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NOVAT presents
NOVAT presents
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Rostov State Opera and Ballet presents
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The Kasatkina and Vasilyov State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre presents
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The Kasatkina and Vasilyov State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre presents
The Kasatkina and Vasilyov State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre presents
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Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
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Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
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Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovyanenko presents
"To make the listener 'weep, shudder, die' – this is how Vincenzo Bellini defined the essence of opera singing to the libretto Carlo Pepoli. In 1834 in Paris two Italians – a young ambitious composer and an emigrant poet – collaborated on the text for the opera I Puritani, drawing inspiration from the recently staged play by François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Boniface (known as Scribe), Têtes rondes et Cavaliers. This opera would become the final triumph of the prematurely departed bel canto master. On January 24, 1835 at the Italian Theatre in Paris, as Bellini wrote, 'the whole audience went mad, such noise, such shouts, it was astonishing to witness the temperament of the public.' This marked the start of I Puritani's stage history with a performance in St Petersburg as early as 1840.
Premiere of this production: 6 February 2024.
The performance has one interval.
Libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli, based on the play Têtes rondes et cavaliers written by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Boniface, known as Saintine
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Director: Vladislav Furmanov
Set Designer, Costume Designer: Galina Filatova
Lighting Designer: Anton Nikolaev
Video Designer: Alexandra Agrinskaya
Stage Plastic Assistant Director: Maria Korableva
Chorus Master: Pavel Teplov
Sunday, 18:00
Thursday, 18:00
The action unfolds in 1649, amid the English Civil War, near Plymouth.
Act I
The terrace of Lord Walton's castle welcomes the dawn and the guards change shifts. Officer Bruno Robertson joins the guards and morning prayers are heard. Today, Elvira, the daughter of General Governor Walter Walton commanding Cromwell's forces is to be wed. Guests gather for the celebration, including Sir Richard Forth, a colonel, who confesses to Robertson his dismay about the wedding as he was supposed to marry Elvira.