Gianandrea Noseda
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Gabriel Faurè considered Umberto Giordano's Siberia to be one of the most interesting and singular works of the early 20th century. The opera's tragic narrative follows Prince Alexis's courtesan Stephana. She falls in love with an innocent soldier, Vassili, who is sent to Siberia for killing the Prince. Stephana gives up her life of luxury to follow him but cannot escape her past. With its intensely Russian atmosphere and passionately soaring melodies,...
3) Prince Igor
Series
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Russian
Description
For the first time in nearly 100 years Borodin's defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the MET for the first time with a Slavic, Russophone cast. Sung in Russian.