FULL The Maid of Orleans (Tchaikovsky) Selections Playlist St.Petersburg 2021-2023 Ekaterina Semenchuk, Maria Bayankina, Sergei Skorokhodov, Mikhail Petrenko
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Maid of Orleans russ. Orleanskaja deva
- Composer: Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilyich
- Libretto: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Mariinsky II, St.Petersburg, Russia
- Recorded: June 1, 2021 & July 18, 2022 & September 7, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Ekaterina Semenchuk, Maria Bayankina, Sergei Skorokhodov, Mikhail Petrenko, Kirill Zharovin, Roman Burdenko, Yevgeny Nikitin, Yulia Matochkina, Irina Churilova, Sergei Semishkur, Yuri Vorobiev, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Pavel Yankovsky, Oleg Sychov, Zinaida Tsarenko, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Sergei Semishkur, Gleb Peryazev, Vadim Kravets
- Conductor: Valery Gergiev, Gurgen Petrosyan
- Orchestra: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
- Chorus: Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
- Chorus Master: Konstantin Rylov
- Choreographer: Ilya Ustyantsev
- Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk
- Stage Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev
- Costume Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev
- Lighting Designer: Irina Vtornikova
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
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The Maid of Orleans (Russian: Орлеанская дева, romanized: Orleanskaja deva, lit. ’Virgin of Orleans’ listenⓘ) is an opera in 4 acts, 6 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed during 1878–1879 to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on several sources: Friedrich Schiller’s The Maid of Orleans as translated by Vasily Zhukovsky; Jules Barbier’s Jeanne d’Arc; Auguste Mermet’s libretto for his own 1876 opera; and Henri Wallon’s biography of Joan of Arc. Dedicated to conductor Eduard Nápravník, this work represents the composer’s closest approach to French grand opera, albeit in the Russian language, notably with its inclusion of a ballet in act 2.
Performance history
The world premiere was given on 25 February 1881 (13 February O.S.) at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, conducted by Eduard Nápravník. Notable subsequent performances were given on 28 July 1882 in Prague under Adolf Čech, the first production of any Tchaikovsky opera outside Russia; in 1899 in Moscow by the Private Opera Society, conducted by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov; and in 1907 in Moscow by the Zimin Opera, conducted by Palitsīn.
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