Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Larisa Gergieva

Mise en scène

Alexei Stepanuyk

Costumes

Maria Chernoglazova

Lumières

Valentin Baikov

Video

Ivan Smirnov

Direction de choeur

Rustam Sagdiev

Chorégraphie

Ilya Ustiantsev

Mariinsky Theatre

Murych the cat

Saint-Pétersbourg

Russie

Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater

Public

Valide

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, Du (2022/2022), Dirigé par Alexei Stepanuyk, Ilya Ustiantsev,, Chef d'orchestre Larisa Gergieva, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie

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