FULL THE VISIT OF THE OLD LADY (Sergei Cortez) Minsk 1997 Natalia Rudneva, Eduard Pelageychenko, Tamara Glagoleva, Mikhail Zhilyuk
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Visit of the Lady «Визит дамы»
- Composer: Cortez Sergei
- Libretto: Vladimir Khalip based on the play “The Old Lady’s Visit”/ "Der Besuch der alten Dame" by F. Dürrenmatt Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, Minsk
- Recorded: 1997
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Natalia Rudneva, Eduard Pelageychenko, Tamara Glagoleva, Mikhail Zhilyuk, Sergey Frankovsky, Gennady Chepikov, Yuri Bastrikov, Viktor Chernobaev, Lyudmila Krivenok, Marina Aksentsova, Oleg Melnikov, Elena Bundeleva, Elvira Ryzhanovich
- Conductor: Andrey Galanov
- Orchestra:
- Chorus Master: Nina Lomanovich
- Stage Director: Nikolay Pinigin
- Stage Designer: Zinovy Margolin
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Belarus TV
- Date Published: 1997
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The completely impoverished residents of the backwater town of Gullen are preparing to meet the daughter of a local mason, now a billionaire Clara Tsakhanassian. Will she not be touched by the sight of their wretchedness and throw some money to her hometown?
And then the Lady herself appears with a strange retinue, a leopard in a cage and… an empty coffin. She is ready to gift Gullen more generously than these poor fellows could ever dream of. The Gullens will receive a billion on the condition that one of them kills the shopkeeper Alfred Ill, who in the distant past was her first love, but betrayed and slandered his “red-haired witch”. The monstrous condition, initially rejected with anger, is eventually fulfilled…
Sergei Cortez (Belarusian: Сярге́й Альбе́ртавіч Картэ́с, Russian: Серге́й Альбе́ртович Корте́с; 18 February 1935 – 26 June 2016) was a Belarusian composer.
Cortez was born in San Antonio, Chile. He lived for most of his early life in Argentina, and emigrated with his parents to Minsk in the Byelorussian SSR in 1955 at the age of 20.