The performance “Wedding” entered the program of the festival “Biomechanics”

The festival "Biomechanics" ends with the show "Wedding". An unusual version of Stravinsky’s ballet is a joint project of the New Opera and the Ballet Moscow. Modern music was introduced into the score, a sudden storyline was introduced into the production, and an instrument was introduced into the orchestra, about which the composer himself only dreamed. Details from Lydia Aleshina. “I wanted to write a cantata glorifying a village wedding,” Stravinsky wrote in his memoirs about the original idea of the Wedding. The composer dreamed of sounding mechanical musical instruments, but to implement the idea of Stravinsky failed. The piano was supposed to be a mechanical piano. Based on the fact that today we have electronic analogues of disclavier, I suggested starting with this. Try to implement Stravinsky’s idea authentically, says composer, founder and art director of the multimedia festival of contemporary music Biomechanics Nikolai Popov. To Stravinsky’s Wedding Nikolai Popov wrote a prologue and epilogue. The 25-minute ballet is now an hour away. He used the folklore of different regions of Russia. Authentic sound combined with multimedia and electronics. “I am engaged in synchronization between the pianos, musicians, so that everything plays, works together, so that the pianos play simultaneously from each other does not lag behind,” says sound engineer Ilya Kowalsky. On the stage is a complex construction with a wooden platform. The orchestra pit is closed. Musicians on stage. And the conductor's seat in the front row. “I can feel the breathing of the room. A lot of people come for it. Watch the clavinols play by themselves, without the pianists. They play what our pianists recorded. It's not a mechanical sound, and our pianists recorded those parts. And they sound in the recording, notes the conductor, musical director of the play Dmitry Volosnikov. In this production there are no collective images of the groom and bride from the people. Choreographer Pavel Glukhov the heroes of Stravinsky’s “Wedding” made Katerina and Tikhon from Ostrovsky’s “Thunderstorm”. Characters without the right to vote, deprived of freedom of choice. Colorful rites, patriarchal way of life. “When the boys and girls come out, the choreography is insanely complex. Hands, feet flying in all directions. The scene is small, but it needs to be taken to the maximum. When the work of musicians and dancers is combined, it is a magical state, explains ballet artist Timur Batalov. The color palette, the tablecloth on the wedding table are all symbols. Motive of doom. A wooden platform is like a road to the scaffold. The finale of this "Wedding" by Ostrovsky.

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