Opera «Orango». Ballet «Hypothetically Murdered»
Description
Age category: 16+
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Unfinished opera buffa
Libretto by Alexey Tolstoy and Alexander Starchakov
Instrumentation by Gerard McBurney
Sets are created according to theatrical sketches of Alexandra Exter
The prologue to the opera was written in 1932. The world premiere was performed in Perm in 2015. Running time: 35 minutes
The operaOrango, which was for many years considered lost (or rather, its prologue was), was discovered in the archives of the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture in 2004.
Shostakovich started working on Orango (from orangutan), which is set in the Soviet Union, in 1932 when the whole of the science and art worlds were seized by the idea of creating a super-being, an experimental half human, half animal.
directors
Musical Director and Conductor:
Teodor Currentzis
Choreographer and Stage Director:
Alexey Miroshnichenko
Chorus Master:
Vitaly Polonsky
Costume Designer:
Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer:
Alexey Khoroshev
Set Designer:
Andrey Voitenko
Age category: 16+
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
One-act ballet in six scenes
Libretto by Alexey Miroshnichenko
Instrumentation by Gerard McBurney
Decorations are created according to theatrical sketches of Alexandra Exter
The music was written in 1931. World premiere of the ballet was performed in Perm in 2015. Running time: 1 hour
Hypothetically Murdered was performed only once in Russia in 1931 in the Leningrad Music Hall in the form of a variety revue including Leonid Utyosov and Klavdiya Shulzhenko. Abroad, the first theatrical presentation of this opera only took place in 2013, at the Lucerne Festival under the name of Der Fall YY.
The choreographer Alexey Miroshnichenko has re-written the libretto of the phantasmagoria Hypothetically Murdered, preserving the names of the main characters. In his ballet the leading role is given to the ice-cream vendor Mashenka Funtikova and not her sweetheart Stopka Kurochkin. Together they fall into the zone of a training air-raid, where Mashenka becomes the target of the head of operations Beyburzhuyev. To recreate the aesthetics of the 1920s and 1930s, the stage directors, Andrei Voytenko and Tatyana Noginova, looked at theatrical sketches of one of the proponents of constructivism, Alexandra Exter.
directors
Musical Director and Conductor:
Teodor Currentzis
Choreographer, Author of Libretto and Musical Version:
Alexey Miroshnichenko
Costume Designer:
Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer:
Alexey Khoroshev
Set Designer:
Andrey Voitenko
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lecture
One hour before the official start guests who bought a ticket can attend a lecture about the upcoming event. Host — Anna Fefelova, a musicologist. The lecture is hosted in Russian.
Video
Photo
lecture
One hour before the official start guests who bought a ticket can attend a lecture about the upcoming event. Host — Anna Fefelova, a musicologist. The lecture is hosted in Russian.
