Anatoli Kotscherga

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride (2015)

The argument is based on an historical case. In the suburbs of Moscow, reigned around 1571 Tsar Ivan IV, 'the Terrible'. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife for the third time. He chooses the young Marfa; she loves another man but bends to the will of th ...

Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (2012)

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow. As Marfa, the spurned lover of Ivan Khovansky's son Andrei, Doris Soffel unfolds such a rich palette of so ...

Mozart: Don Giovanni (2010)

More than two centuries after its creation, the emotional pull of this supreme opera remains absolutely intact. Dmitri Tcherniakov duly revisits the myth and makes the seducer of Seville a 'man without qualities', a cipher whose words have a hypnotic power ...

Eugene Onegin (2008)

Live performance by the Bolshoi Theatre at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, 2008. ...

Mussorgsky: Khovanschina (2007)

One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological states, and even physical movements, into music. Kent Nagano rises magnificently to the challenges presented by this score. And Dmitri Tcherniakov's fascinati ...

Boris Godunov (2004)

The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous "romantic tragedy" by the celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as its starting point. Boris Godunov is Mussorgsky's masterpiece and his only complete opera. It's a vast sprawling tapestry o ...

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2002)

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. ...

War and Peace (2000)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

Boris Godunov (1998)

Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg (1996)

Sergei Prokofiev: Highlights from "Romeo & Juliet" Sergei Rachmaninov: Cavatine of Aleko from "Aleko" Ludwig van Beethoven: Romances for Violine and Orchestra No. 1 in G major, and No. 2 in F major, Symphony No. 7 in A major Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutc ...

Khovanshchina (1989)

The last and arguably finest opera of Modest Mussorgsky is captured in one of its most powerful interpretations in this 1989 recording from the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Claudio Abbado. A moody opera that is thematically broad at times and intimatel ...