Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay - 3CD-BOX: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - Vedernikov, Alexander
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Kazakov, Mikhail, bass
Panfilov, Vitaly, tenor
Monogarova, Tatiana, soprano
Gubsky, Mikhail, tenor
Hakobyan, Gevorg, baritone
Gulordava, Marika, soprano
Ferrari, Riccardo, bass
Consolini, Stefano, tenor
Gilmanov, Valery, bass
Naumenko, Alexander, bass
Savoia, Rosanna, soprano
Manistina, Elena, mezzo-soprano
Cagliari Theatre Chorus
Cagliari Theatre Orchestra
Vedernikov, Alexander, Conductor
The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army's entry to Great Kitezh and the city's subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that "is contemporary and even fairly advanced". It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer's rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.