Rimsky Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia

Svetlana Ignatovich (Fevroniya), John Daszak (Grishka Kuterma), Vladimir Vaneev (Prince Yuriy Vsevolodovich), Maxim Aksenov (Prince Vsevolod Yuryevich), Ante Jerkunica (Bedyay), Vladimir Ognovenko (Burunday), Alexey Markov (Fyodor Poyarok) & Mayram Sokolova (Page)

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If the visual result negates the opera’s poetry, the musical performance provides compensation. Albrecht draws consistently brilliant orchestral playing and the chorus is excellent. — Financial Times, 8th February 2014 More…

Release Date: 6th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: OA1089D
Label: Opus Arte

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Rimsky Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia

Recorded live at the De Nederlandse Opera, February 2012
Svetlana Ignatovich (Fevroniya), John Daszak (Grishka Kuterma), Vladimir Vaneev (Prince Yuriy Vsevolodovich), Maxim Aksenov (Prince Vsevolod Yuryevich), Ante Jerkunica (Bedyay), Vladimir Ognovenko (Burunday), Alexey Markov (Fyodor Poyarok) & Mayram Sokolova (Page)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus of Netherlands Opera
Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)

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Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera is a fanciful fairytale, yet at the same time a parable on repression and political conceit. The peasant girl Fevroniya’s prayer that the city of Kitezh becomes invisible, thus protecting it from Tatar attack, is magically heeded. The girl herself, however, is captured by the invaders. The leitmotifs and highly expressive musical tone-painting tell the story, based on a pantheist world view, almost on their own. Grand crowd scenes contrast with a internal treatment similar to the music dramas of Richard Wagner. Marc Albrecht conducts the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the dramatic staging comes from the renowned Russian director, Dmitri Tcherniakov.

A fairy-tale opera: peasant girl Fevroniya dreams that the city of Kitezh would become invisible to save it from Tatar attack, and it magically comes true.

Lush, magical, highly engaging score – though rarely performed.

Conducted by Marc Albrecht with Netherlands Philharmonic on inspired form.

Starring Svetlana Ignatovich as Fevroniya “simply ravishing in the title role” (Opera Today).

Extra features: Interviews with cast and crew and a cast gallery.

Running time: 187 minutes

Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/DU/JA/KO

Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS

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Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus of Netherlands Opera, Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)

Reviews

8th February 2014

If the visual result negates the opera’s poetry, the musical performance provides compensation. Albrecht draws consistently brilliant orchestral playing and the chorus is excellent.

April 2014

This deeply felt production...is a significant step further in the internationalisation of the opera...The committed theatricality of the cast...goes far to making the production convincing on its own terms...[Ignatovich] sings without strain or fatigue. This could be a career-making performance.

June 2014

Purely musically this is a performance of overwhelming power, and no praise could be too high for the orchestral playing and the contribution of the double chorus under Marc Albrecht.

Opera Now

Tcherniakov’s Amsterdam production is superbly performed and filmed here...It is visually stunning and wonderfully acted. Marc Albrecht’s conducting helps hold the sprawling work together...Ignatovich delivers a deeply moving Fevroniya... The final scene alone should carry a warning – Tcherniakov’s inspired direction and Ignatovich’s profound innocence will make you weep.

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