All visitors of the XXV All-Russian Pushkin Festival of Opera and Ballet "Boldino Autumn" will be able to see performances of 18 troupes from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Cheboksary and Saransk. The festival will be held in November 17-27 in Nizhny Novgorod.

      The festival will be opened by Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera "The Queen of Spades" with the participation of the Bolshoi Theatre's soloists. It is also planned to show the public ballets "Tamar" and "Shekherezada" (Ilze Liepa and Farukh Ruzimatov will play the main roles), "The Nutcracker", "The Captain's Daughter", "The Sleeping Beauty", operas "Mazepa" and "The Mermaid".

      Nizhny Novgorod Theatre of Opera and Ballet will show two premiers at the festival - an one-act opera "Mozart and Salieri" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and a comic opera "Graf Nulin".

      Within the festival, its guests will able to visit Alexander Pushkin's estate in the Big Boldino village. There will also be a gala-concert of Vladislav Pyavko, People's Artist of the USSR, and soloists of Moscow opera theatres.

      The "Boldino Autumn" festival has been held every year since 1986.

      "Boldion Autumn" is a term related to an emblematic period in the creativity of Alexander Pushkin. In autumn 1830 the great Russian poet came to his Boldino estate (Nizhny Novgorod region) for settling some hereditary questions before his marriage with Natalya Goncharova. But he had to stay there for three and a half months because of a cholera quarantine in the region. For that time Pushkin wrote about 50 works. In particular, he finished his verse novel "Yevgeny Onegin", created cycles "The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin", "The Little Tragedies" and began his fairy-tales cycle. Besides. Pushkin wrote several critical and journalistic articles and essays and about 30 verses. 

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