
Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Antonín Dvořák
Umberto Giordano

Antonio Salieri

Alexei Verstovsky

Dmitri Shostakovich

Giacomo Puccini

Benjamin Britten

Richard Strauss

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Modest Mussorgsky

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Giuseppe Verdi
Hector Berlioz

Georges Bizet

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Strauss

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Dmitri Shostakovich


Mieczysław Weinberg

Gaetano Donizetti

Giuseppe Verdi

Anton Rubinstein

Giacomo Puccini

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioacchino Rossini

Gioachino Rossini

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Gaetano Donizetti

Sergei Banevich

Georges Bizet

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

George Frideric Handel

Sergei Prokofiev

Jacques Offenbach

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Tatiana Kamysheva

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Dmitri Shostakovich
Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dimitry Rostovsky

Richard Wagner

The idea of writing an opera based on Pushkin’s The Stone Guest came to Dargomyzhsky in 1863, however, he approached the work only three years later. According to the composer, he felt frightened by how unusual and brave the task was. “Amusing myself with Pushkin’s Don Juan”, he wrote, “Trying something really rare: writing the music for the scenes from The Stone Guest as they are, not changing a word”. The work moved forward slowly due to the fast-declining health of the composer. The Stone Guest provoked great interest, even at the stage of writing. At the meetings of the Mighty Handful, Dargomyzhsky regularly introduced his associates to the new pages, always saying: “If I die unable to complete The Stone Guest, let César Cui finish the writing and Rimsky-Korsakov orchestrate it”.
Premiered on 11 March 2016.
Presented with one interval.
Act I
Scene One
Don Juan, banished from Madrid for killing the Commander de Solva, has secretly returned. Accompanied by his servant Leporello, he hides near a monastery outside Madrid. Remembering his past affairs, he plans to get in the city to continue his adventures. The Monk tells him that Doña Anna, the widow of the Commander, visits the cemetery every day. Don Juan sees Doña Anna and feels an urge to get to know her.