Organization

Stage director

Jürgen Flimm

Mara Kurotschka

Conductor

Mikahail Tatarnikov

Lighting designer

Alexander Kibitkin

Sebastian Alphons

Costume designer

Ursula Kudrna

Set designer

George Tsypin

Video designer

Robert Pflanz

Chorus master

Vladimir Stolpovskikh

Alexey Dmitriev

Sergey Tsyplenkov

Pianist

Natalia Dudik

Translator

Margarita Kunitsyna-Tankevich

Assistant Conductors

Igor Tomashevsky

Valentin Bogdanov

Assistant to Stage Director

Yulia Prokhorova

Assistant to Stage Designer

Polina Liefers

Assistant to Costume Designer

Julia Harttung

Consultant in the Italian language

Daria Mitrofanova

Singer

Soprano

Anastasia Barun

Manon Lescaut

Tenor

Fyodor Ataskevich

The knight René Des Grieux

Baritone

Boris Pinkhasovich

Lescaut

Bass

Anton Petryaev

Geronte de Revoir

Damir Zаkirov

Edmond

Ekaterina Egorova

Madrigal (solo)

Svetlana Monchak

Madrigal

Aleksandra Sennikova

Anna Buslidze

Irina Mikhailova

Alevtina Ioffe

Directed by the play

Olga Kokh

Elena Piskunova

Anna Nalbandyants

Mikhailovsky Theatre

Italian

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Mikhailovsky Theater

Manon Lescaut Puccini

Public

Russian

Approved

опера в 3-х действияхмузыка Джакомо Пуччинипостановка Юргена Флимма opera in three actsmusic by Giacomo Pucciniproduction by Jürgen Flimm

The opera Manon Lescaut is one of the best works of Giacomo Puccini.

Staged in 1893 in Turin, it became the composer's first and undoubted triumph. The libretto is based on a plot from Antoine Francois Prevost's book The Story of the Chevalier de Grieux and Manon Lescaut, one of the first examples of a psychological novel in the history of literature, which was very popular in Europe.

The creators of the performance at the Mikhailovsky Theater, stage director Jurgen Flimm and stage designer Georgy Tsypin, kept the scene - Paris, but changed the time and moved the events to the first third of the twentieth century. In their stage version, the heroine is an aspiring film actress, her lover is also an actor, and her wealthy patron is a Hollywood producer.

The scenography of the performance is close to the film noir style with characteristic light contrasts and dramatic shadows. Stage costumes directly refer to the cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. The emotional content remains unchanged, which the director defines with a brief formula: “A woman between two men and, as a result, a catastrophe.”

English

Manon Lescaut by Puccini, From (2021/2022), Directed by Jürgen Flimm, Mara Kurotschka,, Conductor Mikahail Tatarnikov, Alevtina Ioffe, Mikhailovsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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