Stupenda la musica e altrettanto la messinscena. Grande lavoro del coro e del corpo di ballo : riescono a farmi attraversare in volo la vecchia Europa per trasportarmi nelle steppe dell'Asia, fra tartari e odalische... Annullano decenni e mi torna in mente una canzonetta della mia infanzia che si articolava sulle stesse note e a me bambina sembrava bellissima
My wife Linda 💙👑 of 46 yrs loves this Masterpiece. I'll send it to her now. It will make her day after the last two weeks of health issues etc. Talk about timing. Thank you. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
That was entrancing - quite a different look to the dance than I'm used to,but wonderful. The prima was exceptional - I've never seen anyone invest their work with such vitality, such joie de vivre
Such beautiful music - and the writer wasn't even a bloody composer. Borodin was a research chemistry scientist "by day" with a very well-respected international reputation. He worked in Russia, where in 1862, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Medical Surgical Academy of St Petersburg), as well as the West (chemistry post-doc at the University of Heidelberg 1859-1862). He was also a fully qualified physician, initially working as a military surgeon upon graduation. Apart from excelling in the completely unrelated skills of medicine, chemistry, and musical composition, he gets my respect for championing the educational rights of women in a time and place where no such rights existed. He founded the School of Medicine for Women in St Petersburg. Did I mention that by the time he was thirteen years old, he was a proficient flautist, cellist and pianist, who spoke fluent German, Italian, French, English, and Russian. He viewed his musical achievements in a decidely secondary role behind his successful academic career in chemistry. And Phil (next comment) is correct. I shouldn't be sick with envy - I should just celebrate his musical legacy..
It was a complete Broadway musical "Kismet". Also, the song that was put to some of this music as "No other love have I.." became one of the themes in the series TV series "Victory at Sea" , the music called "Beneath the Southern Cross"
Polovets are turkish originated peoples... one of the main branch of turkish tribes ,called kıpchak( kıpçak).... russians are called them as polovets....
