Kirov Opera: Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa / Мазепа 

Певцы не все одного уровня! Тенор Луцюк не вполне владеет голосом. У него неровная интонация, нестабильная звуковая эмиссия, то есть много чисто технических проблем.

@王志仁 Bless you, thank you

Again, bless you. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I’d love to see this opera in person! One of my favorites! Although it’s so tragic… 1:14:14 The heartbreak in his voice brings me to tears. Poor Kochubey 💔

So are you

De acuerdísimo, compadre! Did you hear Pletnev's performance of his Concerto Segundo? Saludos de Puerto Aventuras, México!

"Кочебуй" - это интересно! :)))

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Funny story, I learned German by listening to German operas and reading poetry by Schiller. When I attended a language institute, we were going over vocabulary and the instructor looked at me: "Where did you learn German?" I told him and he laughed, "Nobody talks like THAT any more." The German (and Russian) of 100-200 years ago is very different than today's, while American English, basically hasn't changed much in the same time. It would be like talking like Sherlock Holmes today. When I lived in Germany, the Germans were very entertained...but you have a reason to learn Russian, right?

@@VladTygr That's a great and very common story. I believe that many people have the same issues. I find it so interesting how English has maintained its main core and others, like German and Portuguese have not. I'm about two months to get my BA in Economics and when I go to Smith's and Ricardo's writings from mid-18th and early 19th centuries I found them to be so comprehensible, but when I read a Brazilian author (I'm from down under) I can barely understand what is in the paper. Now, even though for professional reasons I must get more fluent in English and French, I would love to learn Russian, especially because of its literature. To me, read Tolstoy in its mother language would be a very special event. Greetings from Brazil!

@@luanllluan I wish you success in your studies! I'm originally from Hawaii and we have a very large Portuguese community, here. I even took the time to make some gandule rice before replying, and now my house smells awesome. My older brother collects law books and my oldest book is Spanish Jurisprudence, published in 1630. My mother speaks Spanish and understand some Spanish, as well as Hawaiian. I am retired now, and living in the US. I hope your education carries you far.

What about pesniclub.com/search/чайковский-мазепа

Quite close to rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/02poems/01poems/0791.htm

Это не продукция. Это творение великих людей черт ты не русский 😊

@@user-mv9iu8ud9b He meant "this *production* of the opera" I am sure: translation glitch from production to product. A lavish staging indeed, very good singers and maestro Gergiev. I've seen another film of this production three times on tv over the last two years (Mezzo filmed this a night in 2019, with Sulimsky and Semenchuk) and find it captivating too. I'm from Sweden, by the way - wish Tchaikovsky had written another act so that we had got to see Mazeppa and Charles XII meeting some time before Poltava! :)

@@louise_rose Решил опередить"языковое " Время,себя показать... Но..ещё рано... Ясно,что "постановка".по--русски...

@@zinam5795 Что ж, согласны ли вы со мной, что это должна была быть опера в четырех или пяти действиях, чтобы дать полное представление об историческом контексте мрачной истории? :)

@@louise_rose :)

Tellement dommage…

Buy the dvd then, beggars can't be choosers. And buy some manners while you're at it

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I've had the good fortune of watching this production (in a 2019 performance filmed at the same great opera house) on the Mezzo tv channel. Three times, too (since they run reprises of much of their shows). Can't recommend Mezzo too highly, and it's available in Russia as well (and they broadcast a great deal of Russian classical music, opera and ballet, too). This is a captivating opera, lavishly produced and sung, and as a Swede I just wish Tchaikovsky had written an act, before the last one, where Mazeppa's treason and the lead-up to the battle of Poltava had come straight to the fore. Seeing Charles, Mazeppa and one of the Swedish generals discussing on the opera stage would have been amazing! :) In the opera as it is, the actual war is mostly left out (only illustrated by the overture to the third act). But maybe Pyotr didn't want a four-hour mammoth of an opera... ;)

​@@louise_rose I wish Mazeppa was performed more... it's truly one of the saddest and most beautiful operas I've ever heard. Tchaikovsky might not be "known" as an opera composer like Wagner or Verdi but my god he was so good at it. Maid of Orleans is one that's extremely hard to stage and will never be popular, but the ending of that opera is utterly intense and magnificent. Tchaikovsly FELT his operas to their very cores.

@@thesilvershining I agree, I've watched Onegin four times in different stagings/performances (from the New York Met and from the Kirov opera - two of those with the great Dmitry Hvorostovsky) and it is such a beautiful. wistful and very human drama - and with such powerful music! His best known opera outside Russia, it has more or less eclipsed the others. Mazeppa can feel overlong at a few points - it's not as lyrically concentrated as Eugene Onegin or Jolanta, and it lacks a powerful ending - but it is very rewarding in other ways and the story feels painfully Russian. I was thinking watching it that if some of the "grand politics frame" were removed, the story could have been moved to the 1930s and the lead-up towards WW2 without too many changes. Peter would have become Stalin and Mazeppa some double-acting, powerplaying high-level party member who ultimately connives with the enemy and sells out the Motherland. After all, the drama is based on real historical people from the early 18th century, but a scene like the end of act 2, with the women waiting to see the defeated Kochubey and his friend getting executed feels timeless: it's happened so many times in the history of Russia. This is a very dramatic opera with beautiful music, as colourful and brutal as Il Trovatore, and it should be performed more often. /Louise, Sweden

Учите русский.

@@user-bk3ud3uy8s, it's nothing wrong with subtitles.

I went out and got the DVD just for the subtitles, which are needed if you don't know Russian. You can find it at a good price on eBay.

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That scene with the dignified but powerless women awaiting the public execution of two of the leading men of their community, after they have been cruelly outplayed by those in power, feels so close to many points in Russian history. The entire opera has several such scenes.

Queen of Spades is worse

Certainly one of the most gruesome and disturbing storylines (or sets of interlaced storylines) in any opera, equal to (or even harsher) than Verdi's Troubadour or the final act of Lucia di Lammermoor. And it is based on real history, real historical characters!

Unfortunately :(

Ну так по-английски пишут

@@principetnomusic да? Но ведь в оригинале она одна.