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Canterville Ghost, opera (Кентервильское привидение)

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Ghost - Stanislas Souleimanov

Virginia - Tatiana Monogarova

Orchestra: Forum Theater Orchestra Moscow

Александр Аронович Кнайфель - Кентервильское привидение - 1965, опера в трех действиях, романтические сцены для трех солистов (низкий бас, нежное сопрано, большой орган) и камерного оркестра.

В 1975 г. опера была исполнена силами консерваторцев. В 1990 г. сюита, написанная на основе нескольких музыкальных эпизодов оперы, была показана на сцене московского театра "Форум".

Conductor - Mikhail Yurovski

Recorded in Moscow at the Mosfilm Studios, September 1990.

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The Canterville Ghost (opera)

The Canterville Ghost (also "The Ghost of Canterville", Russian: "Кантервильское привидение" - Kantervil'skoye privedenie, however usually spelt as "Кентервильское привидение" - Kentervil'skoye privedenie; French: Le fantome de Canterville, German: Das Gespenst von Canterville), an opera by the Russian composer Alexander Knayfel' (Russian: Кнайфель; Alexandre Knaifel, Knayfel) in three acts for 18 singers and chamber orchestra.

Composed in 1965-1966 to the libretto by Tatiana Kramarova after The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde. Text Russian (translated into English by V. Paperno). Dedicated to Rein Laul.

Also: "Romantic Scenes from the Opera" - in seven scenes with prologue for basso profondo and light soprano with chamber orchestra (shorter version).

Shorter version:

Solo Voices: bass, soprano

Orchestra: flute, oboe, 2 clarinets (piccolo and bass), contrabassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, timpani, 4 percussion (tubular bells, glockenspiel, xylophone, flexatone), piano/celesta, organ (may be on tape), 5 strings (1.1.1.1.1).

The score is printed by Sovetsky Kompozitor, Leningrad 1977

Full version:

Singers: 6 sopranos, 2 boy sopranos, 4 mezzo-sopranos, alto, 2 tenors, 2 baritones, bass

Orchestra: Orchestra: flute, oboe, 2 clarinets (piccolo and bass), contrabassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (5 players, instruments include tubular bells, glockenspiel, xylophone and flexatone), piano/celesta, organ (may be on tape), 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass.

Premiere

a) February 26, 1974 (with the subsequent performances on November 30, and December 15, 1974) in Leningrad, the House of Composers. Chamber Orchestra of Conservatoire, conductor L.Gelgrud.

b) March 3 and 4 1980 in London, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky