Organization

Дирижер

Sebastian Weigle

Режиссер-постановщик

Christof Loy

Художник-постановщик

Johannes Leiacker

Художник по костюмам

Ursula Renzenbrink

Художник по свету

Olaf Winter

Хормейстер

Tilman Michael

Видеодизайнер

Myriam Hoyer

Певец

Меццо-сопрано

Bianca Andrew

Царица

Бас

Alexey Tikhomirov

Чуб

Сопрано

Julia Muzychenko

Оксана

Enkelejda Shkoza

Солоха

Баба с фиолетовым носом

Тенор

Georgy Vasiliev

Кузнец Вакула

Бас-баритон

Anthony Robin Schneider

Панас

Peter Marsh

Дьяк Осип Никифорович

Баритон

Sebastian Geyer

Голова

Thomas Faulkner

Пацюк

Andrei Popov

Чёрт

Barbara Zechmeister

Баба с обыкновенным носом

Oper Frankfurt

Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Others

Choir of the Frankfurt Opera

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The Night before Christmass

Франкфурт-на-Майне

Германия

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve is a satirical-realistic depiction of Ukrainian village life combined with fantastic and mythological elements. It is a feast of villagers' Christmas songs, lyrical arias, buffo scenes and dance numbers set to orchestral interludes. The relationship between man and nature, between the individual and the cosmos is at the centre of the opera. Rimsky-Korsakov himself wrote the libretto based on Gogol's story of the same name. As an avowed pantheist, the composer saw nature as an image of the divine - and thus as something absolutely worth preserving. He added mythological elements of pagan folk belief; he has stars dancing in the sky and the apparition of human-looking sun gods. The composer shows the meaningfulness and beauty of a cosmos in whose biological and seasonal rhythms human beings are suspended - in this production quite literally. Directed by Christof Loy and conducted by Sebastian Weigle, this rendition of Christmas Eve won OpernWelt’s Production of the Year 2021/22.