
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Sergei Banevich

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Tatiana Kamysheva

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Giacomo Puccini

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Dmitri Shostakovich

Richard Strauss

Georges Bizet

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich

Georges Bizet

Anton Rubinstein
Alexei Verstovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jacques Offenbach

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Umberto Giordano

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Sergei Prokofiev

In the summer of 1898, when work on the composition was at its peak, it was decided that the premiere would take place at Mamontov's Private Russian Opera in Moscow. The part of Marfa was written by the composer taking into account the voice of Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel, who sang at Mamontov’s Opera. The premiere was held on the 22nd of October 1899. The performance designed by Mikhail Vrubel, was staged by one of the founders of the domestic opera directorship, Vasiliy Shkafer, who later held the position of head director at the Bolshoi.
The Tsar’s Bride is the ninth opera by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov and his third reference to the historic dramaturgy of Lev Mei. The composer’s operatic debut was The Maid of Pskov (Pskovityanka), but a year before The Tsar’s Bride a one act opera The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga was created. The plays by Mei that had left the stage of drama theatres a long time earlier remained in the public consciousness due to the stupendous musical realisation of the operas by Rimsky-Korsakov.
Premiered on February 22, 2014.
Performed with one interval.
Libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Ilya Tyumenev based on Lev Mey’s play of the same name
Sets based on the sketches by Fyodor Fedorovsky (1955)
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Act I
The Carousal
Chamber in Oprichnik Grigory Gryaznoy’s house. Grigory is desperate: he has fallen passionately in love with Marfa, daughter of the merchant Sobakin, but she is already betrothed to the young boyar Ivan Lykov. In order to put his love out of his mind, Grigory called some guests to a drinking-party. One of them is the Tsar’s foreign physician Bomelius, the other is Lykov.
The guests arrive, led by Malyuta Skuratov, Gryaznoy’s friend. Lykov who just returned to Russia, tells the assembled company of the life abroad. The guests sing the praises of their sovereign, Ivan the Terrible, drink and dance.