Full-blown stage productions was certainly not the goal the Centre”s artistic director, Galina Vishnevskaya originally set herself. What she really was going for, however, was a sort of a first-semester examination for students who Vishnevskaya and other teachers think have come a pretty long way since they started off five months ago. Lyudmila was sung by Oksana Lesnichaya (01.24) and Anna Devyatkina (01.25), Ruslan – by Vladimir Baikov (01.24) and Roman Astakhov (01.25), Ratmira – by Oksana Korniyevskaya (01.24) and Tatyana Atavina (01.25), Farlaf – by Roman Derzayev, the Centre”s youngest student, Svetozar – by Dmitry Sarnikov, Gorislava – by Irina Oknina and Bayan – by Pavel Paremuzov.
The premiere was attended, among others, by Irina Shostakovich, Vladimir Minin, Makvala Kasrashvili, Vyacheslav Zaitsev and a raft of high-profile celebrities and diplomats.
Ruslan and Lyudmila is seen by Galina Vishnevskaya as a timeless masterpiece by the great Mikhail Glinka, undeservedly ignored by opera directors and singers who somehow fail to appreciate the opera”s many extended arias all allowing the singer”s vocal and technical abilities to shine through.
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