Rimsky Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride

Anatoli Kotscherga (Vasily Sobakin), Olga Peretyatko (Marfa), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Grigory Gryaznoy), Tobias Schabel (Grigory Malyuta-Skuratov), Pavel Cernoch (Ivan Lykov), Anita Rachvelishvili (Lyubasha)

Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

A revolving set and video wizardry, including dappled sunlight outside Marfa's home, keep the action flowing smoothly, in pin-sharp picture quality…Olga Peretyatko is an adorable Marfa, her bright... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2015
Catalogue No: BAC105
Label: Bel Air Classiques

Rimsky Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride

sung in Russian
Anatoli Kotscherga (Vasily Sobakin), Olga Peretyatko (Marfa), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Grigory Gryaznoy), Tobias Schabel (Grigory Malyuta-Skuratov), Pavel Cernoch (Ivan Lykov), Anita Rachvelishvili (Lyubasha), Stephan Rügamer (Bomelius), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Domna Saburova), Anna Lapkovskaya (Dunyasha) & Carola Höhn (Petrovna)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim

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Stage direction, Set design Dmitri Tcherniakov

Enregistrement HD / HD recording: Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin - 10/2013

The argument is based on an historical case. In the suburbs of Moscow, reigned around 1571 Tsar Ivan IV, 'the Terrible'. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife for the third time. He chooses the young Marfa; she loves another man but bends to the will of the Tsar and renounces her love. From this starting plot, the Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov retains only the frame. A live competition is organised for a virtual monarch like in a reality show called «Joe Millionaire » where competitors attempt to marry a rich man. Here, the characters become the various players of the audiovisual industry bringing an acerbic criticism of contemporary TV.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin, with Olga Peretyatko, Anita Rachvelishvili and Johannes Martin Kränzle. Recorded at Staatsoper, Im Schiller Theater Berlin, in October 2013.

1 DVD DIGIPACK Running time 152 min

Booklet FR / ENG / DE, Subtitles FR / ENG / DE

16/9, NTSC, Sound Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1

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November 2015

A revolving set and video wizardry, including dappled sunlight outside Marfa's home, keep the action flowing smoothly, in pin-sharp picture quality…Olga Peretyatko is an adorable Marfa, her bright timbre and easily floated top notes making her the picture of teenage innocence…Barenboim conducts a weighty account of Rimsky's score, played by the plush sounding Staatskapelle Berlin.

8th January 2016

Barenboim’s treatment of the score is clean and transparent, just right for Rimsky’s “Italianate” opera.

June 2016

As Gryaznoy, the genius producer of the (false) media events we see created, Johannes Martin Kränzle offers an intense, closely observed performance, his baritone suitably macho and strong. Not quite idiomatic in pronunciation, he nonetheless shades the text subtly...the volcanic Anita Rachvelishvili offers the finest singing and most detailed work I’ve experienced from her.

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