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  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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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)