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07 December 2019 (Sat), 12:00 World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - established 1783 - Stars of the Stars  Opera Music by Sergei Banevich "The Story of Kai and Gerda" opera in two acts

Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes (till 14:20)

The performance has 1 intermission

Schedule for Music by Sergei Banevich "The Story of Kai and Gerda" opera in two acts 2022

Mezzo soprano: Nadezhda Serdyuk
Mezzo soprano: Elena Vitman
Bass: Vadim Kravets
Bass: Pavel Shmulevich
Conductor: Zaurbek Gugkaev
Choir: The Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers
Soprano: Anzhelika Minasova
Tenor: Igor Barbakov

Musical Preparation: Larisa Gergieva
Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk
Set Designer: Elena Orlova
Lighting Designer: Yevgeny Ganzburg
Stage Director: Ilya Ustyantsev
Composer: Sergei Banevich

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Opera company: Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera

Opera in 2 act

Performed in Russian, with synchronised English supertitles

World premiere: 24 December 1980, Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mariinsky Theatre), Leningrad, USSR
Premiere of this production: 30 November 2016, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia

Music for children written by Sergey Banevich is rightly loved by many generations of music lovers. “The Story of Kai and Gerda” is among the most famous works by the composer. Opera adaptation of “The Snow Queen” fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen will become an excellent reason for a family theatre visit.

PERFORMERS

Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers

CREDITS

Music by Sergei Banevich 
Libretto by Tatiana Kalinina

Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk
Production and Costume Designer: Elena Orlova 
Lighting Designer: Yevgeny Ganzburg 
Video Designer: Viktoria Zlotnikova
Choreographer: Ilya Ustyantsev
Assistant Stage Directors: Ilya Ustyantsev, Anna Shishkina and Sergei Bogoslavsky 
Musical Preparation: Larisa Gergieva

 

Age category 6+




Synopsis

Prologue 
The crafty trolls are laughing at the people. They have made a mirror of evil in which everything that is good and kind is reflected as being ugly. The mirror is broken and one of the shards flies around the world, breaking people's hearts and turning them into ice. The Lamplighter begins his tale about Kai and Gerda.

Act I 
The residents of Odense are making merry on the city's main square. The Grandmother calls on Kai and Gerda to come home. "Don't joke with the snow-storm, don't joke with the frost," she warns. Two trolls appear on the square; they are ready to do anything to spoil the holiday atmosphere and make Kai and Gerda quarrel.

Evening at Kai and Gerda's house. A snow-storm is blowing outside the window. The children are playing a game. At this time the trolls appear in the house. Plunging a shard of the mirror of evil into Kai, they disappear. It is as if the boy has been replaced with someone else: the scent of roses is anathema to him, he mocks Gerda and the Grandmother and speaks with them in a haughty manner. The Snow Queen's voice calls out to him, and in oblivion he speaks again of "eternity and hundreds of stars". The Grandmother knows that the Snow Queen can be heard by those with hearts of ice.

On the square in Odense. The citizens are being entertained by travelling performers. A snow-storm begins. The Snow Queen has arrived and she calls Kai to come to her icy palace. The boy, following her, disappears in the snowy blizzard. The snowflakes abate and the Lamplighter attempts to instil the people with hope: "Wait amid any snowstorm, winter has a brief season."

Act II 
Dusk in the forest. Gerda has set out in search of Kai and stumbled upon a camp of robbers. The bandits are all too willing to make short work of the defenceless girl. Gerda calls out to Kai and weeps. The Ataman's daughter comes to her defence, bold and wilful. From the Reindeer, a captive of the Little Girl Robber, Gerda learns that Kai has flown with the Snow Queen to the island of Spitzbergen. Gerda's self-sacrifice touches the heart of the Little Girl Robber, and she releases her new friend and gives her the reins of the Reindeer.

The Lamplighter thinks about how the saddest and most dangerous thing in the world is hatred.

The Reindeer has brought Gerda to the Snow Queen's realm. Kai is in one of the halls of her icy palace. He has almost forgotten his previous life and his heart has frozen. The boy is busy with something important – he is creating the word "eternity" from pieces of ice for which he has been promised the whole world and a pair of skates into the bargain. Gerda calls to him, speaking about Odense, home and storks on the roof. It seems that Kai remembers: it is she, Gerda, who appeared to her in a dream, it is she who called to him.

The Snow Queen enters the hall. She freezes the children's hearts and they are about to die. At the last minute Kai rushes to the pieces of ice and instead of the word "eternity" he spells out "I love". The Snow Queen has been defeated and the palace is bathed in sunlight. Kai and Gerda rush back to Odense on the Reindeer where they are awaited by the Grandmother, Lamplighter and the citizens.




Schedule for Music by Sergei Banevich "The Story of Kai and Gerda" opera in two acts 2022


Extract from the opera "The Story of Kai and Gerda"
 
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Extract from the opera "The Story of Kai and Gerda"
Mariinsky theatre, St.Petersburg, Russia


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