Revival of opera in Russia Art

Jul 09, 2023

Moscow (Russia), July 09 (ANI/ TV BRICS): A truly grandiose stunt! "The Merry Widow" moves from Paris to Los Angeles, or to be more precise, to Hollywood! With the opening notes of Aleksey Frandetti's new staging, Franz Lehár's opera and the genre as a whole are given a new lease on life. According to the plot, Hollywood star Gabrielle Glover is supposed to star in the same film with her ex Daniel Diamond. After they broke up in their youth – he sought solace in the numerous affairs, changing women "like gloves", and she - married a movie mogul and soon became a widow. Meeting each other on a film set is like a moment of truth, and it's as if all those years didn't happen. The chic and glamour of the art deco era, and the union of the two worlds of theatre and film, which become one with real life. The project team had already erased the boundaries during rehearsals. The actors didn't really swap roles, but almost everyone was able to try on a new part. What has remained unchanged is the original music by Franz Lehár. In its almost a hundred years of history, it has been staged thousands of times. In different languages, on stages all over the world, the critics say the Merry Widow in Aleksey Frandetti's version has grown younger, prettier, but it has remained true to itself.