When I Am Laid In Earth Redux - East Village Opera Company

O. Balzac - “Lost Illusions” (1935, Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater); Dante - “Francesca da Rimini” (1947, Moscow Musical Theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko). In the ballet work of A. was reflected the heroism of the Civil War - “Partisan Days” (1937, Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater) and will be released. the struggle of peoples against fascism - "Militsa" (1947, ibid. ). In a number of ballets, A. strove to recreate the "intonational atmosphere" of the era. In the ballet Flames of Paris (1932, ibid. ), A. used melodies from the era of the French Revolution and the works of composers of that time and “worked on this task not only as a playwright, composer, but also as a musicologist, historian and theorist,and as a writer, not shying away from the methods of the modern historical novel. ” A similar method was used by A. when creating the opera “The Treasurer” on the plot of M. Yu. Lermontov (1937, Leningrad Pakhomov Sailors Club) and others. The best of A. 's ballets - “The Flames of Paris” and “The Bakhchisarai Fountain” - took strong place in the repertoire of owls. muses theaters.