Organization

Stage director

Oleg Ilin

Conductor

Valery Kritskov

Costume designer

Tatiana Tulubeva

Igor Nezhny

Set designer

Singer

Tenor

Mikhail Seryshev

Erzähler

Bass

Sergei Toptigin

Vater Schlendrian

Soprano

Elena Semenova

Lieschen

Mikhail Egiazaryan

Clavecin

Helikon Opera

Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211 -  (Be still, stop chattering, BWV 211)

Moscow

Russia

Helikon in Nikitskaya

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Be still, stop chattering, BWV 211

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«Кофейная Кантата» И. С. Баха в «Геликон-опере»

Music and coffee lovers perfectly remember those fragrant coffee performances in the Opera cafe of  "Helikon". This season the theatre once again invites spectators into the Princess Shakhovskaya Hall for a cup of coffee at the famous "Kaffeekantate". After all, this is the purpose the cantata was written for. This was literally the first commercial of the invigorating drink...

The great maestro Johann Sebastian Bach made up the lovely little thing to attract visitors to the Zimmermann coffee house in Leipzig. Since then, coffee has become the favourite drink of millions of people who cannot even imagine a coffee-free life by now. Many Helikonians start their day with a cup of coffee, humming a melody from the cantata: "Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!" And later in the evening after a performance they treat the audience with a fragrant drink made during an intricate opera dialogue. We promise that you will enjoy the magic music of the great Bach and the wonderful taste of real Julius Meinl coffee!

English

Be still, stop chattering, BWV 211 by Bach, J. S., From (2021/2022), Directed by Oleg Ilin,, Conductor Valery Kritskov, Helikon in Nikitskaya, Moscow, Russia

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