The Little Prince: opera-tale

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"The Little Prince..."

"Once upon a time there lived the Little Prince. He lived on the planet, which was a little bigger than he himself and he wanted to have a friend…" Everyone knows these magic words, which carry us to the world of talking foxes, capricious roses and great kindness and mystery. A pedagogue and conductor of Magnitogorsk State Conservatoire Sariya Malyukova was dreaming to perform this tale with her children of a musical group . Her creative experience is rather large - 25 years of work with children and it's high time to sum up. The spectators of Magnitogorsk have already seen a lot of musical tales performed by this musical group, such as "The Song in the Forest", "The Scrip's Tale" and others. The time for a serious experiment has come. "The Little Prince" is not just a musical tale, it's an opera. Sariya Malyukova says: "It's a very kind and wise tale. Everyone will find something important for oneself. "The Little Prince" - is Koran and Bible both for children and adults. For example, my daughter studies this book in the second form and she understands everything in it. As for adults they understand it in their own way…"
An idea to perform the opera was born in autumn of 1999. There was no doubt that the music to it had to be written by Vladimir Sidorov. V. Sidorov and S. Malyukova have been working together for 10 years. He has written the music for "The Scrip's Tale" and the concert program "We And Song are Inseparable". Sariya Malyukova says: "Vladimir Alexandrovich is astonishing man. He has no ambitions or arrogance. He just creates". The opera was written and staged for a short time, for 3 months. There were a lot of problems, but all of them were solved magically… Sariya Malyukova has 2 choir groups - juniors and seniors. They worked together and the first-formers were taught by the seniors. The parents also supported that project. The girls rehearsed their roles to the Phonograms at home, and had to go to bed late at night and to get up early in the morning with this tale. They came home from the rehearsals at 9 and 12 o'clock sometimes. But still all of them enjoyed this hard work. The music helped them. It's very interesting, full of sense and they memorised it easily. S. Malyukova says: "The music is composed in the modern rhythms. Duets, monologues, choir scenes are organically connected. The music is natural, it has no false and hypocrisy". One of the main merits of the opera is that it is composed on the author's original text. The language of the tale is beautiful, capacious and musical".
The premiere has taken place in the Grand-hall of the Conservatoire on the 19 of May, 2000. The performers of the main roles did their best. A soloist of the choir Julya Karimova played a difficult part of the Little Prince. The role includes a lot of vocal scenes, dialogues, recitatives and poetic insertions. Julya's manager has a high opinion of the girl: "Undoubtedly, she is talented and her voice is like a clean spring. Besides, she is a well brought up and modest girl. It is pleasant to work with such children". Dasha Kovalyova plays two important roles - the Fox and the Rose. Her characters express the main idea of the tale. The girl has a large experience, she has been singing for 5 years. The Snake is also a philosophic role, which was played by Nastya Kozhevnikova. During his travels on the planets the Little Prince met the Business Man (Katya Tretyakova), the King (Masha Chelmakina), the Ambitious Person (Nurzilya Ishberdina). Nurzilya learned her role very quickly and replaced a sick performer. The choir was organically included into the events on the stage and determined the main outline of the opera.
Liya Kinebayeva is a costumier of the opera. Her costumes are non-ordinary and surprising. A choreographic group enriches the opera. It adds entertainment and accentuates the meaning. It is not by chance that the dancers from school № 65 and their choreograph Galina Galashenko were invited. Two creative groups worked together and were a success.

Eugenia Schevtchenko
"Magnitogorsk news"
3.06.00

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