KOSCHEI THE IMMORTAL (Autumn Fairy Tale) Opera in one act (three pictures, going without interruption) Characters: Koschei the Immortal Unreal beauty Ivan the King’s son Kashcheyevna Storm-bogatyr – the wind Tenor Soprano Baritone Mezzo soprano Bass Invisible voices (backstage choruses). The action takes place in the kingdom of Kashchei and in the Thirtieth Kingdom. HISTORY … Read more
The main character – a young man named Werther, he is inclined to poetry and painting. A young man settles in a small town, wishing to be alone. Here he communicates with ordinary people, enjoys nature, draws and reads Homer. Werther is invited to a youth country ball where he meets a certain Charlotte S., … Read more
A. Strindberg Father Events unfold during one day in the living room of the military’s house in the 80’s. XIX century. The Captain and the Pastor are dealing with the case of Private Noida. He received a complaint – he does not want to give money for the maintenance of his illegitimate child. Noid excuses … Read more
SP Zalygin On the Irtysh River March was the month of nine hundred and thirty-one. In the village of Steep Luki, the windows of the collective farm office were burning late, the board was sitting, then the peasants simply converged and judged without end, they talked about their affairs. Spring was approaching. Sowing. Just now … Read more
T. Wilder Bridge of King Louis of the Holy On the twentieth of July, 1714, the most beautiful bridge in Peru collapsed, dropping five travelers into the abyss. The catastrophe struck Peruvians tremendously: the bridge of King Louis of Saint saw something unshakable, existing forever. But although everything was shocked, only one person, Brother Uniiper, … Read more
The play, based on the motifs of the myth about Edil, unfolds in ancient Greece. The Queen of Thebes of Jocasta, in order to prevent the oracle’s prediction that her son, when he grows up, will kill his father, King of Leah, the king of Thebes, seventeen years ago ordered the servant to injure the … Read more
VN Voinovich Life and extraordinary adventures of the soldier Ivan Chonkin It happened before the war, either at the end of May or at the beginning of June 1941. The postman Nyurka Belyashev from the village of Krasnoye, peeling potatoes in the vegetable garden, glanced at the sky – dinner? – and saw a huge … Read more
Thirty-three-year-old hero-narrator Philippe Marlo, who previously worked in the district attorney’s office of Los Angeles, has now become a private detective and is investigating cases in which his clients are not interested in publicity. He is at the home of the millionaire Guy Sternwood, who informs Marlo that a certain Geiger blackmails his youngest daughter … Read more
LI Dobychin City En I go to the patronal feast in the prison church together with Maman and Alexandra Lvovna Ley. Here we meet “mademazel” Gorshkov and her little students. I read about the city of En, about Chichikov and Manilov. We go for a walk with the nurse Cecilia, she leads me to the … Read more
In the province of Madrid comes noble nobleman Liseo along with his servant Turin. Liceu will have a wedding. Phineas, his future wife is the daughter of a respected and well-known nobleman Octavio. Octavio has one more daughter – Nisa, who in her district is famous for a very uncommon mind and the same education. … Read more