PROGRAMME

19.06 / fr / 15:00

Three Sisters

opera verbatim
Perm Humanitarian Pedagogical University Ballroom

Three Sisters
opera verbatim

A project of the graduates of the Diaghilev Festival Educational Programme
Curator Anna Fefelova

Composer Anna Pospelova
Stage Director Victoria Agarkova
Conductor Ivan Vinogradov
Production Designer Irina Deryabina
Video Artist Artur Rakhimzyanov
Producer Tamara Bezukladnikova

Cast:
Olga — Daria Seleznyova
Irina — Maria Deyeva
Masha — Anna Kholmovskaya
Andrey — Ivan Vinogradov, conductor

Instrumental Ensemble:
Daria Morozova, flute
Inna Druz, violin
Ekaterina Khristova, cello

12+
It is commonly believed that Anton Chekhov had Perm in mind when creating the setting of Three Sisters. The writer did not specify the site of action, but in a letter to Gorky dated 16 October 1900, he reported: '... the action takes place in a provincial town like Perm.' According to Perm local historians, the prototypes of the heroines could be the three Zimmerman sisters — Ottilia, Margarita and Evelina, prominent town residents of the Chekhov era.

The opera takes place at the fictional railway station of the town of N (Perm).  Here, three sisters are stuck waiting for a train to Moscow that will never arrive. During the performance, the audience, together with Chekhov’s heroines, will relive four days from their past, each corresponding to one act of the play. Each day consists of three monologue memories.

The sisters reflect on happiness and lost opportunities. Masha ponders the mistakes of her youth, living with an unloved husband and the impossibility of happiness with someone she loves. Olga — her own loneliness and responsibility for her family. Irina — the search for her self, her destiny, and love.

Verbatim pieces are embedded in the musical text of the opera — the direct speech of real women whose names match the names of the three sisters. In these verbatim extracts, our contemporaries reflect on the same questions as Chekhov's heroines more than a hundred years ago. The past and the present enter into a dialogue in search of an answer to the question that occupied Tuzenbach and Vershinin: can a person be happy now or 'happiness is only for our distant descendants'?


The opera was created as part of the Union of Composers of Russia residence with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Project partner: The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow
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Playwright Egor Zaitsev
Video Artist Mikhail Zaikanov
Costume designer Ekaterina Erdeni
Lighting Designer Elena Perelman
Producer Evgenia Karmazina
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It – this voice of mine – floats out of the murk on a callous leash...
Boris Pasternak

The joint project of the Horizons D programme and the Peredelkino Art Centre is dedicated to one of the most famous Peredelkino residents, poet and writer Boris Pasternak. The two-part composition, consisting of a prologue and a poetic one-woman show, allows us to trace the relationship between the poet's life and work – how Pasternak changed and how the language of his poems followed.

The audio prologue, created by Egor Zaitsev, a resident of the Peredelkino Art Centre, based on Pasternak's letters, becomes the entry point to the production. The drama unfolds in the field of Boris Pasternak's imaginary telephone conversations, which he conducted or could have conducted during his stay in the Urals and Peredelkino.

In the stage part of the project, director Arseny Meshcheryakov transforms Pasternak's poetic texts from different periods into a unified score, finding unexpected similarities and bringing contradictions closer together, exploring the melody of words and the metamorphosis of feelings revealed in them. For the actress of the Brusnikin Workshop Sofia Petrova, poems become a vocal and dramatic part, forming a monolithic sound structure in interaction with the electronic and noise environment created by Ivan Yerofeyev. The artistic framework of the stage action is a video installation by Mikhail Zaikanov.

 Peredelkino is a legendary village for writers that appeared near Moscow in the 1930s. Outstanding Russian literary workers of the twentieth century lived and worked here. Today, Peredelkino is a vibrant creative centre with residences, a large public programme, and spaces for work and recreation.
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audiovisual album

Stage Director Arseny Meshcheryakov
Composer Ivan Yerofeyev
Playwright Egor Zaitsev
Video Artist Mikhail Zaikanov
Costume designer Ekaterina Erdeni
Lighting Designer Elena Perelman
Producer Evgenia Karmazina
Performer:
Sofia Petrova, the Brusnikin Workshop Theatre actress

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It – this voice of mine – floats out of the murk on a callous leash...
Boris Pasternak

The joint project of the Horizons D programme and the Peredelkino Art Centre is dedicated to one of the most famous Peredelkino residents, poet and writer Boris Pasternak. The two-part composition, consisting of a prologue and a poetic one-woman show, allows us to trace the relationship between the poet's life and work – how Pasternak changed and how the language of his poems followed.

