On 26 February at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be a concert performance of Ivan Dzerzhinsky’s opera Quiet Flows the Don. The roles are being rehearsed by soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers under the direction of Larisa Gergieva. Vladislav Karklin will be conducting.
The premiere of Quiet Flows the Don, written after motifs of the epic novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, took place in Leningrad in 1935 when Sholokhov had not yet written the final chapters of the novel. The composer Ivan Dzerzhinsky and the librettist Leonid Dzerzhinsky invented their own finale in which Grigory switches sides to the Bolsheviks – and, as it subsequently transpired, they had not grasped the writer’s original idea. Dzerzhinsky’s work entered the repertoires of many musical theatres in the USSR, among them the Mariinsky Theatre (then known as the Kirov). In 1967 Dzerzhinsky composed the second part of Quiet Flows the Don – Grigory Melekhov in which he again turned to this character’s destiny.
The idea of reviving works by Soviet composers that were once popular at the Concert Hall belongs to Larisa Gergieva, Artistic Director of the Academy. Quiet Flows the Don will be the fourth concert of the subscription Not Love Alone alongside the operas The Taming of the Shrew by Vissarion Shebalin, Colas Breugnon by Dmitry Kabalevsky and The Dawns Here Are Quiet by Kirill Molchanov which have already been performed.
The on-line broadcast of the concert performance of the opera Quiet Flows the Don will be available on the website www.mariinsky.tv.
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