Furthermore, neither Pushkin or later Tchaikovsky, had any intention to turn their particular Masterpieces in to a Comedy!!! Pushkin’s Story is a drama, about greed, love and misfortune, and Tchaikovsky have respectfully followed just that, accenting the Eternal ill of the Human Race. In this Case - it's an Era of an early 19th century, 1830th.

Opera is a combination of a story/play set on music, sometimes with ballet, but all in harmony and correlation with the Historical Era of the masterpiece required. , or, instead of a ghost of a queen appearing before Gherman at night in his dream, as the story suggests, a ridiculous Giant Skeleton lays down in bed with Gherman hugging him. Its very unfortunate and disappointing that liberal/ ”progressive” narratives have been pushed throughout everything in our Civil Society, including Performing Arts today, no matter whether it's belongs there or not! For example : neither Alexander Pushkin or Peter Tchaikovsky would have appreciate their drama being butchered and turned in to a cheap entertainment, where a dramatic music has no connection to a play itself : - a gay man dressed and act as a pervert dancing with cheap suggestive overtones in front of a few dozens of half naked men somewhere in the dirty shack ( supposedly casino ) on top of a dirty Gambling table.

One of my favorite Operas ” Queen of Spades ” was playing.Īll I can say is - voices were fantastic, but that's where my praises would stop.Īs for production itself: costumes and staging - it was absolutely horrifying and unacceptable.

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