Nocturne is an opera in one act by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko written in 1912 and first performed in Kyiv soon after composer's death.
| Nocturne | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Mykola Lysenko | |
| Librettist | Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska |
| Language | Ukrainian |
| Based on | song "Vremia Nevozvratnoe" |
| Premiere | Kyiv |
Libreto to this opera wrote Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska (1868–1941), the daughter of Mikhailo Starytsky (1840–1904), who was Lysenko's friend. The same as in the previous opera Eneid", Lysenko retreated from patriotic themes and folklore and chose a modern plot, in which a folk song and romantic song contrast to each other as representations of the past and modern. As a characteristic motive for the old world, the composer chose the salon song "Vremia Nevozvratnoe", which sings his mother Olga Eeremiyevna Lutsenkova.[1] According to Sigrid Neef, "this opera geniusly reflects the position of the intellectual between the bourgeois revolution defeated and the socialist revolution".[2]
The opera entered the repertoire of Ukrainian theaters (for example, in 1927 it was first placed in Odessa), and in the 1930s it was broadcast on the radio in Lviv.[3] Opera rarely falls into the repertoire of theaters, but performed in opera studios of musical educational institutions, in particular conservatories in Kyiv[4] and Lviv.[5]
References
edit- ^ Сінькова C. (2012). "Подвижник людського духу" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Хмельницька міська рада.
- ^ Neef, Sigrid. Handbuch der russischen und sowjetischen Oper (in German). Henschelverlag. p. 239.
- ^ Дмитровський Є. "Українські музиканти в передачах львівського радіо (1930—1939-ті рр.)" (PDF). Tele- Ta Radiožurnalistyka: Zbirnyk Naukovych Pracʹ [TV and Radio Journalism: Collection of Scholarly Articles] (in Ukrainian). Vol. 2012, no. 11. p. 205. ISSN 2078-1911.[dead link]
- ^ "Народна оперна студія" (in Ukrainian). Міжнародний центр культури та мистецтв ФПУ.
- ^ Царенко Ю. [Tsarenko, Yu.] (2012-03-22), Сьогодні 170 років з дня народження Миколи Лисенка – Відзначення у Львові [Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of Mykola Lysenko - Commemoration in Lviv] (in Ukrainian), Рідна країна [Native Country]
External links
edit- Sheet music
- Audio recording from 1991, Ukrainian radio
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