09 January 2018 (Tue), 19:00 World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall - Opera Dmitry Shostakovich "Gamblers" opera in one act
Schedule for Dmitry Shostakovich "Gamblers" opera in one act 2022
Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky Composer: Igor Stravinsky Composer: Richard Strauss
Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra Opera company: Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera
Music by Dmitry Shostakovich Text by Nikolai Gogol
PERFORMERS: Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers The Mariinsky Orchestra
The Gamblers is an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Gamblers (1842). The surviving first act lasts around 47 minutes.
Shostakovich, who was trying to set every word of Gogol's play, abandoned the opera as too long and unwieldy. He returned to the work towards the end of his life, reusing material from the overture in the scherzo of the sonata for viola and piano.
Schedule for Dmitry Shostakovich "Gamblers" opera in one act 2022
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