tragic musical

Text: Alexander Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Premiere: Moscow, September 1991, MHAT (Moscow Art Theater) Vienna, December 1991, Jugenstiltheater

with: Juri Shikhin (Don Juan), Jelena Karetnikova (Dona Anna), Tatiana Kabash (Laura), Konstantin Rostshin (Leporello), Anatoly Dorovskikh (Don Carlos) Mikhail Saltykov (Young Man) Thomas Frank (Commander´s Statue) and with Schlomit Butbul, Silvia Amort, Reinwald Kranner

Text: "The Stone Guest", Little Tragedy by Pushkin.

Don Juan, together with A Feast During the Plague and Mozart and Salieri,were parts of the CrossRoads, the first Russian-Austrian "joint-venture" on the musical field. The project was dedicated to Year of Mozart.

Pushkin new Mozart´s "Don Giovanni"; the scene where Leporello invites Cammander´s Statue to stay on watch comes textually close to Da Ponte´s libretto - which in its turn borrowed a lot from Moliere´s comedy.

CrossRoads was sponsored by:
Russian Roe Material & Commodity exchange (Sponsor General)
Bank Austria (Moscow branch))
Austrian Federal Ministery for Foreign Affairs
Austrian Ostfonds
Cultural Councel of the Vienna City Hall
and Soventure Group (Moscow)

other Websites on Pushkin: The Pushkin Page http://falcon.jmu.edu/~gouldsl/Pushkin/

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