Varvara Solovyova will be making her debut as Lyubava in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Sadko at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Like much of Rimsky-Korsakov’s artistic legacy, the opera-bylina Sadko is a work that is semi-fairytale and pure fantasy and yet, at the same time, it is a story that depicts musical tableaux of full-blooded and actual life in Veliky Novgorod. Renowned musicologist John Allison wrote of the Mariinsky Theatre’s version that “Alexei Stepanyuk’s production is as faithful as it is possible to be. But its authenticity does not make it a museum exhibit, quite the reverse – each of the opera’s seven scenes is filled with true theatrical life”. (The Times)
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