The Falcon

Comic opera in two scenes
Music : Dmitry Bortnyansky

Libretto : Franz-Hermann Lafermierre, revised by Yuri Alexandrov

(6 characters & 19 musicians)
Staged by Yuri Alexandrov
Premiere: 26 June 1987

This work embodies the genre of "salon opera" of the 18th century, where light-hearted irony meets with true admiration of contemporary Theatre in the operatic style of old Petersburg…