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10 December
19:00
2017 | Sunday
Tours of "Ekaterina the Great" ensemble
Francesco Araja "Cephalus and Procris" (opera in 3 acts)
Opera
Artists Credits
Opera company
Alexander Vedernikov, Musical Director

Dating to 1755, it was the first opera written in the Russian language.

Araja composed the opera to a Russian libretto by Alexander Sumarokov after the Metamorphoses of Ovid.

Libretto by Alexander Sumarokov 

Artistic Director: Andrey Reshetin 
Director: Danila Vedernikov 
Choreographer: Klaus Abromeit 
Costume Designer: Larissa Pogoretskaya 

In cooperation with the “Baroque Ballet Angiolini” (Saint Petersburg)

Synopsis

The story of Cephalus and Prokris, who were ready to destroy their matrimonial vows and later happily forgive each other, thus far random tragic finale does not separate them (hunting Cephalus mistakenly pierces his wife with the spear) was transformed by Sumarokov into something quite different. His libretto is the story of devoted love and the tragic fate of two heroes. Being separated, they severely suffer and do not search for compromises. Cephalus, stolen directly from the wedding ceremony in the temple, rejects the love of the powerful goddess Aurora. But meanwhile Prokris, suffering from jealousy, is moving towards her inevitably death: Cephalus, aimed supposedly at the beast, mortally wounds his own wife.


Main Stage 1 Teatralnaya ploschad (1 Theatre Square), Moscow, Russia
New Stage Bol'shaya Dmitrovka Street, 4/2, Moscow, Russia
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