Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City Of Kitezh Poster

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City Of Kitezh

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The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army's entry to Great Kitezh and the city's subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that 'is contemporary and even fairly advanced'. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer's rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.

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Eimuntas Nekrošius
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Mikhail Gubsky
Mikhail Gubsky
Grishka Kuterma
Mikhail Kazakov
Mikhail Kazakov
Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich
Gevorg Hakobyan
Gevorg Hakobyan
Fyodor Poyarok
Vitaly Panfilov
Vitaly Panfilov
Hereditary prince Vsevolod Yuryevich

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