Opera Giacomo Puccini "GIANNI SCHICCHI" Jacques Offenbach "A DINNER PARTY WITH ITALIANS" Moscow theatre "New Opera"
Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes
The performance has 1 intermission
Schedule for Giacomo Puccini "GIANNI SCHICCHI" Jacques Offenbach "A DINNER PARTY WITH ITALIANS" 2022
Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra of the "New Opera" Theatre
Giacomo Puccini GIANNI SCHICCHI
Comic opera Conductor Dmitry Volosnikov Stage DirectorGennady Shaposhnikov Designer Victor Gerasimenko Running time: 0 hours 50 minuteswith no intermission Premiered on 31 January 2009 Recommended for 12+ This production was given a Special Award from the musical theatre jury of the Golden Mask national theatrical prize of the 2009/2010 season. Giacomo Puccini completed his comic opera Gianni Schicchi in 1918. The scene is set in Florence in 1299. Buoso Donati, a rich old man, is on his deathbed and wants to leave all his money to the local monastery. The heirs want to take possession of Buoso’s property by dishonest action and call for help Gianni Schicchi, whose daughter, Lauretta, is engaged to the rich man’s nephew. Disguised as Buoso, the cheat Schicchi forges the will in his own favour and gives his blessing to his daughter’s marriage.
Gennady Shaposhnikov, director of the Gianni Schicchi production:
“Imagine two young loving people (Rinuccio and Lauretta), who are sincere, pure and unselfish. But their milieu is their polarity. They are greedy, unscrupulous people, seeking to lay hands on the property of their rich relative, Buoso. Thus, there are two poles in the story, with love on the one pole and spiritual death on the other. This subject can be interpreted as drama or tragedy. In our case the vice will be punished jocularly – a cheat outwits other cheats. But the opera is not about how to cheat more cleverly. Gianni Schicchi got involved in sharing out the money only because he wanted to punish greed and to help love. So, when people ask me what this opera is about, I always answer that it is about unmercenary love”.
Jacques Offenbach A DINNER PARTY WITH ITALIANS
Operetta (M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le…) Conductors Vasily Valitov,Dmitry Volosnikov,Nikolay Vinokurov Stage DirectorGennady Shaposhnikov Designer Victor Gerasimenko Running time: 1 hourwith no intermission Premiered on 16 January 2011 Recommended for 12+ In his A Dinner Party with Italians, Offenbach, a joker, parodied the style and devices of the bel canto opera. And there is a purpose in that. By a strange quirk of fate a loving couple and the girl’s father, who is constantly trying to intervene with their happiness, have to perform the roles of touring Italian singers. But it is this fraud 'Italian' concert that helps to fill in the generation gap and to unite the loving hearts. The operetta is full of funny situations, disguises and trickery.
Gennady Shaposhnikov, director of the A Dinner Party with Italiansproduction:
“Inviting guests for a festive performance by Italian singers and a dinner party is just an excuse for M. Choufleuri to show off his daughter. And the Italian singers were supposed to be the main decoy to attract potential husbands. Victor Gerasimenko, the set and costume designer of the production, and I have decided to use the already existing sets of the Gianni Schicchiproduction. It is just that another story fits very well in the interesting and functional box set. And that story is A Dinner Party with Italians. But the interior design and costumes will be different. All changes are justified by the position of the main character M. Choufleuri, a bourgeois gentleman”.
Schedule for Giacomo Puccini "GIANNI SCHICCHI" Jacques Offenbach "A DINNER PARTY WITH ITALIANS" 2022
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