Russian Opera Classics - Naxos Deutschland

With Boris Godunov Mussorgsky sets the stage, managing to embody Mother Russia in his monumental tale of Nation and Tsar at an eventful turn in history. Two more texts by Pushkin see achingly lyrical realisations by Tchaikovsky, who first tells of the callous, young Eugene Onegin and his tragic story of illusion, disaffection and frustrated love, and then, in Pique Dame, of the soldier Hermann, who is obsessed with the aristocratic Lisa and with coaxing a winning secret from her gambling grandmother, the Queen of Spades. In Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, his finest work for the stage, the master orchestrator spins a supernatural tale with the mystical flavour and steady unfolding of a legend of redemption, while Shostakovich runs the gamut of love, lust, power and oppression in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a drama exploring the shadowy boundaries between victim and perpetrator.Orlin Anastassov, Bo Skovhus, Ewa Podles and Eva-Maria Westbroek shine in the title roles, as does Svetlana Ignatovich as the forest maiden Fevronia, in vivid, opulent productions from De Nederlanse Opera and Barcelona’s Liceu.

Conductor: Mariss Jansons

Stage Director: Martin Kusej

Artistic Company: De Nederlandse Opera; Fundacio Gran Teatre del Liceu

Artists:
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Misha Didyk
Orlin Anastassov
Alessandra Marianelli
Bo Skovhus

Composer: Shostakovich (LM); Tchaikovsky (Pique Dame, Eugene Onegin); Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov); Rimsky-Korsakov (Kitezh)

Sound: Dolby Stereo; LPCM stereo; DTS Surround

Subtitles: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, NE