DESCRIPTION:
From the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg (2012)
Orchestra and Choir of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev - musical director and conductor
Vasily Barkhatov - stage director

Sergei Romanov - Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov
Sergei Semishkur - Nozdryov
Larisa Diadkova - Korobochka
Sergei Aleksashkin - Sobakevich
Svetlana Volkova - Plyushkin
Alexander Timchenko - Manilov
Karina Chepurnova - Lizanka Manilova
Andrei Popov - Selifan
Andrei Serov - Mizhuev
Tatiana Kravtsova - Anna Griegorievna
Varvara Solovyova - Sofia Ivanovna
Vladimir Felyauer - Governor
Lyudmila Kanunnikova - The Governor’s wife
Yekaterina Devitchinskaya - The Governor’s daughter
Alexander Gerasimov - Procurator
Yvgeny Ulanov - Chief of Police
Vitaly Ishutin - Postmaster
Dmitry Koleushko - President oft he Court
Nikita Gribanov - Priest
Nikolai Kamensky - Captain Ispravnik
Dmitry Turchaninov - Porfiry
Oleg Losev - Pavlushka

Rodion Shchedrin: Dead Souls - Opera in three acts after a novel by Nikolai Gogol
Music and libretto by Rodion Shchedrin

01:37 First Act
54:06 Second Act
1:38:57 Third Act

St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre has staged the opera Dead Souls to the music by Rodion Shchedrin, who turns 80 in 2012. One of the indisputable operatic masterpieces of the 20th century will appear in the brand new, bright, expressive staged version, more than 30 years later, again at the Mariinsky Theatre. The premiere of the production took place on March 18. It is the first Russian production since its 1977 premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Zinovy Margolin - set designer
Maria Danilova - costume designer
Damir Ismagilov - lighting designer
Marina Mishuk - musical preperation
Andrei Petrenko - principal chorus master