Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii (Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)

Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich

Librettist/Text Author: Belsky, Vladimir Nikolayevich

Conductor: Vedernikov, Alexander

Orchestra: Cagliari Teatro Lirico Orchestra

Chorus: Cagliari Teatro Lirico Chorus

Chorus Master: Fogliazza, Fulvio

Bedyay: Gilmanov, Valery

Burunday: Naumenko, Alexander

Fevronya: Monogarova, Tatiana

Fyodor Poyarok: Hakobyan, Gevorg

Grishka Kuterma: Gubsky, Mikhail

Hereditary prince Vsevolod Yuryevich: Panfilov, Vitaly

Notable: Floris, Gianluca

Notable: Kalbus, Marek

Page: Gulordava, Marika

Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich: Kazakov, Mikhail

Set Designer: Nekrosius, Marius

Costume Designer: Gultiayeva, Nadezhda

Lighting Designer: Jankauskas, Audrius

Stage Director: Nekrosius, Eimuntas

Television Director: Ricchetti, Matteo

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Venue: Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

Playing Time: 03:07:42

Catalogue Number: 2.110277-78

UPC: 747313527755

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The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army's entry to the Great Kitezh and the city's subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that is contemporary and even fairly advanced. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer's rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.