The audio prologue, created by Egor Zaitsev, a resident of the Peredelkino Art Centre, based on Pasternak's letters, becomes the entry point to the production. The drama unfolds in the field of Boris Pasternak's imaginary telephone conversations, which he conducted or could have conducted during his stay in the Urals and Peredelkino.

In the stage part of the project, director Arseny Meshcheryakov transforms Pasternak's poetic texts from different periods into a unified score, finding unexpected similarities and bringing contradictions closer together, exploring the melody of words and the metamorphosis of feelings revealed in them. For the actress of the Brusnikin Workshop Sofia Petrova, poems become a vocal and dramatic part, forming a monolithic sound structure in interaction with the electronic and noise environment created by Ivan Yerofeyev. The artistic framework of the stage action is a video installation by Mikhail Zaikanov.

 Peredelkino is a legendary village for writers that appeared near Moscow in the 1930s. Outstanding Russian literary workers of the twentieth century lived and worked here. Today, Peredelkino is a vibrant creative centre with residences, a large public programme, and spaces for work and recreation.
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Pasternak. The Unleashed Voice
audiovisual album

Stage Director Arseny Meshcheryakov
Composer Ivan Yerofeyev
Playwright Egor Zaitsev
Video Artist Mikhail Zaikanov
Costume designer Ekaterina Erdeni
Lighting Designer Elena Perelman
Producer Evgenia Karmazina
Performer:
Sofia Petrova, the Brusnikin Workshop Theatre actress

12+

It – this voice of mine – floats out of the murk on a callous leash...
Boris Pasternak

The joint project of the Horizons D programme and the Peredelkino Art Centre is dedicated to one of the most famous Peredelkino residents, poet and writer Boris Pasternak. The two-part composition, consisting of a prologue and a poetic one-woman show, allows us to trace the relationship between the poet's life and work – how Pasternak changed and how the language of his poems followed.

The audio prologue, created by Egor Zaitsev, a resident of the Peredelkino Art Centre, based on Pasternak's letters, becomes the entry point to the production. The drama unfolds in the field of Boris Pasternak's imaginary telephone conversations, which he conducted or could have conducted during his stay in the Urals and Peredelkino.

In the stage part of the project, director Arseny Meshcheryakov transforms Pasternak's poetic texts from different periods into a unified score, finding unexpected similarities and bringing contradictions closer together, exploring the melody of words and the metamorphosis of feelings revealed in them. For the actress of the Brusnikin Workshop Sofia Petrova, poems become a vocal and dramatic part, forming a monolithic sound structure in interaction with the electronic and noise environment created by Ivan Yerofeyev. The artistic framework of the stage action is a video installation by Mikhail Zaikanov.

 Peredelkino is a legendary village for writers that appeared near Moscow in the 1930s. Outstanding Russian literary workers of the twentieth century lived and worked here. Today, Peredelkino is a vibrant creative centre with residences, a large public programme, and spaces for work and recreation.
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House of Music, Small Theatre Hall

Pasternak. The Unleashed Voice
audiovisual album

Stage Director Arseny Meshcheryakov
Composer Ivan Yerofeyev
Playwright Egor Zaitsev
Video Artist Mikhail Zaikanov
Costume designer Ekaterina Erdeni
Lighting Designer Elena Perelman
Producer Evgenia Karmazina
Performer:
Sofia Petrova, the Brusnikin Workshop Theatre actress

12+

It – this voice of mine – floats out of the murk on a callous leash...
Boris Pasternak

The joint project of the Horizons D programme and the Peredelkino Art Centre is dedicated to one of the most famous Peredelkino residents, poet and writer Boris Pasternak. The two-part composition, consisting of a prologue and a poetic one-woman show, allows us to trace the relationship between the poet's life and work – how Pasternak changed and how the language of his poems followed.

The audio prologue, created by Egor Zaitsev, a resident of the Peredelkino Art Centre, based on Pasternak's letters, becomes the entry point to the production. The drama unfolds in the field of Boris Pasternak's imaginary telephone conversations, which he conducted or could have conducted during his stay in the Urals and Peredelkino.

In the stage part of the project, director Arseny Meshcheryakov transforms Pasternak's poetic texts from different periods into a unified score, finding unexpected similarities and bringing contradictions closer together, exploring the melody of words and the metamorphosis of feelings revealed in them. For the actress of the Brusnikin Workshop Sofia Petrova, poems become a vocal and dramatic part, forming a monolithic sound structure in interaction with the electronic and noise environment created by Ivan Yerofeyev. The artistic framework of the stage action is a video installation by Mikhail Zaikanov.

 Peredelkino is a legendary village for writers that appeared near Moscow in the 1930s. Outstanding Russian literary workers of the twentieth century lived and worked here. Today, Peredelkino is a vibrant creative centre with residences, a large public programme, and spaces for work and recreation.
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