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Opera Collection, page 16

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F.Farkas - Platzkonzert - J.Strauss - Dei Listigen Studenten

 F.Farkas - Platzkonzert - J.Strauss - Dei Listigen Studenten
ID: VLD139
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Opera Collection

Farkas: The Sly Students

The Sly Students was premiered in 1949 and is a typical tale. The Professor of the local college intends his daughter to marry the son of the town treasurer and the ballet depicts the story as it unfolds.

Strauss, J, II: Promenade Concert

Ballet & Orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera, Tamas Pal & Gideon Frater, conductor

Region Code: 0, Plays in all territories, NTSC
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) 4:3
Sound Format: Dolby Digaital
Time: 75 min.
29.00 eur Buy

G. Puccini - Tosca - directed by Enrico Castiglione

G. Puccini - Tosca - directed by Enrico Castiglione
ID: VLEA096
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Documentary

Francesca Patane, Jose Cura and Renato Bruson
Orchester der Bari and the Chor des Teatro Petruzzelli, Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor

Live performance

Region Code: 0, Plays in all territories
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) Format: 5:1, Digital Betacam
Sound Format: Dolby Digaital Surround, Stereo
Time: 123 min.
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Shostakovich - Operas: The Nose - The Gamblers, Op. 63 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Shostakovich - Operas:  The Nose - The Gamblers, Op. 63 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
ID: MELCD1001192
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra

Recorded in Moscow in 1975

The short “The Gamblers” which was left unfinished in a piano score, is performed here in a version completed by the conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

“The Nose” was first performed in 1930 and once again the composer was lambasted for being pretentious and artificial. In recent years “The Nose” has enjoyed a reassessment in revivals in opera houses around the world.

Orchestra and Chorus of the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
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G. Verdi - Attila (DVD)

G. Verdi - Attila  (DVD)
ID: VLRT057
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Opera Collection

Samuel Ramey (Attila), Giorgio Zancanaro (Ezio), Cheryl Studer (Odabella), Kaludi Kaludov (Foresto), Ernesto Gavazzi (Uldiino), Mario Luperi (Leone)

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
Regie: Jerome Savary
This lesser-known opera has a prologue and three acts and is based on the play Attila, King of the Huns by Werner
It was premiered in La Fenice in Venice in 1846
This DVD is a joint production with La Scala and RAI
Recorded live at La Scala in 1991

Region Code: 0, Plays in all territories
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) Format: 4:3
Sound Format: Dolby Digaital
Time: 119 min.
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Sergei Prokofiev - The Story of a Real Man

Sergei Prokofiev - The Story of a Real Man
ID: MELCD1002353
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera

Firma Melodiya presents a unique recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s last opera The Story of a Real Man.
This work is arguably the least known one in Prokofiev’s musical theatre legacy. Finished in 1948, it was never staged in the composer’s lifetime (its “private” performance led to banning the opera and accusing the composer of formalism). Only many years later it saw spotlights, but none of the production lasted long.
The opera, so uncommon in terms of plotline and musical drama, seemed incredible even for an innovator like Prokofiev. The composer who had brought to the stage the characters of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Bryusov was carried away with Boris Polevoy’s novel about pilot Alexei Meresiev (he lost his legs as a result of a severe injury, but at the cost of unbelievable efforts and exercising he returned to the battle ranks). The main character is shown crawling from a shot down plane, in a hospital ward and mastering his artificial limbs at hospital. The character of Alexei, a winner in his own life drama, a man of enormous fortitude who did something seemingly impossible, was an incentive for the composer’s creative imagination.
The dramatic concept of the opera is built on a frame-like sequence of short scenes set off with moving lyrical episodes. The musical language of the opera predominantly consists of declamation and recitative and is full of songful intonations.
The only recording of The Story of a Real Man that now exists was made by the company of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1961 and conducted by young maestro Mark Ermler. The character of Alexei Meresiev became one of the highest achievements of prominent singer Evgeny Kibkalo. The recording also features other celebrated soloists of the theatre such as Glafira Deomidova, Margarita Miglau, Kira Leonova, Alexei Maslennikov, Mark Reshetin and Artur Eisen.


