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Monday, May 6, 2013

Modesto T.: "Francesca e Paolo: melodramma in un prologo, due quadri, ed un epilogo" --- la damma di picche -- IOLANTA --

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Modesto Tchaikovsky


Modesto Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Моде́стo Ильи́ч Чайко́вский; 13 May 1850–15 January [O.S. 2 January] 1916) was a Russian opera librettist.


 

 

Modesto Ilyich was born in Alapayevsk, the younger brother of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Modesto graduated from the School of Jurisprudence with a degree in law.

In 1876, Modesto became the tutor to a deaf-mute boy Nikolai ("Kolya") Hermanovich Konradi (1868–1922) and, using a special teaching method, helped him to talk, write, and read.

 

Modesto chose to dedicate his entire life to literature and music.

He wrote plays, translated sonnets by Shakespeare into Russian and wrote librettos for operas by his brother Pietro, as well as for other composers such as Edoardo Nápravník, Arseny Koreshchenko, Antonio Arensky and Sergio Rachmaninoff.

Being the nearest friend of his brother, he became his first biographer, and also the founder of the Tchaikovsky Museum in Klin.


 Plays

  • Predrassudki (Предрассудки – Prejudices)
  • Simfoniya (Симфония – Symphony)
  • Den' v Peterburge (День в Петербурге – A Day in St Petersburg)

Opera libretti


Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades (Пиковая дама - Pikovaya dama), Op. 68, 1890. Premiered: 19 December [O.S. 7 December] 1890, St Petersburg. La damma di picche


Tchaikovsky: Iolanta (Иоланта), Op. 69, 1891, based on the Danish play Kong Renés Datter (King René’s Daughter) by Henrik Hertz, translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Rafailovich Zotov. Premiered: 1892, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg.


Edoardo Nápravník: Dubrovsky (Дубровский). Premiered: 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1895, at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg.

Arseny Koreshchenko: Ledyanoy dom (Ледяной дом). Premiered: 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1900, Moscow.

Antonio Arensky: Nal' i Damayanty (Наль и Дамаянти), after the epos Mahabharata. Premiered: 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1904, Moscow.

Sergio Rachmaninoff: Francesca da Rimini (Франческа да Римини), Op. 25, 1904, after the story of the heroine Francesca da Rimini from the fifth canto of Dante's epic poem The Inferno (the first part of The Divine Comedy).
Premiered: 24 January [O.S. 11 January] 1906, Bolshoi Theatre, Mosca.

[edit] References

[edit] Bibliography

Tchaikovsky, Modest: The Life And Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, University Press of the Pacific (2004) ISBN 1-4102-1612-8

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