The tragedy of Antigone is a direct confirmation of the Greek saying: “Above all else in human life is the law, and the unwritten law is higher than written.” In order to regret the weak, honor the gods, respect and love your loved ones, you do not need to issue a law. Each person is … Read more
Stanislav Moniuszko 1819-1872 Moniuszko – the founder of Polish opera classics – left a vast legacy. He wrote about three hundred songs, cantatas, works for symphonic orchestra, piano and other compositions. Works of Moniuszko are characterized by simplicity and cordiality, an abundance of beautiful, full expressiveness and poetic melodies. In his music, permeated with elements … Read more
Pietro Mascagni 1863-1945 Mascagni – one of the representatives of operatic faith. This direction arose under the influence of Italian literature and theater of the late XIX century. Heroes from the social lower classes, from the underprivileged and the poor, unreasoned life conflicts and human destinies, clashes of passions and characters – these are the … Read more
NN Nosov Neznaika on the Moon Events develop two and a half years after visiting the shorts of Sunny City Znayka, along with their scientists, Selyedochka and Fuchsia from the Sun City, flew to the moon and wanted to fly by himself. This idea is very interested in the astronomer Steklyashkin and other residents of … Read more
This happened with the lamentations of Foma Grigorievich to the listeners, who first try out some terrible story, and then all night they tremble with fear, hiding under the blanket. But here he starts the story that happened to his grandfather, whom the hetman of the nobleman sent with a letter to the queen. After … Read more
That spring we finished the ninth grade. Each of us had plans for the future. I (Volodya Belov), for example, was going to become a geologist. Sasha Krieger was supposed to go to the medical institute, because the doctor was his father. Vitka Anikin wanted to become a teacher. Sasha and Vitka were friends with … Read more
In the village house of Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, a former beauty and a capital lioness who, far from civilization, still organizes a salon, is waiting for a certain baron, scholar and connoisseur of philosophy who promised to acquaint her with her scientific research. Lasunskaya takes the conversation with the audience. … Read more
Cossacks, Cossacks, guests, servants of Kochubei, serdeyuki, monks, hangmen. The action takes place in Ukraine at the beginning of the XVIII century. In the summer of 1881, while resting in Ukraine, in his beloved Kamenka, Tchaikovsky sketched out the opera plan for the plot of Pushkin’s poem “Mazepa” (1828). “One day,” he says, “I read … Read more
Part one. Sier Klyuben That day it was snowing. Parisian man was following the girl. The girl was Deryusheta – one of the most charming on the island. The man was a lodger, Deryushetta wrote his name on the snow, Zhiliat lived in the Sensanson parish, but he was not liked because his house was … Read more
Paul Claudel Satin slipper The action unfolds in the late XVI or early XVII century. on four continents, everywhere where Spain has any possessions or where it is trying to conquer something else, and also on the sea, that is, the giant scene of this voluminous five hundred pages, the play is the whole world, … Read more