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The Snow Maiden (other)
'' The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale'' is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Snow Maiden may also refer to: * ''The Snow Maiden'', an 1873 play by Aleksander Ostrovsky, which inspired the opera **"The Snow Maiden", incidental music composed in 1873 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for the first production of the play * ''The Snow Maiden'' (1952 film), an animated film based on the opera * ''The Snow Maiden'' (1968 film), a 1968 live-action film based on the play, directed by Pavel Kadochnikov * ''The Snow Maiden'' (2006 film), animated film, winner of Best Animation at the 12th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film See also * Snow Maiden (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Spring Fairy Tale
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow Maiden (play)
''The Snow Maiden'' (russian: Снегурочка, ''Snegurochka'') is a play in verse by Alexander Ostrovsky written in 1873 and first published in the September 1873 issue of ''Vestnik Evropy''. It was adapted into an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which premièred in 1882. Background The idea of the play based on a fairytale about Snegurochka came to Ostrovsky in his Shchelykovo estate, the place he admired and almost worshipped, imagining it as a piece of wonderland here on Earth, saturated with the spirit of Old Rus with its heroic warriors and gentle, benevolent tsars. The play tells the story of an idyllic utopian kingdom ruled by the Berendei, a poet and an artist who believes in love, peace and good will and promotes this belief of his. The play's plot was based on the Russian folk fairytale Ostrovsky read in the Vol. 2 of Alexander Afanasyev's book ''The Slavs' Views Upon Nature'' (1867). History In 1873, the Malyi Theatre was closed for renovati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow Maiden (1952 Film)
''The Snow Maiden'' (russian: Снегу́рочка; tr.:''Snegurochka'') is a 1952 Soviet/Russian traditionally animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the Slavic-pagan play of the same name by Aleksandr Ostrovsky (itself largely based on traditional folk tales). Music from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera ''The Snow Maiden'' is used, arranged for the film by L. Shvarts. The animated film was shown at movie theaters. The film is listed as being in the public domain on the website of the Russian Federal Agency of Culture and CinematographyThe film also lapsed into the public domain in the United States when its US copyright expired, but the copyright was restored under the GATT treaty Plot Snegurochka (the Snow Maiden), the daughter of Spring the Beauty (Весна-Красна) and Ded Moroz, yearns for the companionship of mortal humans. She grows to like the Slavic god-shepherd named ''Lel'', but her heart is unable to kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow Maiden (1968 Film)
''The Snow Maiden'' (russian: Снегурочка, Snegurochka) is a 1968 Soviet fantasy film directed by Pavel Kadochnikov. Plot The Snow Maiden is the daughter of Ded Moroz and the Beauty of Spring. Her icy heart has never known simple human joys, never known love before meeting Lel. His spiritual warmth gave the girl the wealth of the surrounding world, melted the heart of the cold beauty. Cast * Yevgenia Filonova as Snegurochka * Evgeny Zharikov as Lel * Irina Gubanova as Kupava * Boris Khimichev as Misghir * Pavel Kadochnikov as Tsar Berendey * Natalya Klimova as Vesna * Valeri Malyshev as Brusilo * Sergey Filippov as Bermyata * Boris Shcherbakov Boris Vasilevich Shcherbakov (russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Щербако́в; born 11 December 1949) is Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of Russian Federation (1994). Winner of USSR State Prize (1985). ... as young man * Andrey Apsolon as Bakula * References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kadochnikov
Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov (russian: Павел Петрович Кадочников; – 2 May 1988) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1979) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1985). Biography Pavel Kadochnikov was born in Petrograd in 1915. In 1927, he entered a children's artistic studio, dreaming to become a professional artist, but, because of the severe illness of his father, Pavel, as the elder in the family, was forced to become the apprentice to a metal craftsman. However, he continued to study in the studio. In 1929, he entered the actor's department of theatrical school of TYuZ. In 1935, he graduated from Leningrad Theatrical Institute and until 1944 was an actor in Leningrad's New TYuZ. He began to act in the cinema in 1935. His first role was Mikhas in the film ''Maturity''. Kadochnikov was not pleased the way he looked on the screen in his early roles, and he decided to never play in the cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow Maiden (2006 Film)
''The Snow Maiden'' (subtitle: A Spring Fairy Tale) ( rus, Снегурочка–весенняя сказка, Snegúrochka–vesénnyaya skázka, italic=yes ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky (which had premiered in 1873 with incidental music by Tchaikovsky). The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1882 ( OS; 10 February NS) conducted by Eduard Nápravník. By 1898 it was revised in the edition known today. It remained the composer's own favorite work. Analysis The story deals with the opposition of eternal forces of nature and involves the interactions of mythological characters (Frost, Spring, Wood-Sprite), real people (Kupava, Mizgir'), and those in-between, i.e., half-mythical, half-real (Snow Maiden, Lel’, Berendey). The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
