Glinka "Life for the Tsar" (Opera in concert performance)

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka "Life for the Tsar" (Opera in concert performance)

On July 13, 2014, Mikhail Glinka's Opera "Life for the Tsar" performed by the State academic Symphony Capella of Russia under the direction of Valery Polyansky was performed in the open air at the walls of the St. George monastery in the ancient city of Meshchovsk.The production was timed to the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty and the 775th anniversary of the city of Meshchovsk, which gave the dynasty two Queens
Large-scale outdoor concert. On this day, nature itself was a participant in the action. The thunderclaps that accompanied Ivan Susanin's Aria "You will rise my dawn", and the lightning flash along with the chorus"Glory" -the apotheosis of the entire Opera, when all the bells on the stage, and all the bells of the monastery sounded.
Opening speech-Svyatoslav Belza

State academic Symphony Capella of Russia (choir and orchestra)
Conductor-Valery Polyansky.
Actors and performers: IVAN SUSANIN,
peasant of Domnina village-Mikhail Guzhov (bass)
ANTONIDA, his daughter-Irina Samoylova (soprano)
VANYA, his adopted son-Ksenia Dudnikova (contralto)
BOGDAN SOBININ, soldier, Antonida's fiance-Oleg Dolgov (tenor)
HEAD of the POLISH SQUAD-Ruslan Rozyev (bass)
The HERALD - Kirill Filin (tenor)