FULL MAZEPPA Moscow 1986 Yuri Mazurok, Arthur Eisen, Irina Arkhipova, Tamara Milashkina, Vladimir Atlantov

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Mazeppa or Mazepa  
• Composer: Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilyich  
• Libretto: Viktor Burenin    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia  
• Recorded: December 25,1986
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Yuri Mazurok, Arthur Eisen, Irina Arkhipova, Tamara Milashkina, Vladimir Atlantov
• Conductor: A.Ziuraitis  
• Orchestra: Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre  
• Chorus: Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre  
• Stage Director: Sergey Bondarchuk  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Soviet television. GOSTELERADIOFOND  
• Date Published: 1986  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Mazeppa, properly Mazepa (Russian: Мазепа), is an opera in three acts (six scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Victor Burenin and is based on Pushkin’s poem Poltava, part of the cultural legacy of Mazeppa.

Mazeppa is a blood-thirsty tale of crazy love, abduction, political persecution, execution, and vengeful murder. The action takes place in Ukraine at the beginning of the 18th century. The protagonists are the historical figures Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa (1639–1709), the Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and Vasyl Leontiyovych Kochubey (c.1640–1708), a very prosperous Ukrainian nobleman and statesman.