Name: Scenes from the life of Nikolenka Irteniev
Start: 2021-10-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre

Organization

Alina Mikhailik

Sonechka (Сонечка)

Roman Krukovich

Narrator (Рассказчик)

Alena Denisenko

Nikolenka (Николенька)

Dmitry Nelasov

Karl Ivanovich (Карл Иванович)

Stage director

Alexei Stepanuyk

Conductor

Larisa Gergieva

Set designer

Anna Soboleva

Lighting designer

Andrei Ponizovsky

Evgeny Mizin

Ilya Astafurov

Alexei Kostyuk

Anastasia Kikot

Mom (Маменька)

Svetlana Rozhok

Grandmother (Бабушка)

Maria Suzdaltseva

Assistant Stage Director

Ilya Ustiantsev

Singer

Olga Maslova

Pianist

Alexey Tikhomirov

Irina Kolodyazhnaya

Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre

Scenes from the life of Nikolenka Irteniev -  (Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irteniev)

Vladivostok

Russia

Small Hall

Public

Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irteniev

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Baritone

Countertenor

Contralto

Tenor

Bass

Bass-baritone

Soprano

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Scenes from the life of Nikolenka Irteniev

Концертная опера Сергея Баневича «Сцены из жизни Николеньки Иртеньева», как и вызвавшая её к жизни книга Толстого, предназначена и детям, и взрослым, в чьих душах не угас «свет детства». Она получилась камерной, интимной — трудно рассказать иначе о самом дорогом, волнительном, хрупком времени жизни.
Опера построена как ряд воспоминаний Рассказчика: дробное, похожее на киносценарий либретто Сергея Васильева выхватывает из тумана отдельные эпизоды толстовской повести. Совсем как в жизни — когда люди взрослеют, многое из прошлого забывается, и в душе сохраняются только самые большие потрясения детства. Действие скрепляют эпизоды-рефрены: вальс, который сестра Николеньки разучивает в соседней комнате; пасхальная народная песня; наивная молитва самого Николеньки: «Дай Бог счастья всем, чтобы все были довольны, и чтоб была хороша погода для гулянья».
Сцена бала с большим вальсом, бессонная ночь, даже реплика о первых весенних цветах — здесь многое напоминает о другой опере, тоже на сюжет Толстого. «Сцены из жизни Николеньки Иртеньева» в каком-то смысле предстают «Войной и миром» в миниатюре, по чистоте и силе переживания не уступая «мирным» эпизодам оперы Прокофьева.

Богдан Королёк

русский

Sergei Banevich's concert opera Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irtenev, just like Tolstoy's book which inspired it, is aimed at both children and adults whose souls still burn with the "light of childhood". It is a chamber work, and intimate - it is hard to speak otherwise of the most precious, exciting and delicate stage of life.

The opera is structured as a series of memories of the Narrator: the staccato and cinematic libretto by Sergei Vasiliev as if draws separate episodes of Tolstoy’s narrative from a fog. Just like in life – when people grow up much of the past is forgotten, and in our souls we retain only the strongest impressions of childhood. The plot is held together by refrain episodes – a waltz that Nikolenka’s sister is learning in the next room, an Easter folk song and Nikolenka’s own naive prayer “May God grant happiness to all, that they may be content, and that there be good weather for walking.”

The scene of the ball with the grand waltz, the sleepless night and even the comment about the first flowers of spring – here there is much that reminds us of another opera, also based on a plot by Tolstoy. Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irteniev in a sense is a War and Peace in miniature, in terms of purity and power of emotion ceding nothing to the “peace” episodes of Prokofiev’s opera.

Bogdan Korolyok

English

Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irteniev by Banevich, Sun 21 Nov 2021, From (2021/2022), Directed by Alexei Stepanuyk,, Conductor Larisa Gergieva, Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Vladivostok, Russia

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