
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Giacomo Puccini

Georges Bizet

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Mieczysław Weinberg

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Richard Wagner

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Hector Berlioz

Georg Philipp Telemann

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Francesco Cilea

Sergei Prokofiev

Modest Mussorgsky

Dmitry Shostakovich
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Tatiana Kamysheva

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Richard Strauss

Gaetano Donizetti

Anton Rubinstein

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sergei Banevich
Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Strauss

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Georges Bizet

Dimitry Rostovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Umberto Giordano

Camille Saint-Saëns
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Andrei Rubtsov

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Alexei Verstovsky

Dmitry Shostakovich

Modest Mussorgsky

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

On the 7th of February 1786 in Vienna a celebration took place, organised by Kaiser Joseph II in honour of the Governor General of the Netherlands. In the programme of the celebration, besides dinner parties and dances, there was a music competition: the audience had to choose what was superior: Italian or German opera. On that occasion, two composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, were asked to create one-act works to a comic plot from life in the theatre’s backstage.
Salieri represented the Italian school at that competition and wrote the opera Prima la musica e poi le parole. Mozart wrote the Singspiel in the German style Der Schauspieldirektor. The composer and the librettist of the latter made fun of fretful and quarrelsome characters, who can often be seen in the theatre world, of self-satisfied prima donnas and a desire of every artist to be the favourite of the audience.
Premiered on December 2, 1975.
Revival of the first production — August 29, 2013.
Run with one-act opera Pimpinone by Georg Philipp Telemann.
Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes.
Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie, adaptation by Boris Pokrovsky
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A comedian-buff ("Buff") runs into the office of the opera director (the Impresario) with good news: he has received permission to set up a new theater, where he will become the main comedian. However, the director is skeptical: he knows exactly that theatrical squabbles can turn any comedian into a tragedian. One after another, aptly named candidates — Madame Herz ("Heart"), Mademoiselle Silberklang ("Silvern Sound") — arrive at the "audition".