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A GRAND HISTORY Opera Concert Moscow 2025 Dinara Alieva, Mikhail Petrenko, Maria Barakova, Sergey Romanovsky
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: A Grand History
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Moscow, Russia
- Recorded: August 30, 2025
- Type: Concert Semi-staged
- Singers: Dinara Alieva, Mikhail Petrenko, Maria Barakova, Sergey Romanovsky
- Conductor: Dmitry Korchak
- Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra
- Chorus: Moscow Chamber Choir of Vladimir Minin
- Stage Director: Alexey Frandetti
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Kultura TV
- Date Published: 2026
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In the staged performance A Grand History, vivid historical events intertwine:
Prince Igor’s campaign, the secrets of the Madrid court, the coronation of Boris Godunov, love intrigues on the French stage, the heroic feat of Ivan Susanin, and many others.
All of them are reflected in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Modest Mussorgsky, Mikhail Glinka, and Giacomo Meyerbeer; in the dramatic poems of Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, and Eugène Scribe; and in the poetry of Kondraty Ryleyev and Osip Mandelstam.
The concert-performance “Great History” is dedicated to key themes in world history and literature. “A whirlwind of time will carry you through the centuries: from Prince Igor’s campaign to the Sicilian Vespers, from the secrets of the Madrid court to Susanin’s heroic deed. The operas of Verdi, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Glinka, and the dramas of great authors will weave a wreath of great history” ( www.ruspass.ru )
The following opera fragments are performed with the participation of the Minin Choir:
— The final chorus “Glory to…” from the opera “A Life for the Tsar” by M.I. Glinka;
— Polovtsian Dances from the opera “Prince Igor” by A. Borodin;
— The coronation scene and Boris’s monologue “The soul grieves…” from the opera “Boris Godunov” by M. Mussorgsky.
— The auto-da-fé scene with the chorus from the grand finale of Act III of the opera Don Carlos by G. Verdi.
Symphonic fragments, solo arias and scenes from operas by the aforementioned authors, as well as by G. Rossini, F. Cilea and P.I. Tchaikovsky will also be performed.