
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
Guiseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

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

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.