Karol Szymanowski – King Roger (2008)

1. Introduction
2. Act I
3. Intermission 1
4. Act II
5. Intermission 2
6. Act III
7. End Comments

Roger - Andrzej Dobber (baritone)
Roxana - Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano)
Edrisi - Sergei Semishkur (tenor
Shepherd - Pavlo Tolstoy (tenor)
Archbishop - Yury Vorobiev (bass)
Deaconess - Lyubov Sokolova (mezzo soprano)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinksy Opera
Valery Gergiev - Conductor

Edinburgh, Festival Theatre, Mon 25 & Wed Aug 27, 2008

Opera-philes have lean pickings at Edinburgh this year, but there is something special. The highlight of the Mariinsky Theatre's short festival residency is Karol Szymanowski's masterpiece, Król Roger, a struggle between rationality and Dionysian abandon set in 12th-century Sicily. It's one of the landmarks in early 20th-century opera, and hasn't been seen in Britain for more than 20 years. The Mariinsky's production, which is directed by Mariusz Trelinski, has a Polish-Russian mixed cast, Valery Gergiev conducts, and the score is exactly the kind of heady music that brings out all his best theatrical instincts. --- Andrew Clements, theguardian.com

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