Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow
The Procession Of The Nobles
from 'Mlada'
Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow
The Procession Of The Nobles
from 'Mlada'
- Instrumentation Concert Band and Choir
- Composer Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow
- Editor Geert Schrijvers
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- Publisher Molenaar Edition
- Order no. MOL013097060SC
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Description:
The Procession of the Nobles is the best-known piece that survived an ambitious project which was never completed due to lack of money. No less than five composers, several orchestras, choirs and ballet schools were to participate in what should become an enormous show-piece of comprehensive theatre. The project failed because of lack of sponsors and internal conflicts, but it provided this magnificent composition. Mlada tells the story of Princess Voislava who kills her friend Princess Mlada because she is in love with Mlada's fiancé Prince Jaromir. Mlada's spirit - personified by a female dancer - succeeds in convincing Jaromir in a dream of Voislava's cruel act. Jaromir revenges himself. Morena, goddess of the underworld, invoked by Voislava to chase Mlada's spirit, avenges the dying princess. An infernal storm brings death and destruction. In the final chorus of the opera the spirits of the deceased pay a tribute to the souls of the lovers Jaromir and Mlada united in death.