Russian Opera Classics [Box Set]
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.OA-BD7193BD

By Alessandra Marianelli, Andrej Dunaev, Bo Skovhus, Carole Wilson, Chil, Christopher Ventris, Emily Magee, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Ewa Podle, Krassimira Stoyanova, Maksim Aksenov, Misha Didyk, Orlin Anastassov, Pavel Zubov, Svetlana Ignatovich, and Vladimir Vaneev. By Boris Godunov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Sound: Dolby Stereo; LPCM stereo; DTS Surround. Classical. 6 Bluray. Opus Arte #OA BD7193BD. Published by Opus Arte (NX.OA-BD7193BD).

UPC: 809478071938. Language: English; Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch.

Mussorgsky sets the stage, managing to embody Mother Russia in his monumental tale of Nation and Tsar at an eventful turn in history. Two more texts by Pushkin see achingly lyrical realisations by Tchaikovsky, who first tells of the callous, young Eugene Onegin and his tragic story of illusion, disaffection and frustrated love, and then, in Pique Dame, of the soldier Hermann, who is obsessed with the aristocratic Lisa and with coaxing a winning secret from her gambling grandmother, the Queen of Spades. In Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, his finest work for the stage, the master orchestrator spins a supernatural tale with the mystical flavour and steady unfolding of a legend of redemption, while Shostakovich runs the gamut of love, lust, power and oppression in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a drama exploring the shadowy boundaries between victim and perpetrator. Orlin Anastassov, Bo Skovhus, Ewa Podles and Eva-Maria Westbroek shine in the title roles, as does Svetlana Ignatovich as the forest maiden Fevronia, in vivid, opulent productions from De Nederlanse Opera and Barcelona's Liceu.