Performed in Italian with synchronised Russian supertitles
World premiere: 1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna
Premiere of this production: 1 May 2009, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after
the comedy by Beaumarchais Translated by Pyotr
Tchaikovsky
Stage Director Alexander Petrov is a man of
cheerful, positive disposition. He has refrained from imbuing this opera buffa
with, for example, psychoanalytical motifs of a complete travesty, as many
“fashionable” colleagues would have done in his place, he has made it a simple
though inventive production, meticulously but with great joy.
Vedomosti
The lively and witty production
staged by Alexander Petrov lent itself to being seen “in one breath” and drew a
warm response from the audience. The merry, classical production of the opera
brings to mind all Salzburg performances together (there are “quotations” now
from one, now from another). While, at the same time, this quoting from
acclaimed productions appears appropriate and unobtrusive. And the performers of
the leading roles feel comfortable in the labyrinth of sets and create
convincing images. Nevskoe vremya