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Ruslan and Lyudmila (Mariinsky Theatre, opera) - 28 March 2024 at 19:00

Ruslan and Lyudmila (Mariinsky Theatre, opera)

Mariinsky (ex. Kirov) Ballet and Opera Theatre​ More info | Price: 131.93 - 277.06 USD

Genre: Opera Language: Russian (English supertitles) Age restriction: 6+ Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Intermissions: 3 Opening night: 1994

 

Credits


Music by Mikhail Glinka
Libretto by Mikhail Glinka, Konstantin Bakhturin, Alexander Shakhovskoi, Valerian Shirkov, Mikhail Gedeonov, Nestor Kukolnik and Nikolai Markevich after the poem by Alexander Pushkin
Decorations are restored from the 1904 version of the performance by Alexander Golovin and Konstantin Korovin
Choreography by Michel Fokine, 1917 production

Stage Director: Lotfi Mansouri
Set Design: Thierry Bosquet
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva

Artists


Lyudmila: Zhanna Dombrovskaya
Ruslan: Edward Tsanga
Ratmir: Zlata Bulycheva
Farlaf: Gennady Bezzubenkov
Gorislava: Tatiana Pavlovskaya
Finn: Viktor Lutsyuk
Bayan: Yury Marusin

World Premiere: 27 November (9 December) 1842, Bolshoi Theatre, St Petersburg
Premiere of this production: 1994, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Act I 
At the court of Svetozar, Prince of Kiev, celebrations are in progress before the marriage of his daughter, Lyudmila, to Ruslan, a warrior. The Bayan (a minstrel) sings of the trials in store for Ruslan, though he predicts the victory of true love. Nostalgically, Lyudmila bids farewell to her parent’s home, and consoles her unsuccessful suitors, the eastern prince Ratmir and the Varangian warrior Farlaf. Suddenly all darkens: when light is restored, Lyudmila has vanished. 
Svetozar promises her hand and half his kingdom to the  one who rescues her.

Act II 
In  his cave, Finn, a good magician, reveals to Ruslan that Lyudmila’s abductor is the dwarf Chernomor (whose strength lies in his enormously long beard) and warns Ruslan against the evil enchantress Naina. The scene changes to a deserted place where Naina instructs a very frightened Farlaf to wait at home; she will help him defeat Ruslan and gain Lyudmila. Finally on a deserted battlefield Ruslan reaffirms hisresolve, then defeats a gigantic head and draws a sword from beneath; the head explains he is Chernomor’s brother and one of his victims, and that the sword’s magic can defeat the dwarf.

Act III 
In Naina’s enchanted palace her maidens are directing their allure at a travel-weary Ratmir, to the distress of his slave, Gorislava, who loves him. 
Ruslan appears and is smitten with Gorislava, but Finn intervenes and breaks the seductive spell, uniting Ratmir and Gorislava, and all set out to rescue Lyudmila.

Act IV 
Confined in  Chernomor’s enchanted garden, Lyudmila voices her despair and defiance, rejecting her captor’s blandishments. At Ruslan’s approach Chernomor casts a  spell over her and goes out to fight with Ruslan. Chernomor’s followers observe the offstage encounter, in which Ruslan catches hold of Chernomor’s beard, then cuts it off. Triumphantly he returns onstage with it, but is in despair when he finds Lyudmila in an enchanted sleep. He decides to take her back to Kiev.

Act V 
Ratmir sings of his love for Gorislava. Farlaf abducts Lyudmila and speeds to Kiev. 
Meanwhile Finn gives Ratmir a magic ring that will waken Lyudmila. In Kiev Farlaf cannot rouse her but when Ruslan arrives with Ratmir he breaks the spell with the aid of the ring. General rejoicing.

 

Mariinsky (ex. Kirov) Ballet and Opera Theatre playbill


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