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FULL Not Love Alone (Shchedrin) Selections Playlist St.Petersburg 2022-2023 Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Alexander Trofimov, Andrei Serov, Natalya Pavlova
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Not Love Alone (also translated Not for Love Alone or Not Only Love; Russian: Не только любовь ; Ne tol'ko lyubov
- Composer: Shchedrin Rodion
- Libretto: V. Katanyan based on the stories by S. Antonov Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Concert Hall, Mariinsky, Chamber Opera Theatre, St.Petersburg, Russia
- Recorded: May 18, 2022 & April 24, 2022 & October 26, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Alexander Trofimov, Andrei Serov, Natalya Pavlova, Natalia Vorobyova, Vladislav Mazankin, Anton Morozov, Leontiy Salyensky, Yury Borshchev, Vsevolod Kalmykov, Natalia Kochubey, Alina Nikolaeva
- Conductor: Zaurbek Gugkaev
- Orchestra: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
- Chorus Master: Pavel Teplov
- Choreographer: Gali Abaidulov
- Stage Director: Alexander Kuzin
- Stage Designer: Alexander Orlov
- Costume Designer: Irina Cherednikova
- Lighting Designer: Alexander Sivaev
Information about the Recording
- Published by: @KULTURA108
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Not Love Alone (also translated Not for Love Alone or Not Only Love; Russian: Не только любовь; Ne tol’ko lyubov’) is the first opera of Rodion Shchedrin, written 1961, revised in 1971.
Irina Arkhipova created the role of Varvara and recorded Varvara’s aria on her Arias recital for Melodiya 1967.
A well-known piece from this opera (usually played by cello and piano) is the humorous Quadrille from the second Act (Scene 15: The arrival of Varvara Vasilyevna and quadrille)