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Olga Seliverstova

The Snow Maiden

Olga Semenishcheva (Peshkova)

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Alexandra Kadurina

Anna Nechaeva

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Maria Lobanova

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Elchin Azizov

Mizgir

Maksim Aniskin

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Bogdan Volkov

Tsar Berendey

Alexei Neklyudov

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Agunda Kulaeva

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Elena Manistina

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Gleb Nikolsky

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Roman Muravitsky

Bobyl Bakula

Ivan Maximeyko

Evgenia Segenyuk

Bobylikha

Vyacheslav Pochapsky

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Marat Gali

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Taras Prisyazhnyuk

Vadim Babichuk

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Igor Tsurcan

Valery Gilmanov

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Nikolay Kazansky

Andrei Grigoriev

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Eleonora Gvozdkova

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Tugan Sokhiev

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Alexander Titel

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Vladimir Arefiev

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Damir Ismagilov

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Larisa Alexandrova

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Valery Borisov

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Snegurotchka -  (The Snowmaiden)

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The Snowmaiden

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Snegurotchka

15 июня 2017 года на Исторической сцене Большого состоялась премьера оперы Н.А. Римского-Корсакова "Снегурочка".

Дирижер-постановщик — Туган Сохиев
Режиссер-постановщик — Александр Титель 

Подробнее о спектакле: http://www.bolshoi.ru/performances/1024/  

June, 15, 2017 “The Snow Maiden” opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov premiered on the Historical stage.

Music Director: Tugan Sokhiev
Stage Director: Alexander Titel 

Synopsis and Tickets: http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances...

The Snow Maiden is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky (which had premiered in 1873 with incidental music by Tchaikovsky).

The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1882 (OS; 10 February NS) conducted by Eduard Nápravník. By 1898 it was revised in the edition known today. It remained the composer's own favorite work.

The story deals with the opposition of eternal forces of nature and involves the interactions of mythological characters (Frost, Spring, Wood-Sprite), real people (Kupava, Mizgir'), and those in-between, i.e., half-mythical, half-real (Snow Maiden, Lel’, Berendey). The composer strove to distinguish each group of characters musically, and several individual characters have their own associated leitmotifs. In addition to these distinctions, Rimsky-Korsakov characterized the townspeople particularly with folk melodies. For a deeper understanding of this work from the composer's point of view, the reader is directed to his autobiography, as well as to his own incomplete analysis of the opera from 1905.

The Moscow premiere followed that of St. Petersburg three years later in 1885. It was presented by the Russian Private Opera (the Opera of Savva Mamontov in Moscow), conducted by Enrico Bevignani with scenic Design by Viktor Vasnetsov, Isaak Levitan, and Konstantin Korovin; Tsar Berendey – Grigoriy Erchov, Bermyata – Anton Bedlevitch, Spring Beauty – Vera Gnucheva, Grandfather Frost – Stepan Vlasov, The Snow Maiden – Nadejda Salina, Bobyl Bakula – G. Kassilov or Nikolay Miller, Lel – Tatyana Liubatovitch, Mizgir – Mikhail Malinin (Boris Mikhailovich Malinin and Marina Raskova’s father), Second Herald – M.Skuratovskiy.

The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow presented the opera in 1893.

In March 2014 University College Opera presented a new English translation of The Snowmaiden in the Bloomsbury Theatre.

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