Opera Rodion Shchedrin "Enchanted wanderer" opera for three solo voices, chorus and orchestra. World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - Mariinsky II (New Theatre)
Running time: 1 hours 35 minutes
The performance has 1 intermission
Schedule for Rodion Shchedrin "Enchanted wanderer" opera for three solo voices, chorus and orchestra. 2022
Composer: Rodion Shchedrin Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko Musical Director: Maestro Valery Gergiev Composer: Rodion Shchedrin Choreography: Dmitry Korneyev Set Designer: Alexander Orlov Costume Designer: Irina Cherednikova Musical Preparation: Natalia Domskaya Lighting Designer: Yevgeny Ganzburg
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Performed in Russian the performance will have synchronised English supertitles
Premiere of this production: 26 July 2008, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
opera for three solo voices, chorus and orchestra
Music by Rodion Shchedrin Libretto by the composer after the novel by
Nikolai Leskov The Enchanted Wanderer
Performed in
Russian with synchronised English supertitles
The
Performance without interval
Musical Director: Valery
Gergiev Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko Vocal Preparation:
Natalia Domskaya
World premiere: 19 December 2002, Avery Fisher Hall,
New York Russian premiere: 10 July 2007, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky
Theatre, St Petersburg Premiere of this production: 26 July 2008, Concert
Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Materials presented by the
publishers «SCHOTT», Mainz
Running time 1 hours 35 minutes The
performance without interval
SYNOPSIS
ACT I
Ivan Severyanovich Flyagin, a novice at the
monastery in Valaam, is reminiscing about former days. Before renouncing the
material world, he once accidentally whipped a monk to death. The monk appeared
in a vision, reproaching Ivan for taking his life before he could make his final
confession. He told Ivan Severyanovich that he was Godґs "promised" son and that
he would die but never pass on until real "death" comes, so Ivan enters the
monastery on the island of Valaam. And although Ivan Severyanovich did not
believe in it, the monkґs prophesy came true. While on his travels, Ivan was
captured by the Tatars and lived with them for ten years in Ryn-peski. He
managed to flee from them, met with some shepherds on his way back to his native
land and entered the service of a Prince, who admired him for his skill with
horses. But after three years of devoted service Ivan Severyanovich took to
drinking binges. At an inn, Flyagin met a landowner with the gift of hypnosis.
The same night in another inn Ivan Severyanovich spent all the money entrusted
to him by the Prince on Grusha, a beautiful gypsy songstress.
ACT II
When the Prince demands his five thousand
roubles, Flyagin shows remorse and relates his tale of the beautiful gypsy.
Having fallen in love with Grusha, the Prince paid her immense dowry of fifty
thousand gold roubles and took her home with him. But the Prince is a fickle man
and he soon tired of Grusha. During his trip to town, Ivan found out that his
master planned to marry a rich noblewoman and, returning home, could not find
the gypsy girl: the Prince secretly removed her to the swampy woodlands. But
Grusha escaped her incarceration, met Flyagin and forced him to take a dreadful
oath – to kill her, otherwise she would kill the unfaithful Prince and his
young bride. In order to carry out Grushaґs request, Ivan Severyanovich throws
her into a river from a cliff top. The chorus mourns her death. In his visions
Ivan Severyanovich Flyagin hears the voices of the monk and the gypsy girl
Grusha whom he murdered.
Schedule for Rodion Shchedrin "Enchanted wanderer" opera for three solo voices, chorus and orchestra. 2022
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