
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Sergei Banevich

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Tatiana Kamysheva

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Giacomo Puccini

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Dmitri Shostakovich

Richard Strauss

Georges Bizet

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich

Georges Bizet

Anton Rubinstein
Alexei Verstovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jacques Offenbach

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Umberto Giordano

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Sergei Prokofiev

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov gave his opera Sadko an unusual genre definition of opera-bylina. By referring to Novgorod legends, he created an epic work that demands an excellent ensemble of performers and scenic design of a large scale. Crowd scenes alternate with moving lyric episodes distinguished by exquisite beauty of melodies. The author called the musical language used for the opera “bylina recitative”.
Friends and colleagues helped Rimsky-Korsakov with the work on the libretto: critic Vladimir Stasov, mathematician Nikolai Shtrup and music lover Vasili Yastrebtsev. Later, an expert in ancient Russian literature, Vladimir Belsky, who eventually became a famous librettist and permanent co-author of the composer, joined the process. It was Belsky who enriched the characters’ language with ancient words and turns of speech to create a sense of immersion into the old times.
Premiered on February 14, 2020.
Presented with two intervals.
Sunday, 19:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Scene one
Sadko finds himself at the feast in a rich house of the Novgorod merchants’s guild. Guild leaders order a song in praise of heroic deeds. Nezhata, a young guslar, sings for them. Unable to hold his tongue at the table, Sadko admonishes the merchants for their clinging to the antique traditions and vain boasting. Affronted by Sadko’s accusations, the merchants angrily banish him from the feast.
Scene two
Sadko comes to the shore of Lake Ilmen. Surprised to see a beautiful girl appear there, he desperately tries to find out her identity. The girl reveals her secret to him: she is Princess Volkhova, the youngest daughter of the Sea Tsar and Tsarina Hydraqua. Her beauty enchants Sadko into total oblivion. Volkhova promises to help Sadko and tells him about the three magic goldfishes he will capture once he goes fishing in Lake Ilmen with his net. These fishes will make Sadko rich and prosperous.