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03 July 2019 (Wed), 19:00 Chamber Stage Boris Pokrovsky Theatre on Nikolskaya Street - Opera Alexander Zhurbin "The Pretty Demon" Opera in two acts. Adults only (18+)

Running time: 3 hours (till 22:00)


Schedule for Alexander Zhurbin "The Pretty Demon" Opera in two acts. Adults only (18+) 2022

Composer: Alexander Zhurbin

Opera in 2 acts

Performed in Russian

Premiere of this production: 19 June 2015, Chamber Stage of Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre, Moscow, Russia

Fantasia on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Sologub 

Libretto by Valery Semenovsky and Alexander Zhurbin based on the play Beast by Valery Semenovsky 

 

Stage Director: Georgy Isahakyan 

Music Director: Vladimir Agronsky 

Set Designer: Stepan Zograbyan 

Costume Designer: Natalia Voynova 

Lighting Designer: Evgeny Ganzburg 

 

The Petty Demon attempted to create a description of poshlost', a Russian concept that has characteristics of both evil and banality. The antihero is a provincial schoolteacher, Peredonov, notable for his complete lack of redeeming human qualities. The novel recounts the story of the morally corrupt Peredonov going insane and paranoid in an unnamed Russian provincial town, parallel with his struggle to be promoted to governmental inspector of his province. The omniscient third-person narrative allowed Sologub to combine his Symbolist tendencies and the tradition of Russian Realism in which he engaged throughout his earlier novels, a style similar to Maupassant's fantastic realism.

Realistic elements of The Petty Demon include a vivid description of 19th-century rural everyday life, while a fantastic element is the presentation of Peredonov's hallucinations on equal terms with external events. While the book was received as an indictment of Russian society, it is a very metaphysical novel and one of the major prose works of the Russian Symbolist movement. James H. Billington said of it:

The book puts on display a Freudian treasure chest of perversions with subtlety and credibility. The name of the novel's hero, Peredonov, became a symbol of calculating concupiscence for an entire generation... He torments his students, derives erotic satisfaction from watching them kneel to pray, and systematically befouls his apartment before leaving it as part of his generalized spite against the universe.







Schedule for Alexander Zhurbin "The Pretty Demon" Opera in two acts. Adults only (18+) 2022


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