Name: Not Love Alone
Start: 2023-12-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater

Organization

Admin

Mariinsky Theatre

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

Stage director

Alexander Kuzin

Set designer

Alexander Orlov

Costume designer

Irina Cherednikova

Lighting designer

Alexander Sivaev

Chorus master

Pavel Teplov

Orchestra

Orchester des Mariinski-Theaters

Others

The Mariinsky Chorus

Rúisis

Not Love Alone

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater

Not Love Alone Shchedrin

Public

Sagar Haldar

Béarla

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Off-Stage Artist

On-Stage Artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Soprano

Singer

Tenor

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Bass

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Действие происходит в советской деревне в послевоенное время.

Действие первое
Мужики в колхозе просиживают без дела: идет дождь, продолжать работы в поле невозможно. Домой в деревню возвращается Володя Гаврилов – жених Наташи. Он учился и работал в городе. Деревенские парни встречают его неприветливо. Начавшаяся драка прекращена председателем колхоза Варварой Васильевной. Все расходятся. Варвару одолевают сомнения: с подчиненными она строга, но над погодой, от которой зависит успех жатвы, не властна. В разговоре с Володей она пытается узнать его планы, ведь в деревне не хватает рабочих рук.

Действие второе
Молодежь собралась на вечеринку. Девушки и парни, состязаясь друг с другом, поют частушки. Появляются представители колхозной самодеятельности, исполняющие неуклюжий марш, после выступает Гаврилов. Суровые моралисты из самодеятельности распекают городского, среди обвинений звучит реплика «Сумбур вместо музыки!». Володя поет с девушками лирические куплеты. На кадриль пришла Варвара, она танцует с приглянувшимся ей Володей. После вечеринки Варвара в волнении возвращается домой, ее догоняет Володя, не скрывающий своих чувств («Вот и зацелую, врешь ты, не уйдешь»). В диалог вмешивается бригадир трактористов Федот Петрович. Варвара прогоняет защитника, а с Володей договаривается о встрече.

Действие третье
По дороге на свидание Варвара встречает Наташу, та поет тоскливую песню «Туманно красное солнышко». Председатель дает привычные распоряжения, отправляя соперницу прочь. Но в ожидании Володи начинает сомневаться в правильности своих поступков. До нее доносятся слова частушки, которую распевает одна из деревенских девушек: «Ой, уж как ночь тиха, недалеко до греха. Дайте в провожатые чужого жениха». Варвара не находит себе места: она мечтает о счастье, но не может обмануть доверие людей. Сдерживая волнение, председатель проводит рабочий инструктаж, знакомит Володю с его обязанностями и постепенно понимает, что у юноши не было никаких серьезных намерений. Перед ней опять долгий день забот и трудов.

русский

The plot of the opera was taken from the tale Aunt Lusha by contemporary Russian writer Sergei Antonov. The tale narrates the life of a commonplace Russian village soon after the end of World War II. The men have been killed at the front and only young men – boys, really – remain in the village; in my youth I saw such villages with my own eyes. The heroine of the opera, the now not-so-young Varvara (the author of the libretto Vasily Katanian and I changed her name), falls desperately in love with just such a young man who is still half a boy. The loving languor, sexual desire, the unspent maternal tenderness, secret meetings, the village love triangle (the boy has a fiancée the same age in the village), the stormy conflict and the dark and gloomy denouement is a sad finale. The village is again immersed into day-to-day tedium. The text of one of the limericks literally sums up the main idea of my opera: “Oh, mother, my mother, what should I do with my love? Scatter it in the field or bury it in the earth?” <…>
The premiere of my opera Not Love Alone took place at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on 25 December 1961. The production resulted in severe irritation from the bosses in charge of culture – the openly Freudian motifs together with the monumental patriotic processions of other Soviet operas, red banners and glorification proved to be too much of a challenging contrast. The planned next four performances were replaced with Verdi’s La traviata, and it was only two months later that the opera was shown to the public another three times after which it quietly and ingloriously vanished from the repertoire. Rodion Shchedrin

Shchedrin’s very first opera Not Love Alone (1961) was his last to be staged at the Mariinsky Theatre. It was a somewhat unexpected production. The risky plot about a Soviet village in the 1950s, where kolkhozniki (collective farmers) discuss the sowing, play the goat, go to parties and observe the mental drama faced by the collective farm’s chairwoman who unexpectedly falls in love with the young urban chap has been treated by stage director Alexander Kuzin with psychological veracity, refining the look, speech and gestures of the fifty-or-so young singers of the Academy, and his tremendous experience in drama theatre may also be observed. And yet the vivid, unusually coloured costumes by Irina Cherednikova underscore the fact that this is not village prose, not Brothers and Sisters, but rather an opera by the young Shchedrin where the libretto essentially consists of ditties. Their irony, glibness and passion set the tone for the work. The passions of a grand opera, the heroine of which appears in the form of Varvara Vasilievna and the musical heir to the schismatics Marfa and Katerina Ismailova come together with operetta, the language of which is spoken by her counterpart – the vaudeville dandy Volodya. In one act there is the concerto-skit of the homespun village ensemble in dances, and in the other there is the furious monologue of the heroine about her hopes and the impossibility of happiness where Varvara, like the tormenting Furies, stings the unseen chorus, repeating “No, no, no!” In the choral epilogue there is a photo for eternity, the entire village standing as if for a school photo, the chairwoman in the centre. This composition with an “under the tongue” ditty says more about Shchedrin’s contemporaries than any research into gender problems of a post-war village. Anna Petrova

English

Not Love Alone by Shchedrin, Dom 03 Noll 2023, Ó (2023/2023), Faoi stiúir Alexander Kuzin,, Seoltóir Valery Gergiev, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Criú

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid