FULL A Tribute to Anna Akhmatova St.Petersburg 2024 Maria Bayankina, Gamid Abdulov
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: A Tribute to Anna Akhmatova
- Composer: various
- Libretto: Poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilev
- Venue & Opera Company: Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St.Petersburg, Russia
- Recorded: March 13, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Maria Bayankina, Gamid Abdulov
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Yuri Kokko, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Mariinsky Theatre
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Poetry by Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilev,
vocal cycles by Vitaly Khodosh, Sergei Prokofiev and Sergei Slonimsky,
works by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitry Shostakovich
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War II. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965 and received the second-most (three) nominations for the award the following year.
Akhmatova’s work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck a new chord in Russian poetry. Her writing can be said to fall into two periods – the early work (1912–25) and her later work (from around 1936 until her death), divided by a decade of reduced literary output. Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities, and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate and remaining in the Soviet Union, acting as witness to the events around her. Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism.
Primary sources of information about Akhmatova’s life are relatively scant, as war, revolution and the Soviet regime caused much of the written record to be destroyed. For long periods she was in official disfavour and many of those who were close to her died in the aftermath of the revolution. Akhmatova’s first husband, Nikolay Gumilyov, was executed by the Soviet secret police, and her son Lev Gumilyov and her common-law husband Nikolay Punin spent many years in the Gulag, where Punin died.
Quoted from Wikipedia