Life for the king. Opera by Mikhail Glinka - 11 March 2025, 10:34

The premiere of Mikhail Glinka’s opera “Life for the Tsar” is timed to the 150th anniversary of the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Jalil. Kazan Opera pays tribute to its predecessors, it has become not only conceptual, but also social. In the title part, Ivan Susanin, the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater and the M. Jalil Theater bass Mikhail Kazakov performed the part of his daughter Antonida performed by the prima of the Kazan opera Gulnor Gatin, the part of the militiaman Sobinin was performed by Ivan Gyngazov ("New Opera"), Ekaterina Sergeeva (Mariin Theater) appeared on the stage of the Kazan opera. The director was made by the famous opera director Yuri Alexandrov, the production artist Vyacheslav Okunev (St. Petersburg). The production is attended by an orchestra, choir, mimic ensemble of the Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Jalil. Conductor – Andrei Anikhanov (St. Petersburg). The programme includes an introduction. About the production of the opera tell: the director of TAGTOIB named after M. Jalil Raufal Mukhametzyanov, the director of the production Yuri Alexandrov and Gulnora Gatin, the performer of the role of Antonida.