“Among Rimsky-Korsakov's operas, this one is the most popular, it is performed more often than others,” says Valery Platonov, chief conductor of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre. “The Tsar's Bride is very fond of singers, because the soloists here have the opportunity to show not only their vocal talent, but also their dramatic talent.” Indeed, the opera has everything to keep the audience
Together with the chief conductor and chief director of the Perm Opera, another co-author worked on Don Juan - the Latvian artist Monika Pormale, with whom Gatsalov made his debut on the musical stage three years ago, staging Salome by Richard Strauss at the Mariinsky Theater. Pormale turns the stage of the Permian theater into a museum hall (gray walls, glass ceiling, high openings on the sides), where a hit parade of contemporary art objects unfolds: they all move around the stage on a small platform, if you look from the hall - from the right backstage to left. And everyone, in one way or another, comments on the main "exhibit", which is almost invisible, but always heard - Mozart's opera itself, perfectly played (on gut strings and modern wind instruments) and sung under the baton of maestro Abashev.
