Sergei Romanov, Sergei Alexashkin, Valery Gergiev, Larisa Dyadkova, Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre & Sergei Semishkur
Shchedrin - Dead Souls
Video Director: Henning Kasten - Artist: Sergei Romanov, Sergei Alexashkin, Valery Gergiev, Larisa Dyadkova, Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre & Sergei Semishkur - Soloist: Sergei Romanov, Sergei Alexashkin, Larisa Dyadkova & Sergei Semishkur - Conductor: Valery Gergiev - Stage Director: Vasily Barkhatov - Orchestra: Orchestra of the Mariinksy Theatre
Shchedrin - Dead Souls
Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre stages Rodion Shchedrin’s 1976 opera Dead Souls. This opera, one of the indisputable operatic masterpieces of the 20th century, is inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s satirical 1842 novel of the same name. Shchedrin (*1932) premiered Dead Souls at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1977. More than 30 years after the opera’s first run, a brand new, bright and expressive staged version sees its premiere at Saint Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre in 2012, conducted by Valery Gergiev in and directed by Vasily Barkhatov.