On 17 November the Mariinsky label is releasing a new disc in DVD and Blu-ray formats of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. The disc is already available to pre-order.
The recording of the opera directed by Alexander Petrov (2005 production) was made at the historic Mariinsky Theatre during the XXIII Stars of the White Nights music festival in July 2015. The lead roles were performed by Albina Shagimuratova (the Swan Princess), Mikhail Vekua (Tsarevich Guidon), Irina Churilova (Tsaritsa Militrisa), Varvara Solovyova (Tkachikha), Tatiana Kravtsova (Povarikha) and Elena Vitman (the Elderly Mother-in-Law Babarikha). The role of Tsar Saltan was performed by Eduard Tsanga, who sadly died in in January 2017.
Conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra was Valery Gergiev.
This release will be the tenth DVD of a Mariinsky Theatre video recording and it continues a series of video recordings of operas by Russian composers on the Mariinsky label. The most recent include Rodion Shchedrin's The Lefthander, Sergei Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel (DVD and Blu-ray).
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