Organization

Stage director

Ivan Fadeev

Conductor

Evgeny Khokhlov

Costume designer

Natalia Zemalindinova

Set designer

Elena Solovyova

Chorus master

Tatiana Pashutina

Lighting designer

Video designer

Vladimir Porotkin

Singer

Soprano

Sofia Tsimbal

Gerda

Tenor

David Pogosyan

Yaroslav Kozhevnikov

Baritone

Roman Nikolaev

The Lamplighter

Vladimir Borovikov

Mezzo-soprano

Evgenia Tenyakova

The Grandmother

Marina Zubchaninova

Valeria Andreeva

The Snow Queen

Anastasya Vecherkina

Libretto

Tatiana Kalinina

Choreographer

Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet

Russian

The Story of Kai and Gerda -  (Kai and Gerda)

Samara

Russia

Chamber stage

Main stage

The Story of Kai and Gerda Banevich

Public

Kai and Gerda

Approved

Samara Opera and Ballet Theater presented "The Story of Kai and Gerda"

Even though Hans Christian Andersen is considered the main storyteller of Europe, one cannot say that he wrote only for children. Only when we grow up can we truly appreciate the filigree grace of his fairy tales. The stories he wrote are as tender as the sounds of violins and flutes, but from the pages of his books every now and then an icy Scandinavian wind blows. Andersen does not pretend that evil does not coexist with good in the world, that life goes on forever, but he shows how love, hope and faith make the existence of all living things worthless, be it people or rose bushes.

Andersen's stories deserve to be framed with the sound of an orchestra, because music, like these fairy tales, affects the listener's heart directly. And so the composer Sergei Banevich, together with the poet Tatyana Kalinina, wrote the opera "The Story of Kai and Gerda" based on the fairy tale "The Snow Queen". In it, love opposes the icy cold of soulless eternity. True selfless love, not just a desire to have someone in your possession.

Eternity and hundreds of stars is, of course, beautiful. But the soul is not warmed by the stars, but by the warmth of spring.

English

Kai and Gerda by Banevich, From (2021/2022), Directed by Ivan Fadeev,, Conductor Evgeny Khokhlov, Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Samara, Russia

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