FULL VIY (Verikivskyi) Kiev 2023 Opera Studio of the National Music Academy of Ukraine
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: VIY
- Composer: Verikivskyi Mykhailo Ivanovych
- Libretto: Verikivskyi Mykhailo based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Opera Studio of the National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Recorded: October 19, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: unknown
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Victor Laskin
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: mail.ru FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The opera “Viy” was written by Mykhailo Verikovsky to his own libretto based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol: 1st edition – 1936-37, 2nd edition – 1945-46. This opera was not staged. The piano and fragments of the score of the work are stored in the Central Archive-Museum of Literature and Art. At the request of our theater for the “Ukrainian diptych” project, the orchestration of Pannochka’s aria was performed by Artem Roschenko.
Mykhailo Ivanovich Verykivskyi (November 8 (20), 1896 , Kremenets city , now Ternopil region – June 14, 1962 , Kyiv ) is a Ukrainian composer , teacher , conductor , folklorist, music and public figure. He is the author of the first Ukrainian oratorio “Thought about the Maid Marusya Boguslavka” (1923), the first Ukrainian ballet “Mr. Kanyovsky” (1930). Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR ( 1944 ). Professor ( 1946 ). Father of Iryna and Olena Verikivskyi.
As a child, he was in an atmosphere of love and respect for his native folk song, which influenced his musical creativity. After graduating from elementary school, Mykhailo entered the Kremenets two-class city school and was accepted into the bishop’s choir. He continued his musical education at the Kremenets Commercial School (1912-1914), where he learned to play musical instruments. Mykhailo Verikyvsky led a choir and an orchestra of folk instruments, played in the school’s symphony orchestra, studied the cello and piano , and made his first compositional attempts — he created piano preludes and romances. One of the composer’s early works was the March of the Students of the Kremenets Commercial School for the orchestra of folk instruments (1913), which was performed at one of the school concerts.
In 1914, Verikyvskyi entered the Kyiv Conservatory .
From 1922 he taught at the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute and the Kyiv Conservatory (until 1960 , with a break from 1941 to 1944 ; from 1946 – its professor). Among the students, in particular, Mykhailo Antkiv [1] .
1920 — head of the Ukrainian National Choir.
1921 – 1928 — co-founder, board member and chairman of the Society named after Mykola Leontovych (head of the choir-studio under him).
1928 – 1930 — chairman of the presidium and head of the scientific and creative department of the All-Ukrainian Society of Revolutionary Musicians.
1926 – 1928 — conductor of the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater.
1928 – 1935 — conductor of the Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theater .
1940 — head of the Dumka State Chapel .
1950 – 1958 — researcher at the Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
The creative legacy of the composer is more than 400 works.
Stage works:
operas: “Heavenly Affairs” ( 1931 ), “The Centurion” (1939), “The Mercenary” (1943, both based on poems by Taras Shevchenko ), “The Fugitives” (1948), “Slava” (1961);
musical comedy “Vii” ( 1936 , 2nd edition 1945 — comic opera);
ballet “Mr. Kanyovsky” (1930).