Private Opera
The Private Opera (Russian: Частная Опера), also known as:
- The Russian Private Opera (Русская Частная Опера);
- Moscow Private Russian Opera, (Московская Частная Русская Опера);
- Mamontov's Private Russian Opera in Moscow (Мамонтова Частная Русская Опера в Москве);
- Korotkov's Theatre (Театр Кроткова, 1885-1888);
- Vinter's Theatre (Театр Винтера, 1896-1899);
- Private Opera Society (Товарищество Частной Оперы, 1899-1904); and
- Solodovnikov Theatre (Театр Солодовникова, from 1895; later used by Zimin opera, Moscow Operetta, and Helikon Opera)
was a private operatic enterprise, a company established in 1885 by Russian
philanthropist Savva Mamontov
, who staged the operas, conducted the orchestra, trained the actors, taught them singing and paid all the expenses.
The company
At first the company was organised in Abramtsevo Estate located north of Moscow.
Later years
In Moscow the opera was located in the house at the Bolshaya Dmitrovskaya street, known as "Solodovnikov Theatre", built in 1894–1895 by Russiant merchant and music lover
Mayakovsky Theater
).
The repertoire included many operas by foreign composers as well as the following works by Russian composers:
- 1885 – A Life for the Tsar by Mikhail Glinka;
- 1885 – The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov;
- 1885 – Rusalka by Alexander Dargomyzhsky;
- 1886 – The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky;
- 1886 – Rogneda by Alexander Serov;
- 1886 – Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin;
- 1886 – The Demon by Anton Rubinstein;
- 1897 – Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – world premiere;
- 1897 – Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky;
- 1898 – Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky;
- 1898 – Mozart and Salieri by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – world premiere;
- 1898 – Boyarinya Vera Sheloga by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – world premiere;
- 1898 – Judith by Alexander Serov;
- 1899 – The Tsar's Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – world premiere;
- 1899 – Pyotr Tchaikovsky;
- 1900 – Pyotr Tchaikovsky;
- 1900 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan... by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov– world premiere;
- 1900 – Asya by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov;
- 1901 – The Merchant Kalashnikov by Anton Rubinstein;
- 1902 – Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka;
- 1902 – Kashchey the Immortal by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov– world premiere;
- 1903 – Legend About the Great City of Kitezh and the Quiet Lake Svetoyar by Sergei Vasilenko, and other.
Final years
In late 1890s, Mamontov consolidated a large lot of land in central Moscow, across from
Hotel Metropol
, was completed without theater by Petersburg Insurance Company.
Meanwhile, from 1899 until 1904 the company existed without Mamontov, and changed its name to "Private Opera Society" (Tovarishchestvo chastnoi opery).
See also
- Russian opera
- Russian opera articles
Bibliography
- Haldey, Olga (2010). Mamontov's Private Opera : the search for modernism in Russian theater . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35468-6.
External links
- The Russian Cultural Navigator: THE MOSCOW MEDICI (about Savva Mamontov)
- The Russian Cultural Navigator: SAVVA MAMONTOV
- Moskva.ru: Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Mamontov's Moscow Private Russian Opera
- Chaliapin and Private Russian Opera
- Caliber: Savva Mamontov, Serge Diaghilev, and a Rocky Path to Modernism
- Rachmaninoff at the Private Opera
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