Rachmaninov:
Aleko
Kostas Smoriginas (Aleko), Sergey Semishkur (Young gipsy), Alexander Vassiliev (Old gipsy), Anna Nechaeva (Zemfira), Yaroslava Kozina (Gipsy woman)
Francesca da Rimini
Sergei Leiferkus (Boris), Anna Nechaeva (Francesca), Dmitry Golovnin (Dmitri), Ilya Silchukov (The Duke), Alexander Kravets (Money lender), Alexander Vassiliev (Servant)
The Miserly Knight, Op. 24
Dimitris Tiliakos (Lancelotto), Anna Nechaeva (Francesca), Sergey Semishkur (Paolo), Alexander Vassiliev (Virgil’s shade), Dmitry Golovnin (Dante)
Rachmaninov represents the waning of Romanticism in Russia yet, even by Russian standards, he was extremely fatalistic. His three one-act operas with libretti based on writings by Pushkin and Dante are linked by their theme: fate follows in the footsteps of sin, whether it be a matter of jealous murder, greed or illicit passion.
This triptych is a production of la Monnaie and is conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov and directed by Kirsten Dehlholm. |
