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Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective prince’s military campaign against the invading Polovtsians returned in 2014 with a first-rate cast and an astonishing production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Well worth the wait, the sets feature visually striking projections interlaced with lush flowering fields, and the first act delivers one of opera’s most exciting dance medleys, a portion of which went mainstream in the 1950s when Tony Bennett recorded “Stranger in Paradise.”
Original Music Composer
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective prince’s military campaign against the invading Polovtsians returned in 2014 with a first-rate cast and an astonishing production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Well worth the wait, the sets feature visually striking projections interlaced with lush flowering fields, and the first act delivers one of opera’s most exciting dance medleys, a portion of which went mainstream in the 1950s when Tony Bennett recorded “Stranger in Paradise.”
Music
The story follows one fateful day as a beggar-poet and his daughter cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical curse, opulent sets and exotic adventure. Adapted from the Broadway musical.
Music
‘아라비안나이트’의 시대를 배경으로 한 고대의 바그다드. 이른바 ‘거지들의 왕’인 하피즈는 부유한 사람들을 상대로 마술쇼를 펼쳐 그들의 돈을 우려내는가 하면, 밤마다 그 도시의 화려한 술집에서 하시르의 왕자 행세를 한다. 그에게는 마르시나라는 아름다운 딸이 있는데 그녀는 그의 자랑거리이자 삶의 낙이다. 그는 딸을 진짜 왕자에게 시집보내기로 결심하고 집 주위에 높은 담을 쌓아 혼자서는 밖으로 나갈 수 없게 만든다. 어느 날 밤, 여느 때처럼 왕자 복장을 한 하피즈는 왕궁 정원사 아들로 가장하고 있는 아라비아 국왕을 맞닥뜨린다. 국왕의 정체를 모르는 하피즈는 그에게 모욕을 주는데...
