Orpheus... The Internal Carnival of Love and Death

Musical-Poetic Collage
Music : E. Fomin

Script by Natalya Chernikova
Idea and production by Peoples Artist of Russia, Yuri Alexandrov

Following its traditions Saint-Petersburg Opera theatre once again turns to a little-known nowadays work. The first Russian melodrama Orpheus by E. Fomin based on Y. Knyazhin lyrics had been a great success in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg on the turn of the 19^th century but was later forgotten. Orpheus is distinguished by an unusual musical form. It has almost no integral action; it consists of multiple heterogeneous episodes which allowed its stage producers  to create their own work where emotional expression of the heroes is directly connected with certain musical intonations. This project by Yuri Alexandrov supposes his characteristic poetic convention, metaphor and polyphony. The Word exquisitely interacts with the Music, the metaphors being unpredictable allowing to intrigue the sophisticate audience…