Renard. Mavra

works by Igor Stravinsky

The performance will have synchronised Russian and English supertitles
 

Premiere of Renard staged by Bronislava Nijinska: 18 May 1922, The Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, Paris
Premiere of Mavra: 3 June 1922, The Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, Paris

Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 11 July 2021

Age category: 12+

Credits

RENARD
ballet
Music by Igor Stravinsky
libretto by the composer after Russian folk tales from the collection of Alexander Afanasiev
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Director and Choreographer: Maxim Petrov
Set Designer: Alyona Pikalova
Costume Designer: Uldus Bakhtiozina
Lighting Designer: Konstantin Binkin
Video Designer: Sergey Rylko
Animated characters designed by Yulia Gilchenok
Musical Preparation: Larisa Gergieva


MAVRA
opera
Music by Igor Stravinsky
libretto by Boris Kochno after the poem The Little House in Kolomna by Alexander Pushkin
accompanied by supertitles in Russian and in English
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Director and Choreographer: Maxim Petrov
Set Designer: Alyona Pikalova
Costume Designer: Uldus Bakhtiozina
Lighting Designer: Konstantin Binkin
Musical Preparation: Natalia Mordashova

Renard is an “histoire burlesque chantée et joée”. Even by fairytale standards, the plot is banal (a vixen abducts a cockerel and other animals save him) and, in general, has little meaning: the voices of the four singers are not determined by the characters. Line by line and word by word, when compiling the libretto from Russian folk tales Stravinsky was interested, first and foremost, in the phonetics and the rhythm of the text. Today, this text reminds us most of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky, while the tempo and energy of the musical presentation invokes rap.
Mavra is an opera based on Pushkin’s the Little House in Kolomna, a bridge between Russia and Europe: the score is indeed dedicated to the memory of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Glinka and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the three leading pro-western men in 19th century Russian art. Voices from a past that is beautiful – with urban romances, gypsy songs and Italian opera in a Russian format – sound like listening to an old record. (Stravinsky had actually found the sliding musical intonations so typical of Mavra in gramophone recordings, still very imperfect in the 1920s.) One hears voices of St Petersburg’s Kolomna district where Stravinsky grew up: the church bells of the St Nicholas Naval Cathedral and the marches of the army brass bands that were based in New Holland. Bogdan Korolyok


Alyona Pikalova (Set Designer) and Sergey Rylko (Video Designer) are laureates of the Russia’s national Golden Mask theatre award (2022) for the best work of an artist in a musical theatre.

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