Organization

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Tatyana Karpacheva

Stage director (+2)

Darya Modzalevskaya

Natalya Chernikova

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Maxim Valkov

Alexander Goikhman

Lighting designer

Irina Vtornikova

Costume designer

Set designer (+6)

Vyacheslav Okunev

Set designer

Video

Victoria Zlotnikova

Choreographer

Choreographer (+2)

Nadezhda Kalinina

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

Igor Pototskiy

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Natalya Vorobyeva

Varvara Vasilievna

Baritone (+6)

Leonty Salienski

Volodya Gavrilov

Soprano (+1)

Evgenya Kravchenko

Natasha

Bass (+1)

Evgenij Bayev

Ivan Trofimov

Tenor

Evgeny Nagovitsyn

Mishka

Tenor (+2)

Vsevolod Kalmykov

Grishka

Bass (+5)

Anton Morozov

Fedot Petrovich

St Petersburg Chamber Opera

Baron Fon Derviz Mansion (St Petersburg Chamber Opera)

The St. Petersburg premiere of “Not Only Love” by the famous composer Rodion Shchedrin was a landmark event. The composer himself described it as the best performance of his opera.
“Not Only Love” is a bright, sparkling performance that is close to the musical in its genre. The main focus of the performance, as director Yuri Alexandrov sees it, is love, of course. “The theme of love” , the director says, “is eternal and always relevant, no matter in what scenery it takes place.”
The performance attracts the audience with its free vocal, the “openness” of acting and lots of dancing. It is full of light lyricism and irony, that “juicy” humour typical for this genre and high drama. In its plot some experienced music lovers will recognize parallels with “Eugene Onegin” and even “Carmen.” 
Rodion Shchedrin, who saw the premiere in the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera, recalled the devastating 1961 performance. “Do you know why the show failed then? Because they were afraid of sex. And here today they are not. And it worked out. Personally, I can see on the stage a huge amount of love for those times and those people.”

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