Kirov Opera (DVD)

Three classic and faithful productions of the most popular Russian operas by the Kirov Opera under the direction of Valery Gergiev. The operas were performed in 1996 and 1998, at the Mariinsky Theatre (formerly the Kirov Theatre), a venue as steeped in history as the three operas themselves.

Mazeppa and Prince Igor are historical dramas of war, death and passion set in the Russian Tsarist Empire, while The Betrothal at the Monastery takes an enjoyable look at the trials and tribulations of love in a feudal Spain - history lessons and romantic tales, side by side.

Disk 1 - DVD

1. Serge Prokofieff: Präludium
2. Serge Prokofieff: But that is just fantasy! (1. Akt)
3. Serge Prokofieff: Plain, round-shouldered
4. Serge Prokofieff: She has shaken your hand
5. Serge Prokofieff: The moon looks in at your window
6. Serge Prokofieff: Stop that mewing
7. Serge Prokofieff: Masker's dance
8. Serge Prokofieff: I had better get her married off
9. Serge Prokofieff: Friends depart
10. Serge Prokofieff: It will work, Nanny, won't it? (2. Akt)
11. Serge Prokofieff: Splendid, Señor, splendid
12. Serge Prokofieff: Will you cherish me in my old age?
13. Serge Prokofieff: Give it back!
14. Serge Prokofieff: If you have a daughter, believe me
15. Serge Prokofieff: It looks like the first act has been played out
16. Serge Prokofieff: Buy some fish from Señor Mendoza's barges!
17. Serge Prokofieff: Rosina... Rosina
18. Serge Prokofieff: Ferdinand alone is dearer
19. Serge Prokofieff: I had known what pranks
20. Serge Prokofieff: My beard! My beard is not at all bad
21. Serge Prokofieff: There is no greater happiness
22. Serge Prokofieff: Yes, yes, yes, yes
23. Serge Prokofieff: My pretty...my pretty..
24. Serge Prokofieff: When the cheerful fop
25. Serge Prokofieff: Well?
26. Serge Prokofieff: Ah, time does not want (3. Akt)
27. Serge Prokofieff: Come in, come in
28. Serge Prokofieff: Should we take a sly look through a chink?
29. Serge Prokofieff: It's bad to peep
30. Serge Prokofieff: How my soul is beaming!
31. Serge Prokofieff: You are not playing in tune
32. Serge Prokofieff: My respectful greetings to the Señor
33. Serge Prokofieff: Please, let us continue
34. Serge Prokofieff: Lopez!
35. Serge Prokofieff: Here I am, a nun
36. Serge Prokofieff: They have gone gladdened, happy and in love
37. Serge Prokofieff: It must be here
38. Serge Prokofieff: The bottle is the sun of our lives (4. Akt)
39. Serge Prokofieff: To the pretty nun from the Convent
40. Serge Prokofieff: Father Chartreuse, someone has knocked
41. Serge Prokofieff: Take care, Antonio!
42. Serge Prokofieff: Straight down to business now, Don Ferdinand
43. Serge Prokofieff: I can't understand it
44. Serge Prokofieff: Aha, here's Mendoza at last
45. Serge Prokofieff: What is this? Why are you here?
46. Serge Prokofieff: Son! At last
47. Serge Prokofieff: Don Jerome, Don Jerome!

Disk 2 - DVD

1. Alexander Borodin: Ouvertüre
2. Alexander Borodin: Introduktion
3. Alexander Borodin: Idem na bran's vragom Rusi!
4. Alexander Borodin: Knaz'ja, pora nam vystupat'
5. Alexander Borodin: Puskaj sebe idut
6. Alexander Borodin: Ach, lada, moja, lada!
7. Alexander Borodin: Tebe, kak bratu, ee ja porucaji
8. Alexander Borodin: Chor der Polowetzer Mädchen
9. Alexander Borodin: Tanz der Polowetzer Mädchen
10. Alexander Borodin: Cavatina
11. Alexander Borodin: Chor
12. Alexander Borodin: Rezitativ - Cavatina
13. Alexander Borodin: Ach! Gde ty, gde?
14. Alexander Borodin: Duett
15. Alexander Borodin: Nu ctoz otec tvoj?
16. Alexander Borodin: Arie
17. Alexander Borodin: Szene
18. Alexander Borodin: Arie
19. Alexander Borodin: O net, net, drug
20. Alexander Borodin: Rezitativ
21. Alexander Borodin: Polowetzer Tänze - Chor
22. Alexander Borodin: Slavoj dedam raven chan nas

Disk 3 - DVD

1. Alexander Borodin: Chor
2. Alexander Borodin: Rezitativ - Lied
3. Alexander Borodin: Tol'ko b mne dozdat'sja cesti
4. Alexander Borodin: Knjazju Galickomu slava!
5. Alexander Borodin: Szene
6. Alexander Borodin: Lied zu Ehren von Prinz Galitsky
7. Alexander Borodin: A ctoz I vprjam' v knjaz'ja ego posadim!
8. Alexander Borodin: Arioso
9. Alexander Borodin: Szene
10. Alexander Borodin: Szene
11. Alexander Borodin: Finale
12. Alexander Borodin: Nam, knjaginja, ne vpervye
13. Alexander Borodin: Polowetzer Marsch
14. Alexander Borodin: Lied
15. Alexander Borodin: Rezitativ
16. Alexander Borodin: Monolog
17. Alexander Borodin: Rezitativ
18. Alexander Borodin: Finale
19. Alexander Borodin: Lament
20. Alexander Borodin: Bauernchor
21. Alexander Borodin: Rezitativ - Duett
22. Alexander Borodin: On, moj sokol jasny!
23. Alexander Borodin: Gudoks Spieler Lied, Szene und Chor
24. Alexander Borodin: Narod! Sjuda!
25. Alexander Borodin: Epilog

Disk 4 - DVD

1. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Ouvertüre
2. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Mädchenchor - Szene (1. Akt)
3. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Szene, Arioso und Duett
4. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Szene
5. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Chor - Tanz
6. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Hopak
7. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Szene - Arioso
8. Peter Iljitsch TschaikowskyStreitszene
9. Peter Iljitsch TschaikowskyChor - Mutters Klage
10. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Finale
11. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Gefängnisszene - Andante (2. Akt)
12. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Mazeppas Monolg - Szene mit Orlik
13. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Mazeppas Arioso
14. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Mazeppas Szene mit Maria
15. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Szene zwischen Mafia und ihrer Mutter
16. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Szene
17. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Finale
18. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Die Schlacht von Poltawa (3. Akt)
19. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Szene - Andreys Arie
20. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Szene - Duett
21. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Szene
22. Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Finale