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BELLINI
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Roberto, Tagliavini, Farcas
I Puritani
D'Angelo, Salderi, Ferrin,
Dondi
Norma
Vickers & Caballé
Norma
Sutherland, Troyanos
Norma
Dragoni, Zampieri
Norma
Dessi, Armiliato

Norma, Act 1
Caballe, others
La Sonnambula
Moffo, others

BIZET
Carmen
Franco Corelli
Carmen
Bonfitto, Taruntsov

BORODIN
Prince Igor
Nesterenko

CHERUBINI
Medea

Mazzola-Gavazzeni
Medea
Anna Caterina Antonacci

CILÈA
Adriana Lecouvreur
Caballé, Cossotto

DARGOMYZHSKY
The Stone Guest
Atlantov, Milashkina, Vedernikov,
others


DEBUSSY
Pelléas et Mélisande (Act 2)
Danco, Jeannotte, Savoie


DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena
Sutherland
Daughter of the Regiment
Sills
Don Pasquale
Tajo,
Bruscantini, Valletti
La Favorita
Cossotto, Kraus
L'Elisir d'Amore

Scotto, Bergonzi
L'Elisir d'Amore
Tagliavini, Noni
Lucia di Lammermoor
Scotto, Bergonzi
Lucia di Lammermoor

Moffo, Kozma
Lucia di Lammermoor
Kraus, Serra
Marin Faliero
Pertusi, Servile, Blake

Roberto Devereux

Sills
Il Campanello
Torriani, Miotto, Ito, Dekita
Rita, ou Le Mari Battu
Quagliata, Giacchetta,
Torriani;

GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Mikado
D’Oyly Carte

GIORDANO
Andrea Chénier
Franco Corelli
Andrea Chénier
Tebaldi, Del Monaco

GLUCK
Orphée et Eurydice
Simoneau, Alarie

GOUNOD
Faust
Kraus, Ghiuselev
Faust
Scotto, Ghiaurov
Mireille (abridged)
Alarie, Simoneau, Savoie

HERBERT
Naughty Marietta
Munsel, Drake

LEONCAVALLO
I Pagliacci
Vickers
I Pagliacci
Corelli
I Pagliacci
Del Monaco, Tucci
I Pagliacci
Domingo,
Mauti-Nunziata

LOMBARDO

Cin Ci La'

MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
Simionato, Lo Forese
Cavalleria Rusticana
Verrett,
Johannsson
Cavalleria Rusticana
Domingo,
Cossotto

MENOTTI
Amahl & The Night Visitors
Kuhlmann, McIver
The Consul

Patricia Neway
The Medium
Powers, Alberghetti
The Medium
Forrester
The Telephone
Farley, Smythe

MOZART
Don Giovanni
Petri, Stich-Randall,
Gencer, Sciutti, Alva,
Brucsantini
Cosi fan Tutti
Curtin
(Scenes from Act 1)
The Impresario
Steber, Curtin, others
Le Nozze di Figaro
Rehfuss, Probbe,
Rossi-Lemeni, Carteri
Le Nozze di Figaro
Sciutti, Güden, Evans, Lear
Fischer-Dieskau
Die Zauberflöte
Berry, Lorengar, Kmentt,
Peters
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Hallstein, Grist, Alva,
Corena, Unger

MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov
Piragov (1954 film)

OFFENBACH
Les Contes D’Hoffmann
Kraus, Welting,
Hendricks, Ghiuselev


PORTER, COLE
Kiss Me, Kate
Drake, Morison


POULENC
La Voix Humaine
Farley

PUCCINI

Madama Butterfly
Moffo
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Tebaldi, London
Tosca
Olivero
Tosca
Corelli, Duval, Poli
Tosca
Corelli, Heredia Capnist
Turandot
Corelli
La Rondine
Carteri, Gismondo
La Fanciulla del West
Stella, Limarilli, Colzani
M
anon Lescaut
Chiara,
Romero, Martinucci
Il Trittico: Il Tabarro,
Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi

Pons, Frittoli, Lipovsek, Leo Nucci

RACHMANINOFF
Aleko
Nesterenko

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
May Night
Stanislavsky and
Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow Academic Music Theatre
Sadko
Atlantov, Milashkina, Arkhipova.
Orch. and Chorus: Bolshoi Theatre
The Golden Cockerel
Gondjian, Kubelian, Shakhverdian,
Chakhoyan, Martirosian, others.
The Tsar's Bride
Vedernikov, Kovaleva, Grigoriev,
others.
Mozart and Salieri
Maslennikov, Eizen, L. Novikov
Kashchey The Immortal
Pluzhnikov

ROMBERG
The Desert Song
Eddy, Sherwood

ROSSINI

Elisabetta, Regina D'Inghilterra
Lella Cuberli
L'Italiana in Algeri
Petri, Palombini
Tancredi
Barcellona, Workman,
Cantarero
L'Equivoco Stravagante
Teatro Comunale
di Modena (2001)
Barber of Seville
Bonitatibus, Giménez,
Nucci

