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

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

The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (1905)
Act IV
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

Act IV

Fevroniya, Kuterma. Oh, I can't go on, Grishenka

Kuterma, Fevroniya. I'm not a sinner

Fevroniya, Kuterma. Earth, our merciful mother!

Kuterma. What's happening to me?

Fevroniya. Grishenka!

Fevroniya. Let me see: what pretty flowers

Fevroniya. Let me see: what pretty flowers

Fevroniya, Voice of Alkonost. The free birds are toning up their voices

Fevroniya, Ghost of Prince Vsevolod. Is that you, radiant light of my eyes?

Fevroniya, Ghost. My hope lives, beloved, you are intact!

Voice of Sirin, Fevroniya, Ghost. The bridegroom has come

Ghost, Fevroniya. He who partakes of our bread

Fevroniya. Lord Jesus

Voice of Sirin, Voice of Alkonost. Transition to Scene 2

Orchestral introduction

Alkonost, Sirin, the people, Fevroniya. The doors of paradise

Fevroniya. Radiant kingdom!

The people, Fevroniya, Prince Vsevolod. As on sky-blue flowers

Prince Yury, Fevroniya. May the grace of God be with you!

Fevroniya, Prince Vsevolod, Prince Yury, Sirin, Alkonost, Page, Poyarok. Why is the light here so brilliant

The people, Fevroniya, Sirin, Alkonost, Prince Vsevolod, Prince Yury. Stay with us here for ever more

The people, Prince Vsevolod, Fevroniya, Prince Yury. Stay with us here for ever more

Fevroniya, Poyarok, Prince Yury, the people. Grishenka, even though you are feeble in mind