Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Umberto Giordano
Gioachino Rossini
Francesco Cilea
Richard Wagner
Richard Strauss
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Georges Bizet
Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
Richard Strauss
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dimitry Rostovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Modest Mussorgsky
Andrei Rubtsov
Gaetano Donizetti
Hector Berlioz
Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
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
Giacomo Puccini
Dmitry Shostakovich
Tatiana Kamysheva
Georges Bizet
Giacomo Puccini
Jacques Offenbach
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dmitry Shostakovich
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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.