Music fantasy based on Glinka’s opera and Pushkin’s poem in
two parts
Musical version by
Evgeny
Kolobov
Conductors
Nikolay Sokolov, Evgeny
Samoilov
Director and Choreographer
Ivan
Fadeyev
Set and Costume Designer
Victor
Gerasimenko
Choirmasters
Natalya Popovich, Marina Vasilkova,
Victor Kuturaev
Lighting Designer
Sergey
Shevchenko
Running time: 2 hours 35 minutes with one
intermission
Premiered on 15 December 2005
As if with a wave of a magic wand, the audience will be
transported to “the things of days, in Lithe gone, the legends of the past
obscure …”
The tender love of Ruslan and Lyudmila is in the hands of evil and
kind magicians, who will surprise the audience with miraculous metamorphoses:
“there visions fill a vale and forest… there are the strangest creatures’
traces.” The evil dwarf Chernomor will separate the loving couple at the happy
moment of their wedding, but the sage Finn’s prophecy will be fulfilled и the
treacherous sorcerer will be defeated.
The production of Ruslan and Lyudmila gave birth to the
Novaya Opera Theatre in 1991, when Evgeny Kolobov’s musical version of the
opera was first performed at a music festival in Perugia (Italy). For years
afterwards, the fantasia was shown in many cities in Russia and abroad and even
won the “Week Star” theatrical award given by the German newspaper Abendzeitung
during the theatre’s tour in Germany. In the season of 2005–2006, Novaya Opera
produced a new staging of this version of Ruslan and Lyudmila. The
production is dedicated to Evgeny Kolobov.