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An Opera Based on Stories by Y U Ry Mamleev and Anton Chekhov an Opera Based on Stories by Yury Mamleev and Anton Chekhov Deputy Director for Construction and Operations – Sergei Kotov Workshop Director – Oleg Kochukov Director, Artistic and Production Department – Natalya Avdonina Workshop Carpenter – Yevgeny Fyodorets Deputy Directors, Artistic and Production Department – Set Engineer – Tatyana Kudryavtseva An opera based on stories Alexandra Alexeev, Alexei Naumov Head of Production Department – Tatyana Khvorostyanaya by Yury Mamleev and Anton Chekhov Director, Sound Department – Alexander Mikhlin Company Manager – Nina Firsova PROSE Sound Engineers – Polina Beletskaya, Anastasia Khlystova Company Superintendent – Iraida Levandovskaya Director, Lighting Department – Mikhail Klimov First Deputy Director – Vladimir Povarnitsyn Composed and directed by Vladimir Rannev Performed by: Lighting Engineers – Artur Alenko, Vadim Gorbachyov, Deputy Artistic Director for International relations – Irina Tokareva Designed by Marina Alexeeva N’Caged ensemble: Sergei Malinin, Dmitry Matvienko, Olga Rossini, Natalia Kudryavtseva, Alexei Papkov, Konstantin Slabospitsky, Manager of International Department – Anna Isakova Lighting designed by Sergei Vasilyev Arina Zvereva / Alyona Parfyonova; Stanislavsky Electrotheatre chorus: Pavel Taran Deputy Artistic Director for Strategic Development – Musical director: Arina Zvereva Alina Gorina, Alyona Kakhuta, Tatyana Perevalova, Maria Menshenina, Video – Konstantin Vyuev, Vladislav Zinovyev, Vera Malysheva, Gleb Aleinikov Ilona Bul, Alyone Fyodorova, Yelena Byrkina Taras Khvorstyany Manager, Communications, Media and Development – Director, Set Department – Sergei Lychkaty Alexandra Gavrish Prose is based on texts by Yury Mamleev and Anton Chekhov, whom the creators of this opera consider to be two of the harshest, most Set Engineers – Mikhail Aksyonov, Artur Altybarmakyan, Communications, Media and Development Team – uncompromising writers in the 150 year tradition of Russian realism. A full century separates the times in which they worked, but their manner of Viktor Belozyorov, VIktor Kuznetsov, Vadim Marenkov, Ivan Nikitin, Virsavia Alexeeva, Yulia Kulagina, Alyona Malykhina, Anna Khaibullina exploring human nature and social relationships is timely even today – or, to be exact, is especially timely today. Composer Vladimir Rannev Alexander Ryabov, Pavel Slichenko, Nikolai Titaev, Kirill Churin Editor – Kristina Matvienko interprets Yury Mamleev’s story “The Bridegroom (1980), and fragments of Chekhov’s story “The Steppe (1888) as different stages in the Props Shop Director – Irina Orlova English translation – John Freedman development of a single story. The former is an example of “cruel” prose, the latter is meditative and virtually event-free. Props Handler – Alexander Smorodov Press Attache – Maria Nikitina Mamleev’s story is simultaneously the hyper-realistic and phantasmagorical exploration of an incident that occurs in a common Russian family, Director, Make Up Department – Ksenia Gorcheva Photographers – Andrei Bezukladnikov, Olympia Orlova changing it radically and incontrovertibly. Make Up Artists – Asya Artyukhina, Valeria Demenskaya, Designer – Anton Grositsky Alexander Kozlov, Angelina Levichev, Natalia Chekheneva, Head Administrator – Olga Chaplygina The boy Yegorushka, the hero of Chekhov’s “The Steppe,” is traveling to be raised by distant relatives. He is thrilled by the natural world surrounding him, but is already preparing for the discovery of a new, alien and terrifying world – the world of people. Veronika Cheryomisina, Tatiana Chuiko Administrators – Pavel Barel, Semyon Poluyanov, Ariadna Popova Costume Shop Director – Valeria Zorina Shoemaker – Yevgeny Kobets We see before us a single person, captured at different moments in his life, as if Chekhov and Mamleev had written about one and the same life, Costumers – Anastasia Bezkorovainaya, Leila Karelina, Set Production – IP Dmitry Dovchenko and the very same anxieties. The different types of texts give rise to a tension that dictates a principal difference in the way they are presented. In Ksenia Minochkina, Olga Mordvinova, Kristina Starostina Special thanks for the optics system to Sergei Karlov turn, this gives rise to the dramaturgical nature of the opera, and helps reveal to the viewer a statement about the complex nature of the Dressmaking Shop Director – Olga Alexandrova relationships among people in contemporary society. Deputy Director, Dressmaking Shop – Tatyana Abramova Chief Set Designer – Stepan Lukyanov Technological Designer – Olga Roslova Chief Choreographer – Andrei Kuznetsov-Vecheslov Assistant Director: Alexander Belousov Tailor’s Cutters – Olga Kozhevnikova, Alexandra Romanova Musical Director – Dmitri Kourliandski Director’s Assistants: Alexandra Atamanchuk, Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes Tailors – Olga Dorina, Natalya Guseva, Alina