CHIO-CHIO-SAN (MADAME BUTTERFLY) Opera in two acts (three scenes) Libretto by L. Illik and D. Giacosa Characters: Chio-Cio-san (Madame Butterfly) Suzuki, the maid Cio-Cio-san Pinkerton, Lieutenant of the American Navy Cat, his wife Sharples, American Consul Goro, matchmaker Prince Yamadori Bonze Commissar Registry Officer Son of Cio-Cio-san Soprano Mezzo soprano Tenor Soprano Baritone Tenor Tenor … Read more
A fishing net is thrown with a bait net, and a flock of seagulls flies “to steal food by cunning or force.” Only one seagull named Jonathan Livingston makes his training flights all alone. Jonathan violates all the unwritten laws of the Pack – hangs in the air, flies low over the water and develops … Read more
“War is declared!” The first world. “Our company is in reserve.” “Our age, we are all of different age, our regiment is a reserve, it was consistently supplemented by reinforcements – then the personnel units, then the militiamen.” “Where are we from? From different areas, we came from everywhere.” “What did we do? What do … Read more
N. G. Garin-Mikhailovsky The gymnasiums It is in this part of the narrative that the main circle of the main character’s friends is formed (the company consisting of Kartashev, Kornev, Dolby, Berendi, Lario and Darcy) and their common interests. The initial confrontation (the “Kartashev party” – the “Kornev party”) of the two most respected and … Read more
“Poets write a lot about the eagles in verse, and always with praise, so if they want to sing in the verses of a policeman, for example, they surely compare it to the eagle.” The narrator is surprised why the eagle forgave the mouse, and not vice versa. But after all “it’s not at all … Read more
IS Shmelev The Man from the Restaurant After the passage of time, Yakov Sofronych realized: it all started with the suicide of Krivoy, their tenant. Before that, he quarreled with Skorokhodov and promised to inform that Kolyushka and Kirill Severyanich about politics are arguing. He, Krivoi, in the detective department serves. And he managed to … Read more
NA Nekrasov, the poet paid great attention to children: he dedicated his poems to them. In the light came his works such as “Poems dedicated to Russian children” (1867, 1870), “Shkolnik” (1856), “Lamentations of Children” (1860) and many others. The theme of childhood constantly echoes in the poems of Nekrasov with the theme of Russia … Read more
The action takes place in the modern author of the play of Germany. The plot unfolds for two years. Drama is preceded by the epigraph of Hippocrates, which in the Russian translation reads: “What medicines do not heal, heals iron, which does not heal iron, heals fire.” The plot is based on a family tragedy. … Read more
The work has a subtitle “A Tale of a Girl”. The writer shows three stages in her life: staying in the parental home, the war period and her future after the war. The main character of the story is Olga Zotova, daughter of an Old Believer merchant, who lived in Kazan. At night they were … Read more
The novel is collected from the voices of real women. They say that their destinies are entwined with the war. Among the voices of the living is the author’s excited comment. The idea that war is murder and hard work, and next to it ordinary life with songs, loves, curlers, attire. Death is near – … Read more