The Tsar's Bride - Bolshoi
2018
If you're in the mood for sumptuous, emotionally intense opera cinema—and especially if you appreciate the Bolshoi's production values—this Rimsky-Korsakov classic is a stunning choice for tonight. The collision of personal passion against historical chaos makes for genuinely gripping drama, even if opera isn't usually your thing. Watch it.
Plot
The Tsar's Bride - an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based on the drama by Lev Mey. This is a play about love - passionate, hot, searing and even burning everything around him. About the Russian soul, in the depths of which will always be a place for cleanliness, poetry, sacrifice and charity. At the same time, it is a play about the terrible years in the history of Russia, when the government was in a complete chaos, and the man became a helpless toy in its hands.
Cast: Stanislav Trofimov, Olga Seliverstova, Elchin Azizov, Vyacheslav Pochapsky, Ilya Selivanov