The “Great Bharat” is an ancient Indian epic consisting of approximately one hundred thousand couplets-schloks, divided into 18 books, and includes many false episodes, one way or another related to the main narrative. In the city of Hastinapur, the capital of the country of Bharat, the mighty sovereign Pandu reigned. By the curse of a … Read more
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Comic opera in four acts (five scenes) Libretto by A. Gozenpud Characters: Petruccio, a nobleman from Verona Baptista Manola, rich merchant Baritone Bass Katharina Bianca } His daughter Soprano Soprano Lucentio Hortensio } Lovers in Bianca Tenor Bass Gromio Curtis } Servants of Petruccio Bass Tenor Biondello, Baptist servant Tailor … Read more
A young woman complains to the kuma that her elderly husband is not able to extinguish the flame of her love passion. Kuma advises her to seek solace on the side and have a lover. Their conversation is eavesdropped by a monk, Brother Gilbert, a libertine and voluptuary. He offers the old man’s wife his … Read more
Charles Perrault Cinderella The new wife of the respectable man disliked his kind and beautiful daughter. Father girl stepmother kept under his heel, so Cinderella, for which there was no one to intercede, was with the evil woman and her two daughters as a servant, and spent all her free time on the ash box. … Read more
One day in August a person goes on a three-day vacation to replenish his collection of insects with rare species found in the sands. He gets on the train to station S, transits to the bus and, getting off at the last stop, goes on foot. He passes the village and goes by the sandy … Read more
Terkin is killed in battle. It’s clean, it looks like a subway. The commandant orders Terkin to get formalized. Account table, check table, table. At Turkin they demand a certificate, they require a photo card, a certificate from a doctor. Terkin undergoes medical treatment. Everywhere pointers, inscriptions, tables. There are no complaints here. The editor … Read more
Erotic-allegorical poem in honor of Krishna – Govinda, the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu In the blossoming spring time in the Vrndavana forest on the bank of the Yamuna, Krishna Radha’s lover is languishing in separation from her beloved. The friend tells that Krishna leads cheerful round dances with charming cowherd boys, “hugs one, … Read more
EUGENE ONEGIN Lyrical scenes in three acts (seven scenes) Libretto by PI Tchaikovsky and KS Shilovsky Characters: Larin, the landowner Mezzo soprano Tatyana Olga } Her daughters Soprano Contralto Filippievna, the nurse Eugene Onegin Lensky Prince Gremin Rotum Zaretsky Trick, the Frenchman Guillot, Onegin’s valet Mezzo soprano Baritone Tenor Bass Bass Bass Tenor Without speeches … Read more
Part one “Evenings…”, consisting of 8 stories, are divided into exactly 2 parts, and each is preceded by a preface of the imaginary publisher. In the first, describing his farm, he gives the characteristics of some particularly colorful inhabitants of Dikanka that they woo in the evenings in the “Pasichnikov hovel” and tell those strange … Read more
King Demyan lived in a certain kingdom. He had three sons: Clim, Peter and Ivan. In the beautiful garden of the king grew an apple tree with golden apples. And suddenly there was a defect in apples. The king called his sons to him and ordered him to catch the thief, and as a reward … Read more