23.03.2020

An online broadcast of the opera The Golden Cockerel on 23 March

Continuing its series of online broadcasts, the Mariinsky Theatre is pleased to announce a performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel on 23 March at 19:00 on mariinsky.tv. The video will be available to view for twenty-four hours following the start of the online broadcast.

The video recording of the opera The Golden Cockerel was made at the Mariinsky-II during the first performances of the production by Anna Matison in December 2014, released on the Mariinsky label in May 2017. It was for this release that Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Orchestra and Mariinsky Opera soloists were nominated for a Grammy award in the category "Best Opera Recording of the Year". The lead roles in the performance were sung by Vladimir Feliauer (Tsar Dodon), Aida Garifullina (the Queen of Shemakha), Andrey Serov (the Voivode Polkan), Andrei Ilyushnikov (Tsarevich Guidon), Vladislav Sulimsky (Tsarevich Afron) and Andrei Popov (the Astrologer). The conductor was Valery Gergiev.

The Golden Cockerel formed the culmination and conclusion of the artistic career of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and is the most mysterious of the composer's fifteen operas. Following the appearance of the opus in 1907, the official censor regarded it as a slur on the Emperor and the final year of the composer's life was marred by a struggle with censorship, the world premiere taking place only after his death.

The Golden Cockerel was performed for the first time at the Mariinsky Theatre only following the Russian Revolution, in 1919. The political backdrop had changed, and now the satirical element of a great power was showcased in the opera. The production of 2014, which is present in the repertoire today, was the theatre's third and the first work in the opera genre for stage director Anna Matison. She addresses her production to a family audience, but underlines the fact that each and everyone can find a meaning of his or her own in it: "For children, we have constructed a plot about a princess and adventures in a fairy-tale land, while adults may consider it a story about power within marriage."

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