Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila

Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila (2011)

Music

The reopening show of the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theatre by Jurowski and Tcherniakov. "Ruslan and Lyudmila", opera by Mikhail Glinka, has particular relation with the Bolshoï Theater, it held more than 700 representations throughout the history and nine different productions. Logically the fable of Mikhail Glinka (from a poem of Pushkin), symbol of the Russian opera, opened the season 2011-2012 of the majestic Moscow s opera, after its long renovation. This reopening inspired the director Dmitri Tcherniakov, who signed the direction of this new production. The new devices of the Bolshoi Theatre and its two giant screens are fully exploited in a spectacular staging. Tcherniakov transposes Glinka s opera at the 21th century with contemporary ambitions because of the "modernity of the subject", trying there to put forward "the deep feelings of the characters , exposing the protagonists to very modern temptations: a "harem" for Ruslan, a Thai massage for Lyudmila.

Director: Andy Sommer

Casts

	Albina Shagimuratova as Ludmila
	Mikhail Petrenko as Ruslan
	Yuri Minenko as Ratmir
	Almas Švilpa as Farla
	Alexandrina Pendatchanska as Gorislava
	Charles Workman as Finn / Bayan
	Elena Zaremba as Naina
	Vladimir Ognovenko as Svetosar
	Alexandre Polkovnikov as La tete

Crew