SigmArt, in partnership with The Palaces of St Petersburg, is delighted to present the legendary Greek Tragedy "Orpheus and Eurydice" from the famous Hermitage Museum, on the 27th of October at 20.00 MSK (17.00 GMT), exclusive Live streaming on SigmArt TV.

The fascinating ancient Greek Tragedy ...

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The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is an opera in three acts (seven scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on the 1834 novella of the same name by Alexande...

Live Streaming of the Sacred Opera "VIRGIN MARY. LIFE" from Holy Trinity Cathedral Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg exclusively on SigmArt Platform.

Libretto Author and Composer - Grayer Hanedanian
Art Director: Larisa Gergieva
The Roles are performed by Sololists of the Mariinsky Theat...

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From the maturity of Monteverdi to that of Cavalli, his successor at Saint Mark's Basilica and in the private theaters of the Serenissima, Venice experienced in the 17th century a veritable musical golden age. Elena is one of its most...

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Semele is a Musical Drama, originally presented "after the manner of an oratorio", in three parts by George Frederick Handel. Based on an existing opera libretto by William Congreve, the work is an opera in all but name but was first ...

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La Calisto is an opera by Francesco Cavalli from a libretto by Giovanni Faustini based on the mythological story of Callisto.
The libretto was published in 1651 by Giuliani and Batti. The story combines two myths: Jupiter's seduction ...

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The Public (El Público), opera in five scenes with a prologue is an opera by the Spanish composer Mauricio Sotelo. The libretto was written by Andrés Ibáñez, based on the play of the same name by Federico García Lorca. It pre...

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Arsilda, Regina Di Ponto is Vivaldi’s fourth opera. First performed in 1716 at Teatro Sant’Angelo in Venice, its author’s ambition was to establish his nascent domination over Venetian opera. Arsilda was a great success and was also p...

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L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppaea) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e P...

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Nabucco (initial title: Nebuchadnezzar) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi on a libretto by Temistocle Solera, taken from Nebuchadnezzar (1836), a drama by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu and premiered on M...

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Yet this enigmatic Ulisse is one of the greatest lyrical masterpieces of the nascent Baroque. Badoaro has composed an epic libretto of rare fidelity to The Odyssey (chants XII to XXII), almost literally repeating certain dialogues of ...

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Erismena is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. First performed in Venice in 1655, it was designated as a dramma per musica.
The Italian libretto was by Aurelio Aureli, the only work by this writer for Cavalli....

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Lucio Silla is an Italian Opera Seria in three acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 16. The libretto was written by Giovanni de Gamerra, revised by Pietro Metastasio.

The Roman dictator Lucio Silla covets G...

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Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's 1819 historical novel The Bride ...

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Gloriana, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, Lon...

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As the spectators take their seats, an impassive and mute man, hands in his pockets, embodies the motionless resistance on a bare stage that was initiated in 2013 in Taksim Square by Istanbul choreographer Erdem Gunduz. At the time of...

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Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it premiered in 1926 after the music was posthumou...

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Aida is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871,...

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La Wally is an opera in four acts by composer Alfredo Catalani, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 20 January 1892. It was Catalani's last opera. Wally, short for Walburga, is a girl with so...

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Phaëton is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Philippe Quinault wrote the French libretto after a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It can be read as an allegorical depiction of the punish...

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Roberto Devereux ("Robert Devereux, or the Earl of Essex") is a tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre (1829), and based as w...

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Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play of the same name. It premiered at the Salle Favart in Paris by the Opéra-Comique on ...

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Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed at La Fenice...

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Manon Lescaut is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva, based on the 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de M...