Sadko

Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich

Librettist/Text Author: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich

Conductor: Zangiev, Timur

Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra

Chorus: Bolshoi Theatre Chorus

Chorus Master: Borisov, Valery

Fife: Paster, Maxim

Foma Nazaryich: Muravitsky, Roman

His Wife: Durseneva, Aleksandra

His Wife: Rubtsova, Irina

Indian Merchant: Neklyudov, Alexey

Lubava Buslaevna: Semenchuk, Ekaterina

Luka Zinovyich: Komovich, Vladimir

Nezhata: Minenko, Yuri

Ocean-Sea, The Sea Tsar: Trofimov, Stanislav

Sadko: Mavlyanov, Nazhmiddin

Varangian Merchant: Ulianov, Dmitri

Venetian Merchant: Zhilikhovsky, Andrey

Vision of the old mighty Warrior: Murzaev, Sergey

Volkhova: Garifullina, Aida

Whistle: Petrenko, Mikhail

Set Designer: Tcherniakov, Dmitri

Costume Designer: Zaitseva, Elena

Lighting Designer: Filshtinsky, Gleb

Stage Director: Tcherniakov, Dmitri

Television Director: Sommer, Andy

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Date of Production: 02-2022

Venue: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

Playing Time: 03:05:35

Catalogue Number: BAC188

UPC: 3760115301887

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In the 13th century, the rich merchants of Novgorod mock the dreams of far-away journeys and of commercial conquests brought forth by Sadko, a musician and singer. But Volkhova, the Sea King's daughter, is enchanted by Sadko's voice, and promises to help him fulfill his dreams...

Sadko is a decisive work in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's aesthetic evolution. As in many operas, the composer draws his artistic material from Russian folk and fairytales, but also from old musical and poetic forms. The result is a prodigious opera, whose modernity - both dramatic and musical - erupts from the fabulous resources of traditional Russian epics, but also from the wonders of the marine universe, close to his former navigator self's heart.

A subtle analyst of the slavic soul, stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov comes back to the great stage of the Bolshoi Theater and devises a surprising production that perfectly underlines the ambiguities of this paradoxical opera, between past and present, fantasy and reality. He surrounds himself with magnificent Russian soprano Aida Garifullina, but also some of his favorite singers: Mikhail Petrenko, Ekaterina Semenchuk... In the pit and at the head of the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, young Russian conductor Timur Zangiev breathes in this little-know masterpiece all the energy, all the poetry, and all the passion it requires.