July 6, 2024
Pushkiniana
Alexander Pushkin
two Little Tragedies
The performance The Bronze Guest. The Genius of Mozart is a stage interpretation of two famous Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin: The Stone Guest and Mozart and Salieri.
In the first part, the audience meets Don Juan — a man of daring passion, free will, and dangerous charm. Having returned from exile without permission, he approaches Donna Anna, the widow of the Commander he killed. But where the game of seduction begins, the tragic inevitability of retribution gradually comes into view.
The second part takes us into the world of music, talent, and the tormenting question of justice. Salieri, who has devoted his whole life to art, cannot accept that Mozart's genius was given to him effortlessly, as a gift from above. His admiration turns into envy, envy into judgment, and a conversation about music becomes a tragedy of the human soul.
The two stories are united by Pushkin's reflection on the nature of genius, passion, pride, and a person's responsibility before talent, love, and eternity. In its chamber form, the performance preserves the high poetry of Pushkin's word and brings it to a contemporary audience — without external pomp, but with inner tension, where every decision of the hero leads to an inevitable finale.
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