In London at the festival of classical music Proms staged a little-known opera by Dmitry Shostakovich Automatic translate

LONDON. The Proms Classical Music Festival, under the auspices of the British radio company BBC, celebrates its 120th anniversary this year. One of the most interesting events of the current festival was a new production of an almost unknown opera by Shostakovich, which he never finished.

The opera Organo, whose writing was dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution, was created according to the libretto by Alexei Tolstoy and Alexander Sarchikov. The amazing story about the orangutan man has much in common with Bulgakov’s “Dog’s Heart”, with Lovecraft’s “Arthur Jeremin”, and with the fact of the actual experience of crossing humans and monkeys in the USSR. The opera was intended for the Bolshoi Theater and was written in the spirit of avant-garde prevailing at that time.

For many years, the manuscript of the opera was forgotten, it was discovered only in 2004. The opera was first staged in 2011 in Los Angeles, and the Russian audience saw it only three years later, at the Mstislav Rostropovich festival. In London, the opera was presented by the singers of the Mariinsky Theater Academy.

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