Sergei Prokofiev
The Story of a Real Man
An opera in 3 acts after Boris Polevoy’s novel of the same name
Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva

Characters and performers:
Alexei - Evgeny Kibkalo
Olga - Glafira Deomidova
Grandpa Mikhailo - Georgy Shulpin
Vasilisa - Vera Smirnova
Varya - Margarita Miglau
Petrovna - Antonina Ivanova
Seryonka - Alexander Suzanov
Fedya - Vladimir Kurguzov
Andrei - Georgy Pankov
Senior Doctor - Vladimir Petrov
Zinochka -Maria Zvezdina
Colonel - Valery Yaroslavtsev
Vasily Vasilievich - Mark Reshetin
Commissar - Artur Eisen
Klavdiya - Kira Leonova
Alexei’s Mother - Valentina Petrova
1st Surgeon - Leonid Maslov
2nd Surgeon - Nikolai Zakharov
Gvozdev - Vitaly Vlasov
Kukushkin - Alexei Maslennikov
Choir and orchestra of the USSRState Academic Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1961.
CD 1
Introduction
Act I
Total time: 39.19
CD 2
Act II
Act III
Total time: 73.10
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Giacomo Puccini - Tosca - Opera in three acts

Giacomo Puccini - Tosca - Opera in three acts
ID: MELCD1002359
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera

Opera in three acts - Libretto by Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa


One of the most popular operas of the world repertoire, Tosca was finished in the last year of the 19th century. It was based on the French playwright Victorien Sardou’s drama written for Sarah Bernhardt. The premiere of the opera that took place in 1900 in Rome was not accepted with much enthusiasm, and only the performance at La Scala under Arturo Toscanini became a true triumph. The story of singer Floria Tosca and her beloved painter Mario Cavaradossi who fell victim to bloody despot Baron Scarpia on the background of the revolutionary events in Italy of the early 19th century is still able to move to the innermost of one’s heart as the heat of dramatic fervour is masterfully captured in the music. Numerous audio and video recordings of the opera featuring the world’s best singers and conductors were made in the previous century.
This recording was realized by the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1974. The celebrated internationally recognized soloists of the opera company of the 1970s Tamara Milashkina, Vladimir Atlantov, Yuri Mazurok and others perform the opera in the original language under the prominent conductor Mark Ermler.


Characters and performers:
Floria Tosca, a celebrated singer -Tamara Milashkina, soprano
Mario Cavaradossi, a painter -Vladimir Atlantov, tenor
Baron Scarpia, chief of police -Yuri Mazurok, baritone
Cesare Angelotti, former Consul of the Roman Republic - Valeri Yaroslavtsev, bass
Sacristan - Vitali Nartov, baritone
Spoletta, a police agent - Andrei Sokolov, tenor
Sciarrone, another agent - Vladimir Filippov, bass
A Jailer - Мikhail Shkaptsov, bass
A Shepherd boy - Alexander Pavlov, alto
Cardinal, scribe, soldiers, police agents, altar boys, noblemen and women, townsfolk, artisans

Choir and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre - Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1974.
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P.I.Tchaikovsky - The Voyevoda, Opera in 3 acts - Vladimir Kozhukhar, conductor

P.I.Tchaikovsky - The Voyevoda, Opera in 3 acts - Vladimir Kozhukhar, conductor
ID: MELCD1001869
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

The Voyevoda was Tchaikovsky’s first opera and was based on the comedy A Dream on the Volga, Scenes from Popular Life of the 17th Century by Ostrovsky. It was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1869 and was very well received. The Russian musicologist Odoyovsky wrote “This opera guarantees a great future for Tchaikovsky.” This performance was recorded in 1982.



