Musical drama in one act
Music Director and Conductor: Anatoly Gus
Conductor: Valery Kritskov
Stage Director: Kari Heiskanen
Set Designer: Ernst Heidebrecht
Costume Designer: Maria Danilova
Choirmasters: Marina Vasilkova, Viktor Kuturaev
Light director: Sergei Martynov
Running time: 1 hour 15 minutes with no intermission
Premiered on 28 April 2002
Recommended for 12+
Taken off in 2013
In Kari Heiskanen’s production, Leoncavallo’s undying music is given a new scenic implementation. The strolling actors turn into cinema stars and the stage into a film set. It’s all unusual and, at the same time, absolutely real – the beauty of forbidden love and the anger of the cuckolded husband. The story comes to a tragic ending in the middle of shooting a soap opera. Driven to madness, Canio stabs his wife and her lover and then kills himself in front of the bewildered witnesses of the drama.
