereign actually looked like on the sacred person. From now on, it had to be hidden from human eyes: looking at the Empress not allowed virtually anyone. Relatives could not call her my cousin - wedding ceremony, which followed soon after the king's choice of bride, turned to them as it is for all Russians, simple girl into a great queen ...
In 1572, in the Alexander settlement was conducted review of the best women of the state. Tsar Ivan the Terrible had to choose a bride, "Missing widowhood, but not chaste, it has long been looking for a third wife ... Of all the cities had been brought brides in the Sloboda, and the nobles, and commoners, the number of more than two thousand: each represents him especially. First, he chose twenty-four, and after twelve ... a long time compared to their beauty, the amenities in mind; Finally I chose all Vasilyev Sobakin Martha, the daughter of a merchant of Novgorod, at the same time choosing a bride for the elder prince, Evdokia Bogdanov Saburov. Happy Fathers beauties of boyars do nothing ... raising his dignity, and gave them wealth, opal mining, possessions confiscated from ancient families of princes and boyars. But the royal bride was taken ill, began to lose weight, dry: said she was spoiled villains, haters of John familial well-being ... An evil accuser, Dr. Elisha Bomeley ... before the king to destroy Likhodeev poison and was, as we are assured, devastating zelie with infernal skill that poisons the dying a designated tyrant minute. So John had executed one of their favorites Gregory Dirty ... and many other recognized parties in the poisoning of the royal bride ... "(NM Karamzin." History of the Russian State ").
O wives of Ivan the Terrible, including on Martha Sobakina, much has been written. However, the history full of dramatic ups and downs of love and detail have no historical basis and are only speculations. The libretto of the opera "The Tsar's Bride" is not intended for validity: it is in front of us an imaginary picture of events on the basis of which was created wonderful music Rimsky-Korsakov.
And the play and the opera, written on it, do not belong to the type of "historical dramas", as the same as "The Maid of Pskov" or "Boris Godunov" and the type of products in which the historical situation and the characters - the only premise for the development of the action. Not pushing these difficulties which arose in the early operas of Rimsky-Korsakov (large folk scenes, paintings rites, fantasy worlds), the plot of "The Tsar's Bride" focuses on pure music, pure lyricism. In the "Tsar's Bride" composer, lovingly drawing Russian life, is not trying to convey the spirit of the age. He also nearly eliminated from the sound of their favorite landscapes. Everything is focussed on people, on the movements of the soul of the drama characters. Vladimir Belsky, the librettist wonderful late operas, wrote about the "Tsar's Bride": "It is the perfect combination so often fighting among themselves of beauty and psychological truth, a deeply poetic tragedy that listening spellbound, do not analyze and memorize ... ".
Ages: Age group 12+
Cast and Creative team for The Tsar’s Bride at Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Music Director: Pavel Klinichev (The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia)
Staging: Mikhail Pandzhavidze (The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia)
Sets and costumes designed by Fyodor Fedorovsky, People’s Artist of the USSR, and Nonna Fedorovskaya for the 1966 Bolshoi Theatre production
Renewal Designer: Igor Oganov
Light Designor: Sergey Shevchenko (The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia)
Chorus Master: Valery Kopanev, Merited Arts Worker
Staging: Mikhail Pandzhavidze (The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia)
Sets and costumes designed by Fyodor Fedorovsky, People’s Artist of the USSR, and Nonna Fedorovskaya for the 1966 Bolshoi Theatre production
Renewal Designer: Igor Oganov
Light Designor: Sergey Shevchenko (The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia)
Chorus Master: Valery Kopanev, Merited Arts Worker
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