Pan Voyevoda

"Pan Voyevoda" ( _ru. Пан воевода, transliteration "Pan vojevoda"; Polish "Pan wojewoda" -- literally "The Gentleman Provincial Governor"), is an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It is based on a libretto by Il’ya Tyumenev. The work was completed in 1903, was first performed in October 1904, and has proved to be one of Rimsky-Korsakov's least-successful works.

Performance history

The St Petersburg Premiere took place on 16 October (O.S. 3 October) 1904 at the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in St. Petersburg. The conductor was Vyacheslav Suk.

In the following year, the opera was given its Moscow premiere on
27 September 1905 at the Bolshoy Theatre conducted by Sergey Rakhmaninov.

Another notable performance took place on 12 May 1905 in Warsaw.

Roles

Publication history

*1904, piano-vocal score, V. Bessel and Co., St. Petersburg
*1904, full score, V. Bessel and Co., St. Petersburg
*1955, piano-vocal score, Muzgiz, Moscow
*1955, full score, Muzgiz, Moscow

ynopsis

Maria Oskolsky is in love with Boleslav Chaplinsky, but is coveted by Pan Voyevoda, who disregards her lover's claim. Yadviga, who has designs upon the Voyevoda, obtains from a sorcerer, Dorosha, a poison which during a banquet she pours into Maria's glass; but the Voyevoda, drinking from it in error, expires, and Chaplinsky, who is lying under a sentence of death, is released. [ [http://opera.stanford.edu/main.html Source: "The Opera Glass", Stanford University, from M. Montagu Nathan, "Rimsky-Korsakof", Duffield & Co., New York, 1917] ]

Concert excerpts

Suite from the opera "Pan Voyevoda", Op. 59 (1903)
Сюита из оперы "Пан воевода", соч. 59

#Introduction (Вступление)
#Krakowiak (Краковяк)
#Nocturne "Moonlight" (Ноктюрн "Лунный свет")
#Mazurka (Мазурка)
#Polonaise (Полонез)

Discography

Audio Recordings ("Mainly studio recordings")

Source: [http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk]

*1951, Samuil Samosud (conductor), All Union Radio Orchestra and Chorus, Aleksey Korolyov (Pan Voyevoda), K Rachevskaya (Maria Oskolska), Anatoly Orfenov (Boleslav Caplinski), Lyudmila Legostayeva (Olesnicki), Georgi Troitsky (Dorosz), Konstantin Polyayev (Dzjuba), Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya (Jadwiga Zapolska), Guro Tita (Poslavski)

References

Sources

*cite web |url=http://opera.stanford.edu/RimskyKorsakov/PanVoyevoda/synopsis.html|title=Synopsis|accessdate=2007-06-09|work= [http://opera.stanford.edu/ Opera Glass] at Stanford University
*cite web |url=http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/panvoevo.htm|title=Libretto|accessdate=2008-02-05|work= [http://opera.stanford.edu/ Opera Glass] at Stanford University|language=English (English prose translation by Stephen Muir
*cite web |first=Richard|last=Taruskin|coauthors=L. Macy (editor)|year=2007|url=http://www.grovemusic.com|title=Pan Voyevoda|accessdate=2007-06-09|work= [http://www.grovemusic.com New Grove Dictionary of Opera / Grove Music Online] |language=English