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Rimsky-Korsakov - The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh | Naxos - Opera 866028890

Rimsky-Korsakov - The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

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Label: Naxos - Opera

Cat No: 866028890

Barcode: 0730099028875

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 27th February 2012

Contents

Artists

Mikhail Kazakov
Vitaly Panfilov
Tatiana Monogarova
Mikhail Gubsky
Albert Schagidullin
Alexander Naumenko
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

Conductor

Alexander Vedernikov

Works

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

Artists

Mikhail Kazakov
Vitaly Panfilov
Tatiana Monogarova
Mikhail Gubsky
Albert Schagidullin
Alexander Naumenko
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

Conductor

Alexander Vedernikov

About

The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army’s entry to Great Kitezh and the city’s subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that “is contemporary and even fairly advanced”. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer’s rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.

From 2001 until 2009 Alexander Vedernikov was Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre. Under his direction, the orchestra of the Bolshoi toured extensively, including Athens, Hamburg and Paris in February 2008, and for a season of opera and ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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