LoginRimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of The Invisible City of Kitezh - Region 0 DVD
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The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing
Mongol army's entry to Great Kitezh and the city's subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of
his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that 'is contemporary and even fairly advanced'. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at
Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer's rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.
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Manufacturer: NAXOS OF AMERICA DVD
Release date: 13 December 2011
EAN: 0747313527755 UPC: 747313527755
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Release date: 13 December 2011
EAN: 0747313527755 UPC: 747313527755
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