Kadyrova, Managing Director – Irina Zolina Tatyana Khvorostyanaya First night: November 20, 2017, Natalya Kashitsina, Viktoria Moskvina, Maya Pechyonkina, Chief Designer – Anastasia Nefyodova Production Manager: Varvara Pushkarskaya at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow Marina Sakhnova, Irina Kharitonova Artistic Director – Boris Yukhananov "Vladimir Rannev, one of Russia’s leading composers, has worked Yury Mamleev (1931–2015) in the realm of theatre for years: in 2012, he produced his own Writer, poet, playwright, and philosopher who belongs to the opera Two Acts, based on a libretto by Dmitry Alexandrovich "metaphysical realists." He was a prominent figure of the unofficial Prigov, while even in purely instrumental works he consistently culture in the Soviet Union. He published his works in samizdat in experiments with theatrical discourse. In his fourth opera, Rannev this Soviet period. In 1974, he emigrated to the United States, then acts as librettist working with texts by Mamleev and Chekhov, as to Paris, returning to Russia in the early 1990s where he began the author of musical scores for eight a capella voices, and as the publishing his work with Russian publishers. Mamleev's works production’s director. Prose already has the look of an exemplary were translated into many languages. He continues the literary product of contemporary art wherein the artist intentionally traditions of Gogol and Dostoevsky, in particular by means of his refuses to limit the scope of his activities to a single specialization deep immersion in the metaphysics of Russian life. - but uses the widest possible range of accessible artistic means to express what he has to say, extending his author's will to all Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) elements of the finished theatrical product." Russian prose writer and playwright. One of the most produced Dmitry Renansky playwrights in the world. His story "The Steppe" was first published in 1888 in the journal Northern Herald (Severny Vestnik). In a letter to Dmitry Grigorovich, Chekhov expressed the hope that his story "will open the eyes of my peers and show them what wealth, what reservoirs of beauty, are still intact, and how unrestrained the Russian artist still can be." Vladimir Rannev Sergei Vasilyev Composer Lighting designer Graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg where he studied composition with Boris Tishchenko. He also studied at He has designed the lighting for performances at Praktika (Agatha Returns Home, and Grace and Fortitude), Theater of Nations (Three Days the Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne with Hans Ulrich Humpert. Rannev is a recipient of the Gartow Stiftung scholarship (Germany, 2002) and a in Hell), Stanislavsky Electrotheater (The Visit), and the Dmitry Krymov Laboratory. He is the laureate of a Golden Mask award for Best Lighting Muse of St. Petersburg grant (Russia, 2003). He was a winner of the Salvatore Martirano Award of the University of Illinois (U.S., 2009) and the Design (Exhibit/Awake, Alexandrinsky Theatre, 2015). Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award (Switzerland, 2010). His opera Two Acts was awarded the Sergei Kuryokhin Grand-Prix (2013). His opera Drillalians (Episode V) was nominated for a Golden Mask award in 2016. Arina Zvereva Rannev’s music has been performed by various ensembles, including the Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Conservatory Opera and Ballet Musical director Theatre, The Smolny Cathedral Chorus, the Studio for New Music, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Questa musica ensemble, Choirmaster, artistic director of the N’Caged vocal ensemble. Among her credits are Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, The Wedding by N’Caged (Russia), Nostri Temporis (Ukraine), Orkest de Volharding, the Amstel Quartet (The Netherlands), the Singakademie Oberhausen and Stravinsky, Gereven by Vladimir Nikolaev, Medea. Material by Pascal Dusapin, and German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. With Theodore Cantus Domus choirs (Germany), Ums ‘n Jip, KontraTrio, Ensemble Phoenix Basel and Ensemble Proton Bern (Switzerland). Currentzis and the MusicAeterna orchestra and chorus she took part in the studio recordings of Cosi fan tutte and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro on Sony Classical label. As a musical director and conductor, she has collaborated with the Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music He is a member of the StRes (Structure Resistance) group of composers, and teaches at St. Petersburg State University. (MASM). She is the founder and artistic director of N'Caged vocal ensemble. She has been choirmaster at Stanislavsky Electotheatre since 2013. Marina Alexeeva N’Caged ensemble Designer The ensemble’s chief goal is to perform contemporary music. Its projects include: Monster Is Not Singing Anymore by Alexandra
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