Bolshoi Theatre • The Fables of the Vixen, the Duckling and Balda

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Gioacchino Rossini

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Askold’s Grave

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Don Giovanni

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Così fan tutte,ossia La scuola degli amanti

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Jacques Offenbach

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Richard Strauss

Hector Berlioz

Modest Mussorgsky

Anton Rubinstein

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Iolanta

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The Story of Kai and Gerda

Sergei Banevich

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Umberto Giordano

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Maddalena. L’heure espagnole

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Mazeppa

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Opera in three acts with a prologue

Prince Igor

Alexander Borodin

Musical play for children in two acts

The Fables of the Vixen, the Duckling and Balda

Opera in one act

Pimpinone

Georg Philipp Telemann

Opera in one act

Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mikhail Glinka

Dmitry Shostakovich

Francesco Cilea

Giuseppe Verdi

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Moscow, Cheryomushki

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The Tale of Tsar Saltan

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Premiere

The Fables of the Vixen, the Duckling and Balda

About the performance

Alexander Pravednikov. Once There Was a Cow
lyrics by Evgenia Avdeyeva

Sergei Prokofiev. The Ugly Duckling
for soprano and piano (1914), op. 18 (revision 2)
permission to use the score granted by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited

Alexander Pravednikov. Trakata

Igor Stravinsky. Renard
burlesque tale sung and played
permission to use the score granted by Chester Music LTD

Alexander Pravednikov. The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda
opera for a female soloist, female/children’s choir, double bass, balalaika and piano, lyrics by Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev

Premiered at the Beethoven Hall on 10 October 2015.

Revival of the production — 17 October 2024 on the Chamber Stage.

Presented with one interval.