29.01.2012

Performances of the XXX International opera festival named after F.I.Shalyapin: «Lucia di Lammermoor»

One of the key performances of the XXX International festival named after Shalyapin in Kazan will be «Lucia di Lammermoor» - an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The performance is set for February 7, 2012.

 Premiered in September, 2010, this play is a brainchild of a stage director Mikhail Pandzhavidze, art director Igor Grinevich and conductor Renat Salavatov. The plot of this opera is based on a novel « The Bride of Lammermoor» by Walter Scott.

Conflicts of the novel - confrontation of love and duty, honour and betrayal – are all interpreted «in the spirit of the times». The main character of the opera, Hanry Ashton is not a scottish aristocrat, but a modern businessman. His surroundings are impassive office workers, leggy pretty girls, brutal members of the criminal world. Action of the play developing in a usual for audience environment of modern city.

Like a snowdrop amongst heap of a warped metal, love of Lucia and Edgar is sprouting up in this world. But their feelings are doomed for death. Alas, love and devotion are not capable of resisting cynicism of our world, seized by desire of enrichment.

«Lucia di Lammermoor» is a great artistic success of the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Jalil. The opera was nominated for Russia`s National theatrical prize «Golden mask - 2012» (in categories «Best performance», «Best stage director`s work», «Best artistic work», «Best actress»).  The staging got lively interest of the audience and that is because «Lucia» is a work of a rare quality, the performance capable of surprising experienced music lovers and intriguing a capital's cultural life`s newcomers.

The main roles on February 7 will perform:

Lucia - Olga Pudova, soloist of Mariinsky Theatre
Edgar - Genghis Ayusheev, soloist of Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre
Genry - Stanislav Trifonov, soloist of Byelorussian Bolshoi theatre
Raymond - Sergey Kovnir,  soloist of National Ukrainian Opera
Conductor - Renat Salavatov