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Rodion Shchedrin's opera mixes singing, choreography and storytelling to lend a potent sacred and mystic overlay to Nikolai Leskov's folk tale.

Shchedrin’s opera The Enchanted Wanderer is the complete opposite of shocking and director Alexei Stepanyuk’s staging alongside Valery Gergiev’s command over the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra revealed something of a translucid daydream.

Valery Gergiev ehrt Rodion Shchedrin zu dessen 85. Geburtstag in München mit einer kontemplativ-konzertanten Aufführung von The Enchanted Wanderer.