
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georges Bizet

Giacomo Puccini

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Mieczysław Weinberg

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Giuseppe Verdi

Giacomo Puccini

Sergei Banevich

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Francesco Cilea

Sergei Prokofiev

Modest Mussorgsky

Dmitry Shostakovich

Richard Wagner
Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Georg Philipp Telemann

Hector Berlioz

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Tatiana Kamysheva

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky

Richard Strauss

Gioachino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Anton Rubinstein

Richard Strauss

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Benjamin Britten

Georges Bizet

Dimitry Rostovsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Umberto Giordano

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Andrei Rubtsov

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Alexei Verstovsky

Dmitry Shostakovich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The premiere of the production took place at the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre, named after B. A. Pokrovsky, on the 14th of June 2000. Boris Pokrovsky was very fond of Gogol and admired Mussorgsky. The Fair at Sorochyntsi belongs amongst the best directorial works of the master in his latest creative period. The Chamber Musical Theatre received the State Prize of the Russian Federation for this production and retained it in the 2018/19 season.
Night on Bold mountain, Red Jacket and other devilry, that is pierced with unique “Little Russian” (Ukrainian) atmosphere and Gogol’s distinct sense of humour. This is the backdrop to the flourishing of the love between Gritsko and Parasya. The Fair at Sorochyntsi is a short story from the cycle Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka that was arranged to the music by Modest Mussorgsky.
Premiered at the Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theater on 14 June, 2000.
Revival — 2018/19 season. The first performance was held on September 22, 2018.
Presented with one interval.
Libretto by composer after the novel of the same name by Nikolai Gogol
Completed version by Vissarion Shebalin
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
«How intoxicating, how magnificent is a summer day in Little Russia*! How luxuriously warm the hours when midday glitters in stillness and sultry heat and the blue fathomless ocean covering the plain like a dome seems to be slumbering, bathed in languor...»
Nikolai Gogol
Act I
Life at the village fair in Sorochintsy turns like a motley wheel. Cherevik has arrived with his wife Khivrya and daughter Parasya. While Cherevik is trying to sell the mare and wheat, Parasia meets a young man, Grytsko.
Suddenly Cherevik appears. At first, he is about to rebuff the young man, whereupon he finds out that the fellow is the son of his old friend Ochrim Golopupenko, and welcomes him. In the meantime rumours are circulating at the fair about some «Red Jacket»*, supposedly being pursued by the Devil himself.