Ablesimov biography

Portrait A. Unknown artist. He came from a poor noble family and received a home education. From the age of 16 he began military service, but at the age of 24 he quit and took a position in the office, where the unexpected occurred. The famous poet, playwright and literary critic, “Father of the Russian Theater” - Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov served in the same office.

Ablesimov undertook to rewrite his poems ... He met poetry and felt a passion for literary creativity. He wrote elegia, comic and satirical poems, fables, articles, but his most famous compound was the comic opera “Melnik - Sorcerer, deceiver and matchmaker”. The text written by the author back in the city of the comic opera - the new genre, originated around the EG. The text in the comic opera did not sing, but was pronounced, and the inserted arias, duets, refitations, choirs are sung.

Songs were often folklore. The comic opera is characterized by an element of pastorality: a genre in literature, painting, music and the theater, poetizing peaceful and simple rural life. The heroes of the opera Ablezimov - several popular peasants - are depicted comically, with good irony. The music is based on the melodies of Russian folk songs, they are mostly indicated in the text of the play.

It is curious that the songs used by Ablesimov and composer Mikhail Matveevich Sokolovsky gained popularity thanks to the opera. The processing of these melodies, made by Sokolovsky, unfortunately, has not been preserved. The authorship of the Melnik music, known to us in the later instrumentation, is unjustifiably attributed to Evgeny Ipatievich Fomin.

The miller, who is traditionally considered a sorcerer in the village, helps to solve all problems for general pleasure. In the course of action, not only a forest, a mill, a peasant house appear on the stage, but also a moon, and even a horse! This gave the reason for the prisoner to turn to the playwright with such playful stanzas: the cover of notes to the comic opera.

Moscow, from the Magadan Magadan funds "Museum Complex". We all recognized your price how you stole the moon on stage and brought a horse to the theater. Lyuminarsky in the role of Melnik in the play “Melnik-colle, deceiver and matchmaker” Opera S. Zimina Moscow. The artist of Elsky. From the funds of the GCTM named after The comic opera is a very important and “profitable” genre for the development of acting.

She, in the traditions of the same comedy del arte, gives the actors significant freedom of interpretation, involves singing, dancing, improvisation. A similar genre in the Russian theater was vaudeville. And it was this pastoral comic opera that became the first test performance shown in the unfinished by the entire Hermitage theater on November 16.

In a large extent, the popularity of this work was facilitated by talented performers of the role of Melnik: A. Krutitsky, M. Shchepkin, A. In the year, the opera in a picturesque popular design is put in the private opera of S. Zimin in Moscow. Sketches of the costumes for the play “Melnik-Cold, a deceiver and a matchmaker” S. Opera S. Artist I. Sketches of the scenery for the play “Melnik-colle, deceiver and matchmaker” Opera S.

In the 19th century, a work that gained popularity with the public was often put not only in the capital, but also on the provincial stage, performed as professional actors and amateurs. In the year, the opera was staged at the State Institute of Musical Education in Petrograd. But even by the end of the 20th century, she did not leave the stage: in the year the performance of the Moscow theater on Malaya Bronnaya in the production of S.

appears the program “The second historical performance”. Artist B. Poster of folk festivities in the village of Aleksandrovsky. Poster of the tour Partnership of Moscow Dramatic Artists under the direction of N. Holmin on the stage of the Winter Theater in Morshansk. From the funds of the GCTM. The poster of the Opera Theater S. Program for setting the performance in the Olekhovo estate of the Novgorod province with the participation of O.

from the funds of the Novgorod United Museum-Reserve. The poster of the State Institute of Musical Education. The program of the performance of the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Ablesimov wrote several more dramatic works, but in the history of the Russian theater, this is precisely precisely this composition of the author. Shakhovskaya explained the popularity of the opera with her connection with Russian life: “Ablesimov grabbed from the people“ a miller-a deceiver, a sorcerer and a matchmaker ”, let him directly onto the stage, forced him to sing intricate poems to the voice of Russian songs and presented the audience in the fresh charms of his Russian, and therefore“ Melnik ”and“ short-sighted ”and“ short-lived ”could never look closely.” In favor of those who love theatrical performances: Dictionary.

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