Rimsky-Korsakov. Opera "Kashchei the Immortal"

The III St. Petersburg Music Festival named after S.K. Gorkovenko continued with a program dedicated to the 180th anniversary of Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov's birth. The one-act opera ("autumn fairy tale") "Kashchei the Deathless" (plot by Yevgeny Petrovsky, libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Sofia Rimskaya-Korsakova) was performed in concert at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg. The opera "Kashchei the Deathless" was completed by the composer in 1902. Its premiere took place on December 12 (25) of the same year at the Mamontov Private Opera on the stage of the Solodovnikov Theater in Moscow. Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov himself conducted. The opera was enthusiastically received by the public. In the five characters of the opera, her contemporaries guessed "characters" of their time. The kingdom of Kashchei was associated with autocratic power, and Kashchei with the image of the then all-powerful chief prosecutor of the Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev. Kashchei's daughter is an image of the seductive suppression of freedom, and the personification of the elemental forces of the people are the knight Ivan the Prince and the hero Burya. Performers:

Governor's Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg

Conductor - Anton Lubchenko

Chamber Choir "Petersburg Serenades"

Conductor - Egor Losev

Kashchei the Immortal - Alexander Timchenko

Tenor, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater

Kashcheyevna - Yulia Nikanorova

Mezzo-soprano, soloist of the Helikon Opera Theater

Princess of Unfailing Beauty - Anna Denisova

Soprano, guest soloist of the Mariinsky Theater

Ivan the Prince - Vladimir Moroz

Baritone, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater

Burya the Hero - Vadim Kravets

Bass, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater

The program includes music by:

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Opera ("autumn fairy tale") "Kashchei the Deathless" (1902) Concert performance

Hermitage Theatre, St. Petersburg, December 14, 2024