25.02.2011
The Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre
The days of Perm in St Petersburg at the Mikhailovsky Theatre are opened by the productions by Georgy Isaakian at the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre.
On 9 November the public will see the opera A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Tchaikovsky and Anton Rubinstein’s Christus on 10 November.
The composer Alexander Tchaikovsky follows Alexander Solzhenitsyn and in a lapidary though forceful way manages to convey the unbearable atmosphere of the camp life, where the main character manages to survive and stay a human being. All the text fitted in two acts. The performers wearing hardened wrappers and ear-flapped hats sing the text of Solzhenitsyn’s lines. However simple it is, the scene is a most impressive one. The production received its premiere at the Perm Theatre in May 2009. It was nominated for the highest Russian National Theatre premium Golden Mask in seven categories and got the prize in the category “The Best Conductor in Opera.”
Seven scenes of the Anton Rubinstein’s sacred opera Christus are the seven major episodes of the New Testament: the Birth of Jesus Christ and the Adoration of the Magi, the Sermon on the Mount, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Annunciation, the Temptation of Christ in the Desert, the Last Supper, and Pilate’s Judgment. The history of the opera is almost a detective story. Rubinstein composed the opera for a German theatre and it received a single performance in Leipzig in 1894. The composer hoped to present the opera in Russia but never managed to — he died in half a year after the opera had been premiered. Rubinstein’s great-grandson Anton Sharoyev found the score of the opera in a library in Berlin and the opera received its Russian premiere in Perm in December 2008.
On 9 November the public will see the opera A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Tchaikovsky and Anton Rubinstein’s Christus on 10 November.
The composer Alexander Tchaikovsky follows Alexander Solzhenitsyn and in a lapidary though forceful way manages to convey the unbearable atmosphere of the camp life, where the main character manages to survive and stay a human being. All the text fitted in two acts. The performers wearing hardened wrappers and ear-flapped hats sing the text of Solzhenitsyn’s lines. However simple it is, the scene is a most impressive one. The production received its premiere at the Perm Theatre in May 2009. It was nominated for the highest Russian National Theatre premium Golden Mask in seven categories and got the prize in the category “The Best Conductor in Opera.”
Seven scenes of the Anton Rubinstein’s sacred opera Christus are the seven major episodes of the New Testament: the Birth of Jesus Christ and the Adoration of the Magi, the Sermon on the Mount, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Annunciation, the Temptation of Christ in the Desert, the Last Supper, and Pilate’s Judgment. The history of the opera is almost a detective story. Rubinstein composed the opera for a German theatre and it received a single performance in Leipzig in 1894. The composer hoped to present the opera in Russia but never managed to — he died in half a year after the opera had been premiered. Rubinstein’s great-grandson Anton Sharoyev found the score of the opera in a library in Berlin and the opera received its Russian premiere in Perm in December 2008.
