Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), as a young cadet and in 1866.
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Transcript of Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), as a young cadet and in 1866.
Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908),as a young cadet and in 1866
The “Mighty Heap/Handful”: Musorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Cui, Borodin, at Nikolai Purgol’d’s home
and St. Petersburg Conservatory, now the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music (1862)
Rimsky-Korsakov and
wife Nadezhda Purgold Rimskaia-Korsakova (1848-1919)
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Grave in Tikhvin Cemetery, Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg
Igor Stravinsky and the Rimsky-Korsakovs, 1908
Portraits of Rimsky-Korsakov by artists Il’ya Repin and Valentin Serov
The Maid of Pskov: Veche Scene (a drawing for the opera) and Fyodor Chaliapin as Ivan IV (1896)
Revival of The Maid of Pskov, 2008, Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg
From May Night: Sobinov as Levko, 1909, and from Christmas Eve: Mravina as Oksana, 1895
The Snow Maiden: Set by Viktor Vasnetsov (1883); Costume by Nikolai Roerich (1912); Revival at Bolshoi Theater, 2013
Sadko: Chaliapin as the Varangian, 1898 and Set design by Nikolai Roerich, 1914
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia: Paintings for stage sets by Ivan Bilibin (Maly Kitezh and Kitezh
transformed)
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d’Or): Stage set by Bilibin; painting of Dodon and Shemakha by Bilibin; Astrologer in the opera
Images for Scheherazade, based on the Arabian Nights: costumes and set designs by Lev Bakst for Mikhail Fokin’s ballet production, 1910
Pascha 2009 at Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow
Some Links to R-K Music
• Dance of the Skomorokhi from Snow Maiden• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-OuMNBzWuA• • • Cortege from Mlada• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWw2HzRNQxA• • • Introduction and Dodon’s Sleep from The Golden Cockerel• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQeVPEtXd4• • • Scheherazade • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_pkRH2DZuw• • Or as a ballet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptC3szb4zHs• • • Russian Easter Overture• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHFJ0lU9Us• • • Capriccio Espagnol• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Qx5liqqTQ•