“One of the best contemporary geniuses”, including “operas, ballets and symphonies have been played for several decades in the world’s largest stages” that remained on Thursday night to Friday, at the age of 92, said the Bolchoi Theater in Moscow.
“Rodion Chtchedrine is a unique phenomenon and an entire era in the life of global musical culture,” says the press release, depliating a “huge tragedy” and an “irreparable loss” for the artistic world.
Born on December 16, 1932 in Moscow, the composer became known in the West with Carmen SuiteBallet Music written in 1967 who made his wife shine, the great Russian dancer, Maïa Plissetskaïa, on the stage of Bolchoi. Consecrated by the Bolchoi “Prima Ballerina Assoluta”, the latter died in 2015.
From “La Mouette” A “Lolita”
Inspired by fairy tales and Russian classical literature, Rodion Chtchedrine also composed the ballets The little humpback horse, Anna Karenina (According to Léon Tolstoi), The seagull (According to Anton Tchekov).
Opera LolitaComposed according to Nabokov’s controversial novel and whose world premiere took place in 1994 in Stockholm, it also distinguished itself by its symphonies and its concerts for the piano and the orchestra performed in Europe, as in Asia and the United States.
Rich in more than 80 works in total, “the invaluable artistic heritage of Chtchedrine always finds an echo in the hearts of the public,” said the Bolchoi.
Source: BFM TV
