When They Sang in Russian in Milan

Tour of the Bolshoi Theater in Milan: fragments of the opera "Boris Godunov" on the stage of the Milan theater "La Scala" (synchronously). Among the artists involved in the opera: Ivan Petrov, Andrei Sokolov. Soviet artists walk around Milan, talk with Milanese, sightseeing. Types of Milan: streets, squares. Preparing the theater stage for the performance "The Queen of Spades". Scenes from the opera The Queen of Spades (synchronously). Among the artists involved in the play: I. Arkhipova, G. Vishnevskaya, T. Milashkina, M. Kiselev, Z. Andzhaparidze, P. Lisitsian. Meeting of the artists of the Bolshoi Theater in the city trade union center. Conductor G. Rozhdestvensky answers questions. Meeting at the club of the humanities, visiting the printing house of the newspaper "Unita", the club of the steel plant. Present A. Ognivtsev, E. Obraztsova, A. Vedernikov. Fragments of the opera "War and Peace" (synchronously) on the stage of the Teatro alla Scala, fragments of the opera "Sadko" (synchronously) with the participation of A.P. Ognivtseva, fragments of the opera "Prince Igor" with the participation of V.T. Nechipailo (synchronously). A visit by the theater artists to the house of G. Verdi, the A. Toscanini museum-apartment, meeting with the daughters and granddaughters of F. I. Shalyapin. A visit by the artists of the Venice Theater. Views of Venice: canals, palaces.

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1965