RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, N.A.: Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh (The) (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, 2008)
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Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii (Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Composer:
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich
Libretto/Text Author:
Belsky, Vladimir Nikolayevich
Conductor:
Vedernikov, Alexander
Orchestra:
Cagliari Teatro Lirico Orchestra
Chorus:
Cagliari Teatro Lirico Chorus
Chorus Master:
Fogliazza, Fulvio
Bedyay:
Gilmanov, Valery
Burunday:
Naumenko, Alexander
Fevronya:
Monogarova, Tatiana
Fyodor Poyarok:
Hakobyan, Gevorg
Grishka Kuterma:
Gubsky, Mikhail
Hereditary prince Vsevolod Yuryevich:
Panfilov, Vitaly
Notable:
Floris, Gianluca
Notable:
Kalbus, Marek
Page:
Gulordava, Marika
Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich:
Kazakov, Mikhail
Set/Stage Designer:
Nekrosius, Marius
Costume Designer:
Gultiayeva, Nadezhda
Lighting Designer:
Jankauskas, Audrius
Stage Director:
Nekrosius, Eimuntas
Television Director:
Ricchetti, Matteo
Venue: Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
Playing Time: 03:07:42
Catalogue Number: 2.110277-78
UPC: 747313527755
The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army's entry to the Great Kitezh and the city's subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that is contemporary and even fairly advanced. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer's rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.
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