Name: Murych the cat
Start: 2022-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater

Organization

Conductor

Larisa Gergieva

Stage director

Alexei Stepanuyk

Costume designer

Maria Chernoglazova

Lighting designer

Valentin Baikov

Video designer

Ivan Smirnov

Chorus master

Rustam Sagdiev

Choreographer

Ilya Ustiantsev

Mariinsky Theatre

Murych the cat

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater

Public

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Set designer

Dancer

Actor

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Baritone

Singer

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Soprano

Tenor

Mezzo-soprano

Countertenor

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Sergei Banevich (1941–) is rightly acclaimed as a classic of children's music. The key to the composer's success may be seen perfectly through his own words: "As a professional musician I am convinced that classical music, indeed any music in general, makes a young person pull him – or herself together and look at him – or herself, because a child has a huge, interesting and spiritual world that is of no less importance than the spiritual world of an adult. True music can awaken that world."

Banevich's work is linked not just with music education (he has founded international children's music festivals in St Petersburg), but also with attracting children to musical theatre. For young audiences he began to compose at the very start of his creative career. "To write operas and operettas for children, based on contemporary intonations. And at the same time to use the experience of Sergei Prokofiev, but to combine its achievements with the music of modern life, taking the best it has to offer," is how the composer describes the task he faces.

Several generations have grown up with Banevich's music. The composer has an excellent understanding of the ways that young children perceive things and has an ability to compose accessible yet professional music for them. His works include the operas The Little Town in the Snuff-Box, Twelve Months, Ferdinand the Magnificent, How We Switched on the Night and the ballets The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and Bambi to name but a few. Murych the Cat (2017) is Banevich's fifth opera for the Mariinsky Theatre. The story about the resourceful and somewhat boastful cat Murych, who celebrates his birthday with his family and friends, is targeted at the youngest audiences and finds a keen response from both children and their parents.
Olga Vokina

English

Murych the cat by Banevich, From (2022/2022), Directed by Alexei Stepanuyk, Ilya Ustiantsev,, Conductor Larisa Gergieva, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Crew

Programme, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

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