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FULL On the Water Nymph’s Easter (Mykola Leontovych) Kyiv 2008 Dmytro Foschanka, Olena Kumanovska, T. Kumanovska
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: On the Water Nymph's Easter
- Composer: Leontovych Mykola
- Libretto: based on a fairy tale by Boris Grinchenko Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Kyiv Operetta Theater, Kiev, Ukraine
- Recorded: 2008
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Dmytro Foschanka, Olena Kumanovska, T. Kumanovska, V. Khabarova, S. Kopachevska, N. Zhvinklienė, A. Rybak, I. Lazebnyk, A. Sinkevych
- Conductor: Yevhen Dosenko
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: UTR
- Date Published: 2008
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A dramatic and operatic etude in one act “At the Mermaid’s Easter” , based on the lyrical and fantastic opera by the famous composer Mykola Leontovych based on a fairy tale plot by Boris Grinchenko.
This was the first major symphonic work, on which the composer began working in 1919. The first act of the opera “For the Mermaid’s Easter” by Mykola Leontovych was first performed in 1920. The maestro intended to expand it to a three-act work, but he was not destined to do so – on the night of January 23, 1921, Mykola Leontovych was treacherously murdered in his father’s house.
The plot of the opera is fairy-tale and fantastic: a Cossack, wandering on a summer night along the banks of the Dnieper on the eve of Trinity, on the mermaids’ Easter, sees mermaids basking under the silver rays of the moon. Noticing a stranger, the mermaids ask him riddles and want to drag the guy under the water, but the youngest mermaid saves him, melting in the rays of the morning sun. The fantastic and real worlds collide, but love turns out to be stronger than death!