Name: Aleko
Start: 2022-03-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Buryat Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Organization

Baritone

Munkhzul Namkhai

Aleko

Tenor

Chingis Ivanov

The young gypsy

Contralto

Erzhena Bazarsadaeva

The old gypsy woman

Conductor

Vladimir Rylov

Stage director

Dina Orlova

Buryat Academic Opera and Ballet Theater

Ulan-Ude

Russia

Buryat Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Aleko Rakhmaninov

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

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

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

Singer

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Bass-baritone

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

The one-act opera Aleko is Rachmaninov's early, still student masterpiece, created in record time - in just 17 days. At the heart of its plot is not just love and jealousy, but the clash of civilizations, so familiar to the man of the 21st century.  

Who would have guessed that the graduation essay of a nineteen-year-old conservatory graduate would be performed for several centuries? However, the debutant's librettist turned out to be Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, who was inspired by Pushkin's eternal lines. Thanks to these names, too, Aleko entered the history of world opera on an equal footing with the works of recognized masters from the very premiere.

The opera was successfully premiered on April 27, 1893 at the Bolshoi Theatre. In articles devoted to the premiere of Aleko, one can even read that Pyotr Tchaikovsky himself applauded so much that he almost fell out of the box. Most likely, this is a joke, but the opera really attracted P.I. Tchaikovsky, who contributed to its production and even asked the young composer for permission to give "Aleko" along with his own one-act opera "Iolanta". The second premiere of Aleko took place on October 18, 1893 in Kiev, where Rachmaninov himself performed for the first time as a conductor.

Rachmaninov's friend F. I. Chaliapin was an outstanding performer of the part of Aleko. A strange episode is connected with his first performance in this role. The production was timed to coincide with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of A. S. Pushkin, and to perform the part of Aleko, Chaliapin put on make-up ... by Pushkin himself: he really saw a certain similarity between A. S. Pushkin and Aleko.

Aleko first appeared in the repertoire of the Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in 1958. Director A. Kimov from the very beginning saw Vladimir Manketov as the performer of the main part. Shortly before that, the young singer played the role of a young Buryat Tumen in the musical comedy The Horseman's Song, filmed by Mosfilm in 1957. In the course of the film, Vladimir, who came from Buryatia to Moscow to study the art of singing, sings Aleko's cavatina. This episode was especially successful for V. Manketov, the audience was delighted with his velvety baritone. The singer often performed cavatina at concerts and began to intensively master the entire part of Aleko. The premiere took place in April 1958, in honor of the 85th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninov. Manketov did not deceive his expectations: Aleko's game became one of his creative pinnacles.

“I love this composition for its naivete and student freshness,” says the artistic director of the theater, People's Artist of the Republic of Buryatia V.A. Rylov.

“When working on the opera Aleko, our task was to justify each hero, to make the characters multifaceted, to show a wide range of their feelings and emotions towards each other, as they say, from love to hate…,” director Dina Orlova told about the production of Aleko in 2021 . - It was also important for us to emphasize Pushkin's "And there is no protection from the fates." And also our performance about the fact that love does not die!

English

Aleko by Rachmaninoff, Thu 10 Mar 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Dina Orlova,, Conductor Vladimir Rylov, Buryat Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ulan-Ude, Russia

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