Name: The Opera of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
Start: 2021-10-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-10-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet

Organization

Stage director

Oxana Shtanina

Conductor

Evgeny Khokhlov

Lighting designer

Emil Avramenko

Set designer

Alexander Pyryalin

Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet

Russian

The Opera of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich

Samara

Russia

Chamber stage

The Opera of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich Banshchikov

Public

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

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Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

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Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

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Illustrator

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On-Stage Artist

Orchestra

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Poet

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Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

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Bass-baritone

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Tenor

Countertenor

Bass

Contralto

Baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Operas based on the works of Gogol cannot be compared in popularity with operas based on Pushkin, but they are created with regularity. Back in 1868, Mussorgsky composed the opera The Marriage, and later wrote, but did not finish, the opera The Sorochinskaya Fair. In 1874-1887, Tchaikovsky created three versions of the opera based on the story "The Night Before Christmas", which eventually received the name "Cherevichki", and in 1895 Rimsky-Korsakov composed an opera based on the same plot - he also set it to music in 1880 " May night. Shostakovich, being evacuated in Kuibyshev, worked on the opera The Players, but did not finish it - on the other hand, his The Nose, first staged in 1930, is staged not only in Russia, but also on world stages. More than two dozen other operas have been written to Gogol's texts - Dead Souls, Taras Bulba, Portrait, Notes of a Madman, and The Inspector General received musical embodiment.
In 1971, the Kirov (today the Mariinsky) Theater ordered a new opera based on Gogol by the young composer Gennady Banshchikov. The writer Mikhail Lobodin (1901-1999), author of historical fiction, worked on the libretto. The vicissitudes of the litigation of the Mirgorod landlords, who quarreled from scratch, described by Gogol, remain behind the scenes; a detailed description of their friendship and characters is condensed into a few minutes, and the main attention is paid to the quarrel scene itself. “How they quarreled ...” is even called an opera-stage. There are only two characters in it - tenor and bass.

It took the composer a year of work to compose a half-hour opera. The premiere took place on August 4, 1973. Gennady Banshchikov lived in Ukraine as a child, and he made the main theme of the opera the famous Ukrainian song “I marvel at the sky and wonder at that thought ...” to the verses of Mikhail Petrenko (1817-1862) and the music of Lyudmila Alexandrova, the years of birth and death are unknown), one of the first female composers in the Russian Empire. First, two Ivans sing the song in a duet, like bosom friends, and towards the end they break off relations with the same melody.

Banshchikov dedicated his opera to the composer Richard Strauss, and the complexity of the orchestration of this chamber work is really not inferior to the sophistication of the scores of Strauss and Wagner. This orchestral richness and pathos are needed for one purpose - to show, in full accordance with the spirit of Gogol's satire, how large-scale their most petty passions can be for people

English

The Opera of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich by Banshchikov, Sat 16 Oct 2021, From (2021/2021), Directed by Oxana Shtanina,, Conductor Evgeny Khokhlov, Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Samara, Russia

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