FULL SADKO St.Petersburg 2023 Dmitry Demidchik, Olga Cheremnykh, Natalya Evstafieva, Ekaterina Krapivina

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Sadko   
• Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai  
• Libretto: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Peter and Paul Fortress, St.Petersburg, Russia  
• Recorded: July 12, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Dmitry Demidchik, Olga Cheremnykh, Natalya Evstafieva, Ekaterina Krapivina, Tigriy Bazhakin, Pavel Shnipov, Ilya Lavelin, Sergei Chepurko, Vladislav Uspensky, Dmitry Mulyarchik, Dmitry Grigoriev-Kan, Yuri Zaryadnov, Vitaly Yankovsky
• Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo  
• Orchestra: Orchestra of the Musical Theater F.I. Shalyapin's "Northern Symphony"  
• Chorus: Concert Choir of St. Petersburg  
• Chorus Master: Vladimir Begletsov  
• Choreographer: Sergey Naryshev  
• Stage Director: Andrei Tsvetkov-Tolbin  
• Stage Designer: Yulia Goltsova  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Silver Video  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Sadko (Russian: Садко, tr. Sadkó, the name of the main character) is an 1898 opera in seven scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer, with assistance from Vladimir Belsky, Vladimir Stasov, and others. Rimsky-Korsakov was first inspired by the bylina of Sadko in 1867, when he completed a tone poem on the subject, his Op. 5. After finishing his second revision of this work in 1891, he decided to turn it into a dramatic work.

  The music is highly evocative, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s famed powers of orchestration are abundantly evident throughout the score. According to the Soviet critic Boris Asafyev, writing in 1922, Sadko constitutes the summit of Rimsky-Korsakov’s craft. From the opus 5 tone poem the composer quoted its most memorable passages, including the opening theme of the swelling sea,and other themes as leitmotives – he himself set out to “utilize for this opera the material of my symphonic poem, and, in any event, to make use of its motives as leading motives for the opera”.

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