SHOSTAKOVICH

The Nose

STRAUSS, JOHANN
The Great Waltz
Munsel, Novotna

STRAUSS, RICHARD
Ariadne auf Naxos
Sills

TCHAIKOVSKY
Iolanta
Eisen, Kuznetsov

TOBIAS
Jonah’s Mission

VERDI

Aida
Bergonzi, Cossotto
Aida
Tucci, Del Monaco

Aida
Gencer, Bergonzi
Don Carlo
Furlanetto, Neill, Jenis
Don Carlo
Caballé, Bumbry,
Aragall
Falstaff
Taddei, Moffo
Il Trovatore
Del Monaco, Gencer
Il Trovatore
Nucci, Theodossiou
La Forza del Destino

Tebaldi, Corelli

La Traviata
Moffo
La Traviata
Sills
La Traviata
Scotto,
Carreras
Otello
Del Monaco, Carteri
Otello
Del Monaco, Tucci
Rigoletto
Kraus, Nucci
Rigoletto
Protti, Tucci, Poggi
Simon Boccanegra
Cappuccilli, Ricciarelli,
Ghiaurov, Merighi
Un Ballo in Maschera
Bergonzi, Stella, Zanasi
La Forza del Destino
Caballé, Carreras,
Ghiaurov

WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
extended scenes
Vickers, Knie

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May Night (Rimsky-Korsakov)
VAI DVD 4510 $39.95

Rimsky-Korsakov lavished a gorgeous score on this rustic tale of love and the supernatural. This acclaimed 2008 production by the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre marks the opera’s first appearance on DVD. The company’s brilliant staging is modern in its dramatic intensity yet firmly rooted in the traditional heart of the work. 120 minutes, Color, mono, subtitles in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Romanized Russian, All regions.

May Night
Opera in Three Acts
Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Libretto by the composer after the story by Nikolai Gogol

Mayor: Dmitry Ulyanov
Levko: Oleg Polpudin
Hannah: Natalia Vladimirskaya
Mayor’s Sister-in-Law: Irina Chistyakova
Clerk: Roman Ulybin
Distiller: Vyacheslav Voynarovsky
Kalenik: Anatoly Loshak
Pannochka: Valeria Zaytseva
First Mermaid: Maria Lobanova
Second Mermaid: Maria Suvorova
Third Mermaid: Ella Feyginova

Orchestra, Chorus, Soloists, Dancers and Actors of the
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow Academic Music Theatre

Felix Korobov, conductor

Stage Director: Alexander Titel

Set Design and Costumes: Vladimir Arefiev

Live performance, taped March 9, 2008

Assistant directors: Valentina Kaevchenko,
Irina Lychagina, Ilya Mozhaysky
Video Montage for Prelude by Marina Dobrovolskaya
Lighting Design: Ildar Bederdinov
Principal Chorus Master: Stanislav Lykov
Chorus Masters: Alexander Rybnov, Alexander Toplov
Concertmasters: Evgenia Arefieva, Ekaterina Dmitrieva, Tatiana Lobyreva, Galina Mikheeva, Irina Orzhekhovskaya, Eva Petrishcheva, Anna Rakhman
Stage Managers: Natalia Zhukova, Yulia Lutsenko, Tatiana Pochapskaya
Opera Company Artistic Director: Alexander Titel
General Manager: Vladimir Urin

Subtitle translations by: Cesar Dillon, Ved Khatter
Cover and on-screen menu photos by © Oleg Chernous

Program © 2008 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow Academic Music Theatre
Creative Content © 2010 Video Artists International, Inc.
All Rights Reserved

May Night (1880), Rimsky-Korsakov’s second opera, for which he also provided the libretto, was notable for the composer’s embrace of the folk idiom and his move away from his more academic work. As one critic noted, with May Night the composer” threw off the shackles of counterpoint.” Using no less than eight tunes from a folk song collection, Rimsky-Korsakov fashioned an opera that accentuates the bucolic with a cast of carousing villagers but also visits the nether world with those drowned spectral maidens known as the rusalki.

At its heart, May Night is a comic opera, despite the presence of a troublesome witch and those sad drowned maidens. The music is energetic and colorful and the libretto sticks very close to the Gogol short story that inspired it. The opera’s fantastic elements are a foretaste of what Rimsky-Korsakov would provide in such works as Sadko, The Tale of Tsar Sultan and The Golden Cockerel. Yet, the opera’s central theme is young love, initially challenged but ultimately prevailing.

The opera’s premiere had a mixed reception though subsequent performances were more successful. For collectors of opera trivia, it might be noted that in the first performance of May Night at the Mariinsky Theatre the role of the Village Mayor was sung by Fyodor Stravinsky, father of Igor Stravinsky.

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (www.stanmus.com) draws its history from 1919, when the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko's Music Theatre were organized. The company is famous for its fresh and vital productions of both classic and contemporary operas. This release of the company's acclaimed 2008 production of May Night marks the opera’s first issue on DVD.

 

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