Name: Die lustige Witwe
Start: 2024-05-07
End: 2024-05-07
Location: St Petersburg Theater of Musical Comedy

Organization

Admin

St Petersburg Theatre of Musical Comedy

Stage director

Giorgio Madia

Choreographer

Set designer

Domenico Franchi

Conductor

Dmitry Savenkov

Ekaterina Aronova

Andrey Alekseev

Costume designer

Filippo Guggia

Lighting designer

Denis Solntsev

Assistant Stage Director

Sofia Krylova

Chorus master

Evgeny Takmakov

Assistant choreographer

Ivan Dryomin

Galina Ryzhikova

Singer

Soprano

Katazhina Matskevich

Hannah Glawari

Natalia Savchenko

Karina Chepurnova

Baritone

Alexander Lenogov

Count Danilo Danilowitsch

Oleg Romashin

Alexander Bayron

Baron Mirko Zeta

Valery Matveev

Anna Bulgak

Valencienne

Anastasia Loshakova

Tenor

Fedor Osipov

Camille of Rosillon

Spoken

Oleg Fleer

Njegus

Vladimir Yakovlev

Roman Vokuev

Viscount Cascada

Anton Oleynikov

Ralph of Saint-Brioche

Vladimir Yarosh

Vasiliy Glukhov

Kromow

Alexander Krukovsky

Bogdanovitch

Mezzo-soprano

Manana Gogitidze

Praskowia

Elena Zabrodina

Elizaveta Olisova

Sylviane

Maria Reshavskaya

Olga

Alexander Shaporov

Pritschitsch

Sergey Braga

Oksana Gogina

Dmitry Petrov

Die lustige Witwe -  (The Merry Widow)

Saint Petersburg

Russia

St Petersburg Theater of Musical Comedy

Big hall

Die lustige Witwe Lehár

Public

The Merry Widow

Sharan Allad

Approved

The duel of a beautiful young widow - a woman who defends her love under the onslaught of dowry seekers, and a brilliant life-seeker who gives up positions, surrendering to sincere feeling. Five hundred million dowry widows (the entire gold reserve of her small but proud country) is a stumbling block in the way of lovers. So who will get the hand and millions of the enviable bride? ..

Having first appeared on the scene of the Leningrad Musical Comedy in 1935, "The Merry Widow" has been regularly returning to its poster for more than eighty years. And the new performance is the seventh version of this masterpiece by Franz Lehar, famous throughout the world thanks to the famous cancan (the second most popular after the cancan by J. Offenbach). By the way, in the new performance this dance had been given special attention. After all, the stage director - Giorgio Madia - in the recent past, a successful ballet dancer, and today a sought-after choreographer and creator of more than twenty opera and ballet performances in Germany, Poland and Italy.

Musical Director and Conductor of the new performance - Honored Artist of Russia Maestro Andrey Alekseev made sure that the ingenious music of Franz Legar sounded for the first time in a long time as close as possible to how it was conceived by the author. The musical score is carefully released from the borrowings used in the last years’s productions. A special highlight of the production will be the longest cancan in the history of "The Merry Widow". According to the director, he tried to follow the original libretto as closely as possible, correcting only a few moments that are not as relevant today: “The modern audience lives at a different pace. My task, as a director and choreographer, is to preserve the sensuality and elegance of the production, and at the same time make the action more dynamic. ”

In addition, the performance is very beautiful, because the decoration for it was created by the famous master of stage design solutions Domenico Franchi (Italy). He has more than 70 performances, starting with classical operas and ending with modern art installations. In his approach to work, Domenico is guided by the idea that set design and costumes are not just decoration, but an active part of the performance, which should help the viewer to feel more deeply what is happening on stage. Its task is to transfer to the Merry Widow an elusive veil of the 1900s era and the Art Nouveau Golden Age.

English

The Merry Widow by Lehár, Tue 07 May 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Giorgio Madia, Ekaterina Aronova,, Conductor Dmitry Savenkov, Andrey Alekseev, St Petersburg Theater of Musical Comedy, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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