Betrothal in a Monastery (Saint-Petersburg Opera Theatre, opera)
Betrothal in a Monastery (Saint-Petersburg Opera Theatre, opera)
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| Ticket price: Tickets available by request Genre: Opera
| Age restriction: 16+ | Length: 2.55
Artists
Conductor of the performance:Maxim Valkov
Don Jerome: Sergey Aleshchenko Louisa, daughter of Don Jerome:Evgenya Kravchenko Don Ferdinand, son of Don Jerome:Egor Chubakov Mendoza, a fish merchant:Efim Rastorguyev Mendoza, a fish merchant:Efim Rastorguyev Clara:Victoria Martemyanova The Duenna :Natalya Vorobyeva Don Antonio:Denis Akhmetshin Don Carlos, friend of Mendoza:Alexey Pashiev Padre Augustin, he’s Chartreuse:Alexander Borodin Lopez, he’s Elustaf:Leonty Salienski Padre Benedictine:Anton Morozov Lauretta:Natalya Pleshkova
Credits
Music: Sergei Prokofiev Libretto: Sergei Prokofiev Production: Yuri Alexandrov Conductor: Alexander Goikhman Maxim Valkov Set and Costume Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev Directors: Tatyana Karpacheva Natalia Chernikova Darya Modzalevskaya Musical Preparation: Irina Teplyakova Chorus Master: Maria Gergel Choreographer: Nadezhda Kalinina
The performance has been awarded with Gold spotlights, the highest drama award of St. Petersburg in 2011-2012 season as The best opera house performance. It was directed by Yuri Alexandrov and conducted Alexander Goikhman. The plot of "Betrothal in a Monastery", a comic opera by Sergei Prokofiev, based on "The Duenna", a play by Richard Sheridan, is well known to the audience.
In the theatre, known for its unusual director's approach, the plot of the Sheridan’s play is interpreted as a funny story about the everlasting conflict of generations, a conflict between academic style and innovation. Yuri Alexandrov, the director, says "I wanted my actors, who are mostly young people, to have a rest of the tragedy and to play themselves. We have moved the action into an educational institution, perhaps it’s the St. Petersburg Theatre Academy that I love so much. What we made is like a joke, something similar to a students’ party where acting and reality are connected organically. It starts like a kind of acting studies as a form of existence. Then it becomes a bright feast of theatre performance that gradually begins to dominate reality. This performance requires the singers to have virtuoso plastics ability, dancing and fencing skill close to those of drama actors."