The black sea
The Black Sea ( Russian Чёрное море , Tschornoje more ) is an operatic libretto by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov , the editing of which the author completed on November 18, 1936. In 1937 the Soviet composer Sergei Ivanovich Pototski worked on the opera The Black Sea based on Bulgakov's libretto. In 1988 the text was published by the Moscow publishing house Rossijskaja knischnaja palata .
In the years 1934–1939, Bulgakov created a total of four such librettos as literary advisor to the Bolshoi Theater , of which only Rachel was performed in 1947 with the music of Reinhold Glière .
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In 1920 in a decisive battle during the Russian Civil War, the Whites under Baron Wrangel were defeated by the Reds on the Isthmus of Perekop . After the fall of the Perekop Fortress , the way to the Crimea was cleared for the Bolsheviks . The whites were driven across the Black Sea towards Constantinople .
In her Simferopol apartment, the singer Olga Bolotowa gives first aid to the wounded communist commander Andrej Maritsch. Maritsch can continue his escape from the whites. Colonel Maslow, chief of counterintelligence for the whites, is on Maritsch's heels and enters the singer's apartment with his men. Because Olga Bolotova denies her humanitarian aid and the evidence speaks against her, the typhus- sick woman is taken to Sevastopol and tortured. Olga's husband, the painter Alexei Bolotov, who was out of the house during the incident, tried in vain to get white officers to release his wife, who was suspected of being a communist, and penetrated as far as Wrangel. He refers the supplicant to his adjutant Shatrov. The latter fled in civilian clothes. The desperate painter puts on Shatrow's uniform and finds his wife and Maritsch in the counterintelligence building in Sevastopol with Colonel Maslow. Alexei Bolotov shoots Maslow and escapes with the two prisoners.
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Schröder wrote in January 1996: Although Bulgakov took Alexander Malyshkin's story Der Fall von Dair as a template for his libretto, in contrast to Malyshkin he avoided glorifying heroes as much as possible.
German-language editions
Output used:
- The black sea. Opera in seven pictures. From the Russian by Renate and Thomas Reschke . Re-poems by Waldemar Dege . Pp. 155–178 in: Ralf Schröder (Ed.): Bulgakow. Peter the Great. Film scenarios. Libretti. (= Vol. 12.2 Collected Works, 13 Vols.) Verlag Volk & Welt, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-353-00953-1
Web links
- The text
- Reference in the laboratory of fantasy (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian ru: Потоцкий, Сергей Иванович
- ↑ Russian ru: Российская книжная палата , for example: House of the Russian Book
- ↑ Notes in the Bulgakov encyclopedia bulgakov.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Russian ru: Рашель (либретто Булгакова)
- ↑ Russian Падение Даира, Padenije Daira (1923)
- ↑ Schröder in the afterword of the edition used, pp. 277–278
- ↑ Russian ru: Шафер, Наум Григорьевич