
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Banevich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Richard Strauss

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Georges Bizet

Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexei Verstovsky

Anton Rubinstein

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Sergei Prokofiev

Modest Mussorgsky

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich
Umberto Giordano

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Giacomo Puccini

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Tatiana Kamysheva

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.
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».