Rimsky-Korsakov / Vedernikov / Gulordava / Floris: Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

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Title:

Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

Artist:

Alexander Vedernikov

Label:

Naxos Opera Classics

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

730099028875

Genre:

Classical

Sub Genre:

Opera/Operetta

Release Date:

2012-03-27

Number of Discs:

3

The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army’s entry to Great Kitezh and the city’s subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that “is contemporary and even fairly advanced”. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer’s rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.

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