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06 March 2019 (Wed), 19:00 Moscow theatre "New Opera" - Opera Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Snow maiden" (Opera in two acts)

Running time: 2 hours 35 minutes (till 21:35)


Schedule for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Snow maiden" (Opera in two acts) 2022

Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Set Designer: Semen Pastuh
Costume Designer: Galina Solovieva
Choreography: Ivan Fadeyev
Stage Director: Valery Raku

Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra of the "New Opera" Theatre

Performed in Russian, with syncronized English supertitles

Premiere of this production: 17 February 2002

SNOW MAIDEN - NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Opera in two acts
Libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Based on the drama by Alexander Ostrovsky
Choirmasters - Andrei Lazarev, Sergei Lysenko
Lighting Designer - Gleb Filshtinsky

This pagan story of love is set against the background of Shrovetide celebrations. The Snow Maiden, the child of Bonny Spring and Grandfather Frost, seeks to leave her woodland solitude and join mankind, charmed, in particular, by the songs of Lel, a shepherd. Frost is alarmed and warns her to keep away from the rays of the sun, while Spring promises help, if need be.

The Snow Maiden has a heart of ice, but this will melt, if she feels the warmth of love. When Mizguir appears, the Snow Maiden kindles so fierce a flame of passion in his heart that he deserts the beautiful and passionate Kupava whom he is to marry. But his avowal of love for the Snow Maiden meets with no response. Bewildered by the vagaries of Cupid, the Snow Maiden runs away, and Mizguir is distracted by the protective actions of the Forest-Spirit who leads him away. The Snow Maiden, who now seeks the warmth of love, returns to her mother. Spring, in answer to her daughter’s pleas, bestows upon her child the power of human love. The Snow Maiden meets Mizguir again and responds to his declaration of love. Mizguir and the Snow Maiden ask Tsar Berendey to wed them. But a ray of the warm spring sun falls upon her and she floats to Heaven in a vapour. Mizguir drowns himself, in despair.

Frost loses his power over Bonny Spring and cannot bring cold any longer. The Tsar and his people may now celebrate the return of the Sun, which they do in a final triumphant chorus.
Opera-goers will probably for the first time see a non-fairytale love story. Events are unfolding amid the pagan festival of Maslenitsa (the Pancake week), full of merry-making, enjoyment of life and mischief. Maslenitsa is a short span of time between Winter and Spring, between eternal calm and eternal love (which of them do people need more?). It bursts into the fairytale people’s life to make it madly real. Mythical things are interwoven with earthly life, while earthly life rises to a myth. One has to see it.

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Schedule for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Snow maiden" (Opera in two acts) 2022


Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Snow maiden" (Opera in two acts) - Novaya Opera
 
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Opera-goers will probably for the first time see a non-fairytale love story. Events are unfolding amid the pagan festival of Maslenitsa (the Pancake week), full of merry-making, enjoyment of life and mischief. Maslenitsa is a short span of time between Winter and Spring, between eternal calm and eternal love (which of them do people need more?).


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