Vladimir Matorin (Nechal Shalygin), Leoid Zimenko (Vlas Dyuzhol), Alexandra Fatkina (Nastasya), Galina Guznetsova (Maria Vlasyevna), Lyudmila Bondarenko (Praskovya Vlasyevna), Nina Isakova (Nedviga), Anatoly Mishchevsky (Bastryukov), Yu. Abakumovskaya (Olena), Oleg Klenov (Dubrovnin), Vyacheslav Voinarowski (Jester), Vladimir Svistov (New Voyevoda/Rezvy)
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N. Rimsky-Korsakov - The Tsar's Bride, Opera in Four acts - Fuat Mansurov, conductor

N. Rimsky-Korsakov - The Tsar's Bride, Opera in Four acts - Fuat Mansurov, conductor
ID: MELCD1001876
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

In 1849, the translator, poet and playwright Lev Mey (1822-1862) wrote a drama The Tsar’s Bride based on one of the passages from the era of Ivan the Terrible’s reign. In 1868, Mily Balakirev drew Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s attention to Mey’s work. However, the composer set to creating an opera based on the plot of The Tsar’s Bride only thirty years later. He began his work in February 1898 and completed it in ten months. Almost without changing Mey’s plot, Rimsky-Korsakov enhanced the dramatic qualities of The Tsar’s Bride with his musical means. The opera was premiered in the autumn of 1899 at a Moscow theatre of the industrialist and patron Savva Mamontov with Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov being the conductor. The Tsar’s Bride, a sample of realistic drama, is one of the most popular works for musical theatre at the present time. The performance of 1973 presented on these CDs brought together great artists of Russian stage - Evgeny Nesterenko, Galina Vishnevskaya, Vladimir Atlantov, Irina Arkhipova and others.
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A. Dargomyzhsky - Rusalka,(Mermaid) Opera in 4 Acts

A. Dargomyzhsky - Rusalka,(Mermaid) Opera in 4 Acts
ID: MELCD1001775
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera

The Prince - Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor
The Princess - Veronika Borisenko, mezzo-soprano
The Miller - Alexei Krivchenya, bass
Natasha, his daughter, later a Rusalka - Evgenia Smolenskaya, soprano
Olga - Margarita Miglau, soprano
Matchmaker - Ivan Skobtsov, baritone
Little Rusalka, 12 years old non singing - Vera Tumanova
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S. Prokofiev - Betrothal in a Monastery - Lyrico-comical opera in 4 acts

S. Prokofiev - Betrothal in a Monastery - Lyrico-comical opera in 4 acts
ID: MELCD1001849
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

The opera Betrothal in a Monastery (The Duenna) takes a special place not only in Prokofiev's career, but also in the history of Russian Soviet music theatre. It is the first lyrical and comic opera. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy fascinated Prokofiev at once. Having read the play, Prokofiev exclaimed, "This is champagne! It can make an opera à la Mozart or Rossini." The composer immediately started writing the libretto using the English original and translating it into Russian. Prokofiev's wife Mira Mendelson was an author of the rhymed verse. Prokofiev composed the music within a shortest period of time - during the summer and early autumn of 1940. The premiere of the opera was expected at the Stanislavsky Musical Theatre in summer of 1941, but World War II did not let it happen. The first performance took place as late as in November of 1946, at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad and received acclaim of critics and audience alike. The opera performed by the soloists, choir and orchestra of the State Musical Theatre of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko conducted by Kamil Abdullayev was recorded by Firma Melodiya in 1963 and awarded an André Messager prize of Academy of Lyric Recordings of France in 1967.

Valentina Kayevchenko (Luisa)
Nina Isakova (Clara)
Tamara Yanko (Duenna)
Anatoly Mishchevsky (Antonio)
Nikolai Korshunov (Don Jerome)
Jan Kratov (Ferdinand)
Eduard Bulavin (Mendoza)
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