Schedule for Kirill Molchanov - “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”. Concert rendition of the opera 2022

Conductor: Valery Polyansky
Orchestra: State Symphony Capella of Russia
Composer: Kirill Molchanov

The State Academic Symphony Capella of Russia
Artistic Director and Chief Conductor – Valery Polyansky

The opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet was commissioned in 2015 by the largest Chinese music theatre – National Centre for the Performing Arts – to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism. Librettist Wan Fang was chosen to adapt Boris Vasilyev’s novel of the same name for the theatre. According to Wan Fang herself, the tragic story of five female soldiers has truly shocked her; the feelings of sorrow, aversion to war and reverence for life she experienced while reading the novel were reflected in the libretto she was writing. The score was written by the famed Chinese composer Tang Jianping (born in 1955); he was charged with a difficult task of stylistically adapting Russian music (including songs of the Soviet times) while looking at them through the prism of Chinese musical and theatrical esthetics. The opera premiered in Beijing on 5 November, 2015.