FULL Alpha & Omega (Gil Shohat) TV-Opera Moscow 2022 Elena Alexandrovna Mikhailenko, Ivan Gyngazov

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Alpha & Omega   
• Composer: Shohat Gil   
• Libretto: Dori Manor, Anna Hermann based on the lithographic story by Edvard Munch    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Helikon-opera, Moscow, Russia  
• Recorded: 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Elena Alexandrovna Mikhailenko, Ivan Gyngazov
• Conductor: Valery Kiryanov  
• Orchestra:
• Chorus Master: Evgeny Ilyin  
• Choreographer: Edvald Smirnov  
• Stage Director: Ilya Anatolyevich Ilyin, Dmitry Bertman  
• Stage Designer: Pavel Dragunov  
• Costume Designer: Sofia Tasmagambetova  
• Lighting Designer: Denis Enyukov  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: etvnet  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  A drama about devoted love, temptation, jealousy and death. This is a warning message, an opera-parable, calling on us, living in a fast, stormy and cruel time for man, to stop for a moment and think about the meaning of life. How does pure love turn into hell? Who are we – people or animals?

  G. Shohat has composed the opera in the age of 27, but the conception has appeared long before. When he was graduating from the school, at the exhibition of Edward Munch, he saw the series of drawings “Alpha & Omega” to the artist’s poem. The poem has inspired the young composer to create the opera. The work with the musical material has longed for 10 years. The author himself thinks, that this is the most important creation in his life and calls “Alpha & Omega” the apocalyptic opera.

  Alpha and Omega is the combination of the first and last letters of the classical alphabet. These are the God symbols as the beginning and the end of all things. Alpha and Omega – are the main characters of the G. Shohat’s opera. The plot is very difficult to explain in words – it’s a warning message, opera- paroemia, which invokes us, who live in the rapid, turbulent and cruel time for a person, to stop for a moment and to take a thought about the meaning of life.

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