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Opera The Tsar`s Bride

Running time: 180 min.


Schedule for The Tsar`s Bride 2022

Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Libretto – I. F. Tumenev


Young tzar’s oprichnick Gregory Griasnoy feels himself desperate. From sometime ago dashing amusements seem to him boring. He felt all-absorbing love for the first time in his life. He sent matchmakers to the father of his beloved Marfa. All for nothing. A merchant Sobakin refused, saying that Marfa is a bride of boyar Ivan Likov. Trying to forget his grief Griasnoy called oprichnics headed by Maluta Skuratovon on a feast. Tzars doctor Bomeliy and Ivan Likov came with them. Griasnoy entertains them with songs and dances of singer’s men and women. The day is breaking. Everybody go away except Bomeliy. Griasnoy asks the doctor to get some medicine that can bewitch Marfa, promising a good reward for the service. Lubasha, a girl of Griasnoy, hears this conversation. She is consumed with jealous suspicions. She decides to take revenge.
A street in aleksandrovsky suburb. A crowd of people leaves the monastery. Citizens are warned with arriving of unexpected guests – a group of oprichnicks. Marfa and Duniasha also go out of the monastery accompanied by a housekeeper Petrovna. Marfa tells her friend about her childhood and her beloved fianc? Ivan Likov. Their conversation is interrupted by appearance of 2 horsemen. On of them looks on Marfa intently. This is Ivan the Terrible. Marfa doesn’t recognize the tzar. The evening is coming and street becomes lonely. Lubasha steals up to the house of Marfa and looks inside. The beauty of the girl strikes her. She decides to kill Marfa with the help of poison. Bomeliy to give poison but he demands her love instead of that. Lubasha refuses with indignation. But then she hears Marfa’s laughing and agrees.
In the house of Sobakin future marriage is preparing. Marfa returns from the tzar’s bride-show where the most beautiful girls were gathered. Everybody congratulate Ivan Likov and his bride. Griasnoy imperceptibly strews poison to Marfa’s cup. Appears Maluta with declaration that tzar chooses Marfa to become his bride.
A room in the tzar’s palace. Sobakin is distressed by his daughter’s illness which nobody can cure. Griasnoy appears. He reports to Marfa that Likov confessed after a torment that he wanted to kill the tzar’s bride with the poison. He is executed on a tzar’s command/ Marfa can’t stand the grief with. To her obscured mind it seems that her beloved fianc? Vania is before her.. She tells her dream to him. Griaasnoy understands with terror that he is deceived in his hopes. He ruined his love.
Griasnoy recognizes all he had done because he can’t bear torments of his soul. Lubasha appears and confesses that she had changed poison. In a mad fury Griasnoy kills Lubasha. He is caught and taken away immediately. Only Marfa who understands nothing addresses to Griasnoy with farewell words: ”Come tomorrow, Vania”




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