PROGRAMME:
Igor Stravinsky
Three Russian Songs
Two Songs To Lyrics by Sergei Gorodetsky
Three Japanese Lyrics
Pastorale
Berceuses du chat
Trois petites chansons
Lullaby for Mikushka
Storm Cloud
Performers:
Isabella Andriasyn
Daria Rositskaya
Darya Tereshchenko
Klim Tikhonov
MAVRA
concert performance of opera by Igor Stravinsky
Libretto by Boris Kochno after the poem The Little House in Kolomna by Alexander Pushkin
Performed in Russian (will have synchronised Russian supertitles)
Performers:
Parasha: Anna Denisova
The Neighbour: Yekaterina Krapivina
The Mother: Darya Tereshchenko
The Hussar: Stanislav Leontiev
Narrator: Ivan Zhukov (Alexandrinsky Theatre)
Piano: Oxana Klevtsova
Mavra is an opera based on Pushkin’s the Little House in Kolomna, a bridge between Russia and Europe: the score is indeed dedicated to the memory of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Glinka and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the three leading pro-western men in 19th century Russian art. Voices from a past that is beautiful – with urban romances, gypsy songs and Italian opera in a Russian format – sound like listening to an old record. (Stravinsky had actually found the sliding musical intonations so typical of Mavra in gramophone recordings, still very imperfect in the 1920s.) One hears voices of St Petersburg’s Kolomna district where Stravinsky grew up: the church bells of the St Nicholas Naval Cathedral and the marches of the army brass bands that were based in New Holland. Bogdan Korolyok
Running time of opera 30 minutes
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