In which year was the Russian author who wrote the novel which inspired the opera commissioned by Florida Grand Opera to celebrate the 2007 opening of the Ziff Ballet Opera House born?
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Anna Karenina (Carlson) Anna Karenina is an opera in two acts by American composer David Carlson, based on the novel "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy, commissioned by Florida Grand Opera to celebrate the 2007 opening of the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, co-commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. The libretto is by British director Colin Graham, originally contemplated for Benjamin Britten's opera commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre (the project was cancelled by the British after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia). Graham was to have directed the original production; after his death only weeks before the opera's opening night, the direction was taken over by Mark Streshinsky. The opera is in two acts with a prologue and an epilogue, lasting just over two hours.
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Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( ; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, "Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj" , ] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910 ), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
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The Idiot (opera) The Idiot (Op.144, 1985), is a Russian-language opera by Mieczyslaw Weinberg after Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name. The piece was given its world premiere at the National Theatre Mannheim, on 9 May 2013, conducted by Thomas Sanderling, followed by a recording on Pan Classics.
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Igor Nikolayev Igor Yuryevich Nikolayev (Russian: И́горь Ю́рьевич Никола́ев ; born 17 January 1960) is a Russian composer, singer and song-writer.
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A Life for the Tsar A Life for the Tsar (Russian: Жизнь за царя , "Zhizn' za tsarya"), as it is known in English, although in Soviet times its name was "Ivan Susanin" (Russian: Иван Сусанин ) is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Egor Fyodorovich (von) Rozen, Vladimir Sollogub and Vasily Zhukovsky. It premiered on 27 November 1836 OS (9 December NS) at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg. The historical basis of the plot involves Ivan Susanin, a patriotic hero of the early 17th century who gave his life in the expulsion of the invading Polish army for the newly elected Tsar Mikhail, the first of the Romanov dynasty, elected in 1613.
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By Plume and Sword By Plume and Sword or By Pen and by Sword (Russian: "Пером и шпагой") is a novel by the Soviet writer Valentin Pikul, written in 1963 and first published in 1972. It describes secret diplomacy during the Seven Years' War and the reign of Elizabeth of Russia. Its central character is the Chevalier d'Eon.
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Rogneda (opera) Rogneda (Russian: "Рогнеда" ) is an opera in five acts, composed by Alexander Serov between 1863 and 1865. The scenario, by the composer, was based on the novel "Askold's Grave" ("Аскольдова могила", 1833) by Mikhail Zagoskin and the poem "Rogneda" (ca. 1825) by Kondraty Ryleyev. The actual Russian libretto was created by Dmitry Averkiev in the same manner as with the composer's previous opera, "Judith", with the words written to fit the vocal lines "after" the music had been composed.
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Two Steps from Heaven Two Steps From Heaven is a novel by Russian author Mikhail Evstafiev.
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The White Night of St. Petersburg The White Night of St. Petersburg is a novelised biography of Grand Duke Nicholas Kostantinovich Romanov set in Russia at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century.
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Le chant du rossignol The opera, the first act written in 1908 and the later two in 1913-14, was the first ever to be written by Stravinsky. The delay between writing the first and the latter acts was caused by his commissions to write "The Firebird", "Petrushka", and "The Rite of Spring" for impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After this lapse of time, during which Stravinsky established himself as a ballet composer, he was unsure of returning to "Le rossignol", and although he did finish it, he chose to also create a purely symphonic version, "Le chant du rossignol".
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Victor Kissine Victor Kissine (Russian: Виктор Романович Кисин; born on the 15 of March 1953 in Saint Petersburg (at the time Leningrad) ) is a Russian-born classical composer.
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Rothschild's Violin (opera) Rothschild's Violin (Russian: Скрипка Ротшильда ) is a one-act opera by Russian composer Veniamin Fleishman (1913–1941) set to the Russian libretto by the composer after the short story "Rothschild's Fiddle" by Anton Chekhov.
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Yury Buida Yury Vasilyevich Buida (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Буйда ) (born 1954) is a Russian author. He was born in Znamensk in the Kaliningrad region of Russia. In 1994 his novel "The Zero Train" was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize. His short story collection "The Prussian Bride" won the Apollon Grigoriev Prize in 1999, and its translation by Oliver Ready won the Rossica Translation Prize in 2005.
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The Golden Cockerel The Golden Cockerel (Russian: Золотой петушок , "Zolotoy petushok") is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Its libretto, by Vladimir Belsky, derives from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel", which in turn is based on two chapters of "Tales of the Alhambra" by Washington Irving. The opera was completed in 1907 and premiered in 1909 in Moscow, after the composer's death. Outside Russia it has often been performed in French as "Le coq d'or".
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Katerina Ksenyeva Katerina Ksenyeva (born December 5, 1975, Russian: Катерина Ксеньева) is a New York-based singer, composer, actress, author and journalist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2013, Ksenyeva started working on permanent basis in New York City singing in English and Hebrew.
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Olga Grushin Olga Grushin (born 1971) is a Russian-American novelist.
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Mikhail Zoshchenko Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Зо́щенко ; August 9 [O.S. July 28] 1894 – July 22, 1958) was a Soviet author and satirist.
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The Red Poppy The Red Poppy (Russian: Красный мак ) or sometimes The Red Flower (Russian: Красный цветок ) is a ballet in three acts and eight tableaus with an apotheosis, with a score written by Reinhold Glière and libretto by Mikhail Kurilko. This ballet was created in 1927 as the first Soviet ballet with a modern revolutionary theme. Possibly the most famous dance from this ballet is the Sailors Dance, sometimes referred to as the "Russian Sailors Dance" (although it is described as "Dance of the Sailors from the Soviet Ship" in the score and libretto). It is this musical selection for which Glière is perhaps best known. There have been four main versions of "The Red Poppy".
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Blood Red, Snow White Blood Red, Snow White is a historical novel by Marcus Sedgwick published in 2007. It is a novel of the Russian Revolution, a fictionalised account of the time the author Arthur Ransome spent in Russia. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award.
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Erik Kurmangaliev Erik Kurmangaliev (December 31, 1959 – November 13, 2007) was a Russian-Kazakh opera singer, actor and a leading public figure in Russia's perestroika music scene.
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Julia Voznesenskaya Julia Nikolayevna Voznesenskaya (Russian: Юлия Николаевна Вознесенская ), also known as Julia Toropovskaya - her maiden name, Julia Okulova - her husband's name, born on 14 September 1940 in Leningrad, is a Russian author of books with a Christian worldview. In 1976 Voznesenskaya was sentenced to four years of exile for Anti-Soviet Propaganda. In 1980 she emigrated to Germany. In 1996-1999 she lived in Lesninsky Russian Orthodox Convent in Chauvincourt-Provemont, Normandy, France. From 2002 until her death on 20 February 2015 she lived in Berlin.
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Servilia (opera) Servilia (Russian: Сервилия , "Serviliya", the name of a main character), is an opera in five acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The work was completed in 1901, and was first performed in 1902 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on the drama by Lev Alexandrovich Mey. The story is set in Ancient Rome during Nero's reign.