Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Cantante

Bajo

Dmitry Ulyanov

Zar Dodón

Contralto

Margarita Nekrasova

Amelfa

Tenor

Vasily Efimov

Zarévich Guidón

Barítono

Andrey Zhilikhovsky

Zarévich Afrón

Mischa Schelomianski

Le Général Polkan

Andrei Popov

Astrólogo

Soprano

Nina Minasyan

Zarina de Shemajá

Diseñador(a) de iluminación

Franck Evin

Diseñador(a) de vestuario/Figurinista

Victoria Behr

Escenógrafo(a)

Rufus Didwiszus

Coreógrafo(a)

Otto Pichler

Dramaturgia

Olaf A Schmitt

Maria Nazarova

El gallo de oro

Director(a) de escena

Barrie Kosky

Director(a) orquestal

Daniele Rustioni

Actor/actriz

Wilfried Gonon

Komische Oper Berlin

Opéra de Lyon

Others

Lyon Opera Choirs

Orchestra

Lyon Opera Orchestra

ruso

Le Coq d'or -  (El gallo de oro)

Aix-en-Provence

Francia

Théâtre de l'Archevêché

The Golden Cockerel is a satirical blend of Rimsky-Korsakov’s work and a century of Russian opera. The composer uses more outlandish elements of Pushkin’s story to create multiple comic situations, with nods and winks to Russian culture. By showing Dodon as a Don Quixote-like figure, suffering from oblomovism, Rimsky-Korsakov is mocking the Tsars. And by developing the Oriental theme – much more than Pushkin does – he is not just using the music to enhance the mysterious oriental princess’s powers of seduction: he is also introducing some echoes of the Russo-Japanese war and the beginnings of the Revolution. Unsurprisingly the Tsar of the time, Nicholas II, largely censored the work and Rimsky-Korsakov therefore never saw his final masterpiece performed. Australian director Barrie Kosky, who is both a Russian opera aficionado and a highly skilled stage director, can be trusted to bring all its symbolism and comic energy to the fore.

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