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TROIKA ALEKO, MISERLY KNIGHT, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI Composer: SERGEI RACHMANINOV ALEKO Librettist: VLADIMIR NEMIROVICH DANCHENKO, AFTER THE GYPSIES, ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Musical version: BOLSHOI THEATER, MOSKVA, 27/4/1893 Piano Score: BOOSEY & HAWKES Orchestra Score: BOOSEY & HAWKES THE MISERLY KNIGHT Librettist: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Musical version: BOLSHOI THEATER, MOSKVA, 11/1/1906 Piano score: EDITION RUSSE DE MUSIQUE VIA B & H Orchestra score: EDITION RUSSE DE MUSIQUE VIA B & H FRANCESCA DA RIMINI Librettist: MODEST TCHAIKOVSKY AFTER DANTE Musical version: BOLSHOI THEATER, MOSKVA, 11/1/1906 Piano score: BOOSEY & HAWKES Orchestra score: BOOSEY & HAWKES Timing: 1H/50MIN/1H – 3H40 INCLUDING 2 INTERMISSIONS Production by: THÉÂTRE ROYAL DE LAMONNAIE-DEMUNT Season: 2014/2015 Storage: BRUSSELS Premièred at Théâtre National for LaMonnaie-DeMunt on 16 June 2015 sets destroyed ; costumes and video available for rent and sale ARTISTIC TEAM Conductor: MIKHAIL TATARNIKOV Stage director: KIRSTEN DEHLHOLM (Hotel pro Forma) Co-director: JON R. SKULBERG Sets: MAJA ZISKA Costumes: MANON KÜNDIG Lighting: JESPER KONGSHAUG Video: MAGNUS PIND BJERRE Dramaturg: KRYSTIAN LADA CAST Aleko Principals: ♂:3 ♀:2 Chorus: ♂:22 ♀:18 The Miserly knight Principals: ♂:5 Chorus: 0 Francesca da Rimini Principals: ♂:4 ♀:1 Chorus: ♂:22 ♀:18 SCENERY/PROPS Number oF containers: 1 For costumes ORCHESTRA COSTUMES & MAKE UP Violin I: 12 Aleko Violin II: 11 Aleko: 1 Alto: 8 Young gipsy: 1 Cello: 7 Old gipsy: 1 Contrabass: 5 ZemFira: 1 Flute: 3 Gipsy woman: 1 Oboe: 3 Chorus: ♂:22 ♀:18 Bassoon: 2 Total: 45 / Wigs are part oF Clarinet: 3 costumes Horn: 4 Trumpet: 3 The Miserly knight Trombone: 3 Baron: 1 Tuba: 1 Albert, his son: 1 Timpani/Percussion: 4 The duke: 1 Harp-1 Money Lender: 1 Servant: 1 Music on stage: Total: 5 costumes Horn:2 Francesca da Rimini Trumpet:2 Lancelotto Malatesta:1 Francesca, his wiFe: 1 Total: 70 Paolo, his brother: 1 Virgil’s shade: 1 Dante: 1 Chorus ♂:22 ♀:18 Total: 45 costumes Total: 95 costumes Number oF dressers: 9 No wigs Number oF make-up artists: 9 STAFF Technical production manager: CÉCILE BOURGUET Costumes supervisor: NICOLE BAUER Make-up supervisor: BÉNÉDICTE PESSER Props supervisor: JEAN-MARC VAN DE WEGHE Lighting supervisor: KRIS NOERENS SOUND AND VIDEO SUPERVISOR: GEERT DE DEKEN Stage manager: THOMAS DESMED .

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