FULL BABI RIOT (Geller) TV-Opera Russia 1968 E. Dovbysh, Galina Pisarenko, Ruslana Oreshkina

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Babi Riot or Бабий бунт  
• Composer: Mikhail Geller  
• Libretto: Sergei Tsenin based on Mikhail Sholokhov's story "About Kolchak, Nettle and Others"    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: TV-Studio Russia  
• Recorded: 1968
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: E. Dovbysh, Galina Pisarenko, Ruslana Oreshkina, Mikhail Shkaptsov, George Pankov, Leonid Eliseev, George Dudarev
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Yuri Bogatyrenko  
• Stage Designer: Igor Romanovsky  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Soviet television. GOSTELERADIOFOND  
• Date Published: 1968  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Opera by Mikhail Geller based on Mikhail Sholokhov’s story “About Kolchak, Nettle and Others”, libretto by Sergei Tsenin.
This story took place in the eighth year of Soviet power in a Cossack farm. Uprising, a woman’s rebellion, in a word. Not against the authorities, no, God forbid, but against legitimate husbands.
Former farmer Nastya returns to her native place, where she observes a familiar picture: the free life of the Cossacks, while their wives are exhausted from hard domestic work, which even the peasants cannot do. One night, after another Cossack party, having gathered the children and the necessary utensils, the Cossack women suddenly disappear from the farm…