Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far between; this realisation of his penultimate and grandest stage work is a very rare and special experience. Kitezh is known as "the Russian Parsifal", which encapsulates its mystical flavour and steady unfolding of a legend of redemption
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Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story centers on a magnificent masked ball, given by a Russian prince, that brings together all the main characters in various disguises.
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Rimsky-Korsakov: THE LEGEND OF THE INVISIBLE CITY OF KITEZH (DNO)
Rimsky-Korsakov's opera is a fanciful fairytale yet at the same time a parable on repression and political conceit. The peasant girl Fevroniya's prayer that the city ...
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