Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Giacomo Puccini
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
Gioachino Rossini
Francesco Cilea
Richard Wagner
Richard Strauss
Gaetano Donizetti
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Georges Bizet
Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Umberto Giordano
Richard Strauss
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Andrei Rubtsov
Dimitry Rostovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alexei Verstovsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Anton Rubinstein
Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns
Mieczysław Weinberg
Sergei Banevich
Modest Mussorgsky
Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sergei Prokofiev
Giuseppe Verdi
Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
Dmitry Shostakovich
Tatiana Kamysheva
Georges Bizet
Giacomo Puccini
Jacques Offenbach
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dmitry Shostakovich
Hector Berlioz
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Maddalena by Sergei Prokofiev and L’heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel have never been onstage together on the same night. However, the operas-contemporaries complement each other in many ways. The swiftness of the time flow is similar in them: a rapid pulse, like a barometer, captures the anxious atmosphere of the approaching global cataclysms of the early 20th century. The driving force of the plots is a love passion of several men towards one woman, which is fuelled by southern blood (the location of the first opera is Venice, the second unfolds in Toledo). At the same time, the gloomy bloody Maddalena contrasts sharply with L’heure espagnole, a light sitcom. According to the director Vladislavs Nastavševs, this contrast is a reflection of the differences between two cultures, the Russian and French: “Where Russian see mortal passions, the French find a reason to smile and make a joke”.
Premiered on October 29, 2021.
Sung in Russian with English subtitles (Maddalena). Sung in French (L’heure espagnole).
Presented with one interval.
Sergei Prokofiev
Maddalena
Libretto by Magda Lieven
Orchestration by Edward Downes
The score has been made available by Boosey & Hawkes Publishers Limited
Maurice Ravel
L’heure espagnole
Libretto by Franc-Nohain
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Maddalena
Venice, Italy, early 15th century
Beautiful Maddalena is waiting at home for her husband, Genaro the artist, to return. Boats with loving couples are passing by under the setting sun, a chorus of gondoliers is heard from afar. One of the boats carries Maddalena’s friends Gemma and Romeo. They invite her to join them, but she refuses.