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
The Story of Kai and Gerda is one of the most famous operas by Sergei Banevich. The world premiere of the opera (under the name The Story of Gerda and Kai) was held on the 24th of December 1980 at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad (now the Mariinsky Theatre). The opera was destined to have a happy stage fortune. It was shown in Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Perm, Minsk, Kiev, Vladikavkaz, Pskov, and Novosibirsk. At the Bolshoi Theatre, it was shown for the first time on the 28th of November 2014.
Premiered on 28 November 2014.
Presented with one interval.
Sunday, 12:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Saturday, 18:00
Saturday, 12:00
Friday, 19:00
Friday, 12:00
Thursday, 19:00
Thursday, 12:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 12:00
Sunday, 19:00
Friday, 18:00
Friday, 12:00
Thursday, 19:00
Thursday, 12:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Wednesday, 12:00
Prologue
A rocky landscape.
The trolls are piecing together the shards of what they call the Mirror of Evil.
Act I
Introduction
The Lamplighter, our guide through this story, tells us that once upon a time an orphaned boy named Kai found a loving home in the good old town of Odense, where the Grandmother took care about him and little Gerda became his friend.
Scene 1.
Odense.
The townsfolk of Odense are looking forward for Spring to drive away winter’s chill and snow.
Kai and Gerda are carried away with their exciting game. The Grandmother is calling them home, but they don’t hear.
The trolls arrive. They can’t bear the merry mood of the townsfolk, and above all they hate Kai’s cheerful laughter. The trolls want to spoil the festivity, but the townsfolk drive them away. The trolls plot to revenge.