2023-08-08 15:28:58
Opera Days 2022. Photo: Natalia Starostina
The Opera Festival, which will be held in Narva from August 16 to 19, invites opera gourmets and connoisseurs of modern ballet. Even fans of Depeche Mode and Haruki Murakami will find events they want to visit in the varied program. Every evening there is a new production, a guest production or even a premiere in the program. More details on the website www.narvaopera.ee/programm.
Narva is a fascinating place – not just a border city in Estonia, but also a border city of NATO and the European Union. Due to its location at the crossroads of cultures and countries, near the picturesque sea beaches, near the most abundant river in Estonia, the Narva River, the city does not leave indifferent people of various interests. Narva is home to many monuments of architecture, from the medieval castle and the Baroque town hall of Narva from the Swedish period to the buildings of the 1990s. The town hall has recently been restored and can be visited by those who wish. You can also walk along the river promenade, visit the bastions of Narva Castle and go shopping. One of the local monuments of architecture – the Narva complex of the Krenholm Manufactory, which once held the title of the largest textile production in Europe – traditionally hosts the annual Narva Opera Days festival.
The international team of the seventh Narva Opera Days, which will be held in the border town from August 16 to 19, will present two productions of world opera classics and will host the staff of the Lithuanian National Opera. The festival will also feature the Estonian-Finnish collaboration ballet Flesh, which was first shown at the Opera Days in Narva last year. A novelty awaits the visitors of the festival – based on the music of Depeche Mode and the novel by Haruki Murakami, the performance “Another World” (“Another World”) performed by the Lithuanian modern ballet troupe Baltic Ballet Theatre.
For opera gourmets: opera buffa on wheels “La serva padrona”
On August 16, the Lithuanian National Opera will visit the Narva Opera Days, bringing with them the comic opera La serva padrona (The Servant-Mistress), which tells the story of a maid who tries to become a mistress by cunning, winning the heart of her master. This is a story about love and resourcefulness, where the audience becomes the guests at the wedding.
The opera will arrive on a truck, which will become a stage installed near the Krenholm Manufactory, in the Narva Art Residence – a new original cultural platform.
For Opera Gourmets: The Dramatic History of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
On August 17, the Kreenholm Manufactory in Narva will host the premiere of the opera “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, based on the famous fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
“Based on the content of the work, we chose the performances in the alluring and mysterious premises of the Krenholm Manufactory – they are perfect for telling the story of Bluebeard,” says Yuliya Savitskaya, producer and artistic director of Narva Opera Days.
The author of the libretto for the opera is the Hungarian poet Bela Balazs. Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is about a duke who brings his young wife Judith to his inhospitable windowless castle with seven locked doors. The castle represents Bluebeard’s soul, and the doors represent his character traits, past, and what he has inside. The stage work that will be presented at the Narva Festival is the product of the work of an international team. Estonian-Ukrainian opera singer bass Pavlo Balakin and soprano of Serbian origin Maria Yelich will perform as soloists, the music will be performed by the Narva Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Anatoly Shchura. The opera was staged by a representative of a new generation of Lithuanian stage directors and a member of the team of the Lithuanian National Opera, Agne Ambrozaityte.
For ballet gourmets: “Flesh”, born in cooperation between Estonia and Finland
On August 17, the program of the festival will include a replay of last year’s hit of the Narva Opera Days with the ballet “Flesh”, created by the leading dancer of the Estonian National Opera, choreographer and winner of the Young Cultural Worker presidential award Yevgeny Grib and independent ballet dancer from Finland Jack Treilen.
According to Yevgeny Grib, who directed the ballet, “Flesh” considers the interaction of body and soul. To express it, the authors used both the techniques of classical ballet and the means of modern dance art. “Touch is an experience. To feel is to live. The language of dance is universal, it allows you to convey thoughts from a variety of languages. “Flesh” is both an Estonian work and a work of the Finnish ballet scene, it was created both here and on the other side of the Gulf of Finland,” says Yevgeny Grib.
For admirers of Depeche Mode and Murakami: contemporary ballet “Another world”
On August 18, within the framework of the festival at the Krenholm Manufactory in Narva, the premiere of the ballet “Another World” (“Another World”), based on the music of Depeche Mode and Haruki Murakami’s novel “Wonderland without brakes and the end of the world”, will take place. In 2012, the production won the PixelAWARDS for Creative Digital Solutions. The work will be performed by the ambitious Lithuanian contemporary ballet theater Baltic Ballet Theatre.
The two-hour production combines different genres of art, offering an experience made up of symbols, philosophy, imagery and energetic music. Many of the dancers taking part in the production are Depeche Mode fans themselves, and all members of the troupe absolutely agree that the lyrics and melodies sounding from the stage contain so much drama that it is not a banal task to convey it in dance. All this requires a lot of effort and leaves an unforgettable impression.
“In this performance, professional ballet veterans are on stage as part of the troupe, and with them recent graduates of the ballet school. Together they bravely take on the challenges of an extraordinary ballet performance. The troupe operates in Vilnius, and its main dance style is new classical ballet,” says Another World director and choreographer Marija Simona Simulinaitė.
For opera gourmets: a love triangle involving a famous actress, or “Adriana Lecouvreur”
On August 19, the premiere of the popular opera Adriana Lecouvreur will take place in Narva, where the love triangle formed by the famous actress, her aristocratic admirer and former lover is at the center of the events.
The opera “Adriana Lecouvreur” by the Italian composer Francesco Cilea will be presented on stage by the Narva Opera Days team in collaboration with the Lithuanian contemporary music and video art troupe NB8 ART. “We invited George Petrushevsky and Dejan Proshev to stage the opera, the latter of whom is the artistic director of the Macedonian Opera and Ballet Theatre. Soloists include Vitaliy Kovalchuk, who performed at the Arena di Verona Opera Festival, and the leading baritone of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater Steponas Zonis. Adriana is played by the Lithuanian soprano Yuliya Karalunaite, who is already familiar to the audience of the Opera Days in Narva,” says Yuliya Savitskaya, artistic director of the festival.
Opera days in Narva will be held from 16 to 19 August. In addition to the program, there are also guided tours and an exhibition by Sasha Rotts and Hilda Kahra “Solid plot”. More information: www.narvaopera.ee/programm.
About the Opera Days in Narva
At one time, the choir of the Krenholm Manufactory founded 166 years ago – the largest textile production in Europe – was directed by the grandfather of Georg Ots. Now, every September, modern opera and modern ballet from Estonia and neighboring countries are performed near these historicist buildings. At the Opera Days in Narva, East and West, historical and modern, aristocrats and bohemia meet, and the fresh winds of world musical theater blow around abandoned industrial buildings. In the Krenholm area, you can feel both the vibes of tsarist times and Soviet solemnity, as well as today’s cosmopolitanism. There, the bold avant-garde is combined with the best traditions.
The festival was founded by a native of the city, opera singer Yulia Savitskaya in 2015. In 2018, for organizing the Opera Days in Narva, Savitskaya was awarded the “Pearl of Culture” award by the Capital of Culture Foundation, and in 2022, she received the title of professional cultural worker of the city of Narva in the field of music.
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