Alexander Vassiliev

Most Popular Alexander Vassiliev Trailers

Total trailers found: 8

From the House of the Dead - La Monnaie / De Munt Trailer (2018)

03 July 2018

Posthumously premiered in 1930, From the House of the Dead derives from Dostoevsky’s autobiographical 1862 novel that drew on his experience as a political prisoner in Siberia.

The Tsarina's Slippers Trailer (2009)

19 January 2009

Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009.

The Slippers Trailer (2014)

19 December 2014

A comic-fantastic opera by Tchaikovsky, also known as Cherevichki. In a small Ukrainian village, the devil decides to steal the moon to revenge himself on his enemy, Vakula the smith.

The Golden Cockerel Trailer (2016)

13 December 2016

‘A beautiful song – a shame that it shows such disrespect to the Mayor!’ This remark from the score of The Golden Cockerel highlights the delicious ambiguity of this work.

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Trailer (2007)

30 January 2007

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a lurid tale of sex, murder, and corruption, premiered in 1934 and was a success until Stalin saw it two years later, resulting in a Pravda review that viciously condemned it.

The Tale Of Tsar Saltan Trailer (2019)

11 June 2019

Tsar Saltan marries the youngest of three sisters, having heard that it is her dearest wish to present him with a heroic son and heir.

Prokofiev: War and Peace Trailer (2023)

05 March 2023

Sergei S. Prokofiev's monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace. The composer and his wife Mira compressed the plot, set during Napoleon's Russian campaign, into a powerful sequence of scenes in which the love story between Natasha Rostova and Andrei Bolkonsky and the description of the Russian army's fight against the French invasion alternate in rich contrast, and at the same time are closely interwoven.

Gli stivaletti Trailer (2019)

01 January 2019

From the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, a comic-fantasy opera in four acts and seven scenes, with a libretto by Jakov Polonsky based on Nikolai Gogol’s "A Christmas Eve", and music by Tchaikovsky.