FULL It’s time for us to go to the opera TV-Documentary Russia 1977 Irina Bogacheva, Galina Kovaleva, Boris Shtokolov

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: It's time for us to go to the opera  
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: various  
• Recorded: 1977
• Type: Other
• Singers: Irina Bogacheva, Galina Kovaleva, Boris Shtokolov, and others
• Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov, Yuri Gamalei  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Lentelefilm  
• Date Published: 1977  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

“It’s time for us to go to the opera …” Doc. movie. Lentelefilm, 1977
Opening speech – Sergey Bulanov, musicologist, responsible. editor of the magazine “Musical Life”.

“It’s time for us to go to the opera…” – Pushkin’s line is called the film is not accidental. The poet was at the premiere of M. Glinka’s first opera “Ivan Susanin” on November 27, 1836 at the Bolshoi Theater (Stone) in St. Petersburg. The posters read: “Life for the Tsar” – the composer was forced to accept the correction of Nicholas the First. While still a cadet, Rimsky-Korsakov admired this work. He confessed to his parents: “… I now love music as much as it is impossible to love more.” In the heroic-tragic opera, as Glinka himself called it, some heard “coachman’s music”, while others, like Pushkin, like the writer Odoevsky, considered that this was “a new period: the period of Russian music.” Thus began the history of Russian opera…

Many details – posters of the revolutionary and war years, rehearsal moments, backstage life tell about the main productions of the famous oldest Kirov Theater (previously and now the Mariinsky, which is also the successor to the Bolshoi in St. Petersburg). When the film was being shot, Yuri Temirkanov was the artistic director and conductor of the orchestra of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater named after S.M. Kirov. It belongs to him the words: “You just need to listen to music and smile, not even knowing why. And cry, not understanding the reason. You cannot understand music, you only need to feel it.” The film includes scenes from operas by M. Glinka, M. Mussorgsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, P. Tchaikovsky performed by Irina Bogacheva, Galina Kovaleva, Boris Shtokolov and others. Yuri Temirkanov and Yuri Gamalei take part.