The Fair at Sorochyntsi: Komische Oper Berlin
About the Event
Mussorgsky's rich and vibrant opera will be performed at the Komische Oper in a new production by Artistic Director Barrie Kosky.
The story of the Devil looking for a red frock terrorizes the village of Sorochyntsi. Meanwhile a farmer's daughter falls in love with a peasant boy and uses the superstition of her stepmother as a means to her own end.
For 'The Fair at Sorochyntsi' Mussorgsky used folk songs and dances as well as some of his earlier compositions like the orchestral fantasy 'Night on a Bald Mountain'. The composer never finished his work, and among the attempts to complete the opera, the version chosen for this production, by Lamm and Shebalin from 1932, seems to get closest to the composer's intentions.
Cast / Production
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Director: Barrie Kosky
Stage design and costume design: Katrin Lea Tag
Dramaturgy: Ulrich Lenz
Choir: David Cavelius
Lighting: Diego Leetz
Tscherewik, a farmer: Jens Larsen
Chiwrja, his wife: Agnes Zwierko
Parasja, daughter of Tscherewik: Mirka Wagner
Gevatter: Tom Erik Lie
Grizko, Bauernbursche: Alexander Lewis
Afanassi Iwanowitsch: Ivan Turšić
Gypsy: N. N.
Tschernobog, Oberteufel: Carsten Sabrowski
Choir soloists of the Komische Oper Berlin
Vocalconsort Berlin
