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Tag Archives: Aida Garifullina
Rebel with a Rimsky cause: Dmitri Tcherniakov returns to the Bolshoi with Sadko
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko Bolshoi Opera, 11th May 2020 When it comes to ruffling feathers at the Bolshoi, Dmitri Tcherniakov has form. It was in 2006 that his radical approach to Eugene Onegin caused Galina Vishnevskaya to declare she would never set … Continue reading
Rites of Spring: Tcherniakov embraces Rimsky-Korsakov’s hymn to nature at the Bastille
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden **** Opéra Bastille, 15th April 2017 There’s a wonderful painting by Ilya Repin of an aged Leo Tolstoy in peasant clothing. Having renounced his aristocratic lifestyle, the great writer didn’t just adopt peasant dress, but lived … Continue reading
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Tagged Aida Garifullina, Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Paris, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Elena Manistina, Franz Hawlata, Martina Serafin, Maxim Paster, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Opéra national de Paris, Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, Rimsky-Korsakov, The Snow Maiden, Thomas Johannes Mayer, Vladimir Ognovenko, Yuriy Mynenko
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С днём рождения, Rimsky-Korsakov!
Think Rimsky-Korsakov and your mind is probably drawn to Scheherazade or the equally colourful works written either side of it: Capriccio espagnol and the Russian Easter Festival Overture. Primarily, Rimsky considered himself an opera composer, composing sixteen of them between … Continue reading
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Tagged Aida Garifullina, Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Olga Borodina, Rimsky-Korsakov
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Celeste Aida: Garifullina shines in Rosenblatt Recital debut
Aida Garifullina **** Wigmore Hall, 3rd December 2014 In the opera Boris Godunov, Varlaam, disguised as a monk, sings a drunken song about Ivan the Terrible’s siege of Kazan. The capital of Tatarstan was birthplace to one of the great Russian … Continue reading
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Tagged Aida Garifullina, Iain Burnside, Mark Pullinger, Rosenblatt Recital
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