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Afternoon Concert: Opera matinee: Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel

Opera matinee: Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel

09/11/2017

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Opera matinee: Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel and Shostakovich's Symphony No 12 with the BBC NOW.

Penny Gore presents the opera matinee: Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, conducted by Ivor Bolton at Madrid's Teatro Real. Then, Shostakovich's Symphony No 12.

As part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture, Penny Gore presents our opera matinée featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, a satire of Russian absolutism and imperialism, inspired on a poem by Pushkin. Ivor Bolton conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real in Madrid with the bass Dmitiri Ulyanov as Tsar Dodon, the tenor Sergei Skorokhodov as Tsarevich Gvidon and the soprano Venera Gimadieva as the Tsaritsa of Shemakha. Between Acts 2 and 3 there is a short interlude based on The Golden Cockerel, a concert fantasy by Efrem Zimbalist and Hymn to the Sun by Fritz Kreisler. The opera is followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No 12, performed by the National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Thomas Sondergard.

2.00pm
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel, opera in three acts 
[Between Acts 2 and 3 there is a short interlude based on The Golden Cockerel, 'Concert Phantasy' by Efrem Zimbalist and 'Hymn to the Sun' by Fritz Kreisler]

Tsar Dodon ..... Dmitiri Ulyanov (bass) 
Tsarevich Gvidon ..... Sergei Skorokhodov (tenor) 
Tsarevich Afron ..... Alexey Lavrov (baritone)
General Polkan ..... Alexander Vinogradov (bass) 
Amelfa, a housekeeper ..... Olesya Petrova (contralto) 
Astrologer ..... Alexander Kravets (tenor altino)
Tsaritsa of Shemakha ..... Venera Gimadieva (coloratura soprano) 
Little Golden Cockerel ..... Sara Blanch (soprano)
Teatro Real Chorus
Teatro Real Orchestra
Ivor Bolton (conductor)

4.15pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 12 in D minor, Op 112 (The Year 1917)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

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