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Rachmaninov: Troika
Kostas Smoriginas (Aleko), Sergey Semishkur (Young gipsy), Alexander Vassiliev (Old gipsy), Anna Nechaeva (Zemfira), Yaroslava Kozina (Gipsy woman), Sergei Leiferkus (Boris), Dmitry Golovnin (Dmitri), Ilya Silchukov (The Duke), Alexander Kravets (Money lender), Alexander Vassiliev (Servant), Dimitris...
Nechaeva [is] an appealingly sensuous Zemfira and Francesca, sturdy Greek baritones as jealous heavies Aleko and Lorenzaccio, and veteran Sergei Leiferkus excellent as the demented knight. Mikhail...
Rachmaninov: Troika
Kostas Smoriginas (Aleko), Sergey Semishkur (Young gipsy), Alexander Vassiliev (Old gipsy), Anna Nechaeva (Zemfira), Yaroslava Kozina (Gipsy woman), Sergei Leiferkus (Boris), Dmitry Golovnin (Dmitri), Ilya Silchukov (The Duke), Alexander Kravets (Money lender), Alexander Vassiliev (Servant), Dimitris...
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Nechaeva [is] an appealingly sensuous Zemfira and Francesca, sturdy Greek baritones as jealous heavies Aleko and Lorenzaccio, and veteran Sergei Leiferkus excellent as the demented knight. Mikhail...
About
Rachmaninov represents the waning of Romanticism in Russia yet, even by Russian standards, he was extremely fatalistic. His three one-act operas with libretti based on writings by Pushkin and Dante are linked by their theme: fate follows in the footsteps of sin, whether it be a matter of jealous murder, greed or illicit passion.
This triptych is a production of la Monnaie and is conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov and directed by Kirsten Dehlholm.
Booklet: FR / ENGL / NL
Artists
Kostas Smoriginas (Aleko), Sergey Semishkur (Young gipsy), Alexander Vassiliev (Old gipsy), Anna Nechaeva (Zemfira), Yaroslava Kozina (Gipsy woman), Sergei Leiferkus (Boris), Dmitry Golovnin (Dmitri), Ilya Silchukov (The Duke), Alexander Kravets (Money lender), Alexander Vassiliev (Servant), Dimitris Tiliakos (Lancelotto), Anna Nechaeva (Francesca), Sergey Semishkur (Paolo), Alexander Vassiliev (Virgil’s shade), Dmitry Golovnin (Dante)
Malatesta Dimitris Tiliakos & Orchestre symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie, Mikhail Tatarnikov
Contents and tracklist
- Kostas Smoriginas (Aleko), Sergey Semishkur (Young gipsy), Alexander Vassiliev (Old gipsy), Anna Nechaeva (Zemfira), Yaroslava Kozina (Gipsy woman)
- Malatesta Dimitris Tiliakos & Orchestre symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie
- Mikhail Tatarnikov
- Sergei Leiferkus (Boris), Anna Nechaeva (Francesca), Dmitry Golovnin (Dmitri), Ilya Silchukov (The Duke), Alexander Kravets (Money lender), Alexander Vassiliev (Servant)
- Malatesta Dimitris Tiliakos & Orchestre symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie
- Mikhail Tatarnikov
- Dimitris Tiliakos (Lancelotto), Anna Nechaeva (Francesca), Sergey Semishkur (Paolo), Alexander Vassiliev (Virgil’s shade), Dmitry Golovnin (Dante)
- Malatesta Dimitris Tiliakos & Orchestre symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie
- Mikhail Tatarnikov
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Awards and reviews
November 2016
Nechaeva [is] an appealingly sensuous Zemfira and Francesca, sturdy Greek baritones as jealous heavies Aleko and Lorenzaccio, and veteran Sergei Leiferkus excellent as the demented knight. Mikhail Tatarnikov conducts the Monnaie’s players with youthful vigour
November 2016
Rachmaninov’s ashen score to The Miserly Knight broods nicely under Mikhail Tatarnikov’s direction…[he] leads a muscular account of the score, although his groans are distracting. The Monnaie orchestra play with tremendous verve
January 2017
The three stagings, while certainly idiosyncratic, are often extraordinary in their impact, and in these confident interpretations, conducted with passion and commitment by Mikhail Tatarnikov, certainly act as worthwhile reminders of the outstanding quality of these little-known pieces.
