Semen Hulak-Artemovsky News
Ukrainian opera singer, composer, writer and musician (1813-1873)
- baritone
- opera
- Russian Empire
- composer, singer, opera singer, librettist, actor, playwright
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-05-19 23:51:11
Essential Demon Beckons
Alesksey Bognadov, the best Demon you will ever hear (lrina Danilova photo) Over its six-year history, Commonwealth Lyric Theater has brought to Boston a series of underappreciated Russian and Ukrainian operas in nontraditional playing spaces. Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Rachmaninov’s Aleko, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri in Brighton’s Temple Bnai Moshe. Semen Hulak-Artemovsky’s Cossack Beyond the Danube in Newton’s First Baptist Church. And last year — in a departure from “underappreciated” — Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov in Newton City Hall. This year’s offering is again obscure by American standards — Anton Rubinstein’s The Demon — but CLT is stepping up to a conventional theater, the Cutler Majestic. The transition isn’t always a smooth one, and there are flaws in the production. There are also surprises: CLT’s Demon, Ukrainian-born bass baritone Aleksey Bogdanov, doesn’t even appear on stage till act three. Seen or unseen, he’s magnificent. And this is surely the best Demon […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-05-16 00:21:11
Commonwealth Cossacks Beyond the Charles
Alex Mosko or Nicholas Buniak leaps (CLT photo) H.H. Richardson’s First Baptist Church of Newton, an astonishing miniature of Trinity Church Copley Square, provided a compelling setting for a musical production last night. This was not a medieval chancel drama, nor church parable, nor opera, exactly. No Christian soldiers marched as to war. But there were Turkish soldiers, Cossacks, diverse singers, players, dancers, and moments of great delight in the Commonwealth Lyric Theater staging of Cossack Beyond the Danube by Semyon Hulak-Artemovsky. The plot wisely stood clear of interfering with the fun. In short, a lovelorn girl laments, a drunken husband quails before a shrill but loving wife, a sultan in disguise discovers that the captive people are unhappy, lovelorn girl is kidnapped, La clemenza di Sultan ensues, the people rejoice. The composer’s pastiche in styles of Verdi (with whom he shares a birthday) and Donizetti, with a bit […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-05-07 14:28:47
Syzokryl dancer Yet again, the lively Commonwealth Lyric Theater is staging a rarely-performed Slavic work, this time, Cossack Beyond the Danube by Semyon Hulak-Artemovsky. Lidiya Yankovskaya will conduct a well-chosen orchestra, principal singers from great opera houses, and choristers and dancers from the local Russian/ Ukrainian community. The series of three shows begins on May 15th in Newton’s First Baptist Church. The music bright and fun, and some of it can be heard in a wonderful silent film with accompaniment here . BMInt had some questions for Executive Director, Olga Lisovskaya. BMInt: With the conflict going on between Russia and Ukraine, was producing this opera a choice dictated by the current political climate? OL: Actually, the idea to stage this delightful comedy was born before the conflict started. The year of 2013 was Verdi’s 200th Anniversary. All musical establishments were producing Verdi’s operas and all-Verdi concerts. Our theater, being […]
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