CDLIVa. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolai: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (Act I)

CDLIVa. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolai (1844-1908)

The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (1905)
Act I
Mikhail Kazakov, Prince Yuri Vseolodovich
Vitaly Panfilov, Hereditary prince Vsevolod Yuryevich
Tatiana Monogarova, Fevronya
Mikhail Gubsky, Grishka Kuterma
Gevorg Hakobyan, Fyodor Poyarok
Marika Gulordava, Page
Gianluca Floris, Notable
Marek Kalbus, Notable
Valery Gilmanov, Bedyay
Alexander Naumenko, Burunday
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
Alexander Vedernikov, cond.
(3:07:42)

Stage set design for Act IV, Scene 2

Rimsky loved long titles.

The 14th of Rimsky's 15 operas, The Legend is one of his most adventurous harmonic experiments and looks ahead to many of the ideas further explored within the following decade by Stravinsky and Prokofiev.

The time is the summer of the 6751st year of the creation of the world.
The place is an unspecified location beyond the Volga River.

There are no subtitles.

Synopsis

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Introduction

Act I

Fevroniya. Ah, you forest, my forest

Fevroniya. Where are you, my dear friends

Fevroniya, Prince Vsevolod. Don't be afraid of the shaggy beast

Prince Vsevolod, Fevroniya. I have no time to sit, mistress

Prince Vsevolod, Fevroniya. Whose child are you, where have you come from?

Prince Vsevolod, Fevroniya. Ah, you beautiful maiden!

Fevroniya, Prince Vsevolod. Day and night we have our service

Fevroniya. Dearest, how can you live without joy

Prince Vsevolod, Fevroniya. Hail to thee, lips of honey

Prince Vsevolod, Fevroniya. My little dove

Marksmen, Prince Vsevolod. As soon as the marksmen came out

Fevroniya, Prince Vsevolod. Oh! Oh, come back, dearest!

Marksmen. He was driving the wild animals into the open field

Poyarok, Fevroniya, Marksmen. Where did you come from, maiden?

Act II