FULL LE PAUVRE MATELOT (Milhaud) Kyiv 2025 Vyacheslav Kryzhanovsky, Natalia Dubinina, Pavel Belsky, Alexey Slyusar
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Le Pauvre Matelot
- Composer: Milhaud Darius
- Libretto: Jean Cocteau Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Opera studio of NMAU named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky Кyiv, Kiev, Ukraine
- Recorded: May 24, 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Vyacheslav Kryzhanovsky, Natalia Dubinina, Pavel Belsky, Alexey Slyusar
- Conductor: Andrey Zalisko
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Petro Ilchenko
- Stage Designer: Alexey Gonchar
- Costume Designer: Alexey Gonchar
- Lighting Designer: Alexey Gonchar
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Yuriy Panytsia (PanyaRecords)
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, gensubs, othersubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Le Pauvre Matelot is an opera (described as a “complaint” ) in three acts by Darius Milhaud on a libretto by Jean Cocteau created on December 16, 1927at the Opéra-Comique . Lasting approximately 35 minutes, it is dedicated to the composer Henri Sauguet .
Argument
The action takes place “in the present day” at the port.
Milhaud sums up the story as follows:
“The subject of The Poor Sailor is simple: a woman has had no news for several years from her husband, who is a sailor. Despite her father-in-law’s insistence, she refuses to remarry. The husband returns unexpectedly; he first goes to a neighbor’s house, who informs him of his wife’s virtuous attitude and her misery; the husband wants to “see her happiness from the outside.” He pretends to be a friend of her husband’s to his wife …”