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		Tchaikovsky felt it the same way, when in depressive spells he thought that there is no stopping the time, the time is implacable.
		In Tchaikovsky’s "Mazepa" there is a boat, rocking on the Dnieper waves in which Maria and Аndrey used to float in their childhood, and the image of which appears in the lullaby, Maria sings to her dying friend.
		Tchaikovsky in his opera emphasised the theme of Maria’s love, her disastrous passion for Mazepa dominates in it, and this mysterious love for an elderly man becomes the climax to the tragedy, creating a terrible tangle where ambition, revenge, feeling and murder are mixed up.
	www.bolshoi.org /Pressa/mazeppa-eng.htm (1219 words)

	TEMPLE OF PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, in the western Ural area of the country.
		Although Tchaikovsky's other sources of income were by then adequate to sustain him, he was wounded by the sudden defection of his patron without apparent cause, and he never forgave her.
		Tchaikovsky also extended the range of the symphonic poem, and his works in this genre, including Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, are notable for their richly melodic evocation of the moods of the literary works on which they are based.
	sangha.net /messengers/tchaikovsky.htm (698 words)

	Mazeppa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tchaikovsky got wind of the situation and asked his friend if he might be assigned the job instead.
		Tchaikovsky decided finally to end opera not where Burenin had ended it (with mad Maria´s Ophelia-like suicide by drowning and a conventional horror chorus), but with her haunting lullaby to the dying Andrey, whom she has mistaken for a sleeping child.
		Tchaikovsky also decided, later on, to insert an arioso for Mazeppa in the middle act, so that the hetman can step briefly out of diabolical character and sing sincerely (his melody going so far as to echo that of Prince Gremin, Tatyana´s doting husband in Eugen Onegin) about his own love for Maria.
	www.tchaikovsky.host.sk /work/Mazeppa-con.htm (554 words)

	Mazeppa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tchaikovsky's opera "Mazeppa" is based on Pushkin's poem "Poltava," which depicts the historical Ukrainian separatist, Mazeppa, in both his political and romantic exploits.
		Mazeppa admires the quiet of the Ukrainian night, and compares its peacefulness with the turmoil in his soul.
		Mazeppa tries to speak with her, but the poor girl doesn't recognize her beloved.
	www.tchaikovsky.host.sk /work/Mazeppa.htm (785 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: In Rides Mazeppa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tchaikovsky quickly snapped up a scenario that had been prepared by the poet Victor Burenin at the command of the Tsar for Karl Davydov, chief of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, who turned it down.
		Tchaikovsky was a country boy who was homesick and depressed in big cities.
		Retaining that shading, the love-bedeviled composer nonetheless emphasized the surprisingly sincere passion between Mazeppa, unavoidably a baritone, and, the decades-younger Maria, daughter of the rich landholder Kochubey.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/4011.html (1747 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2005-06 Broadcasts
		Though Mazeppa, at this point of the action, is a man in his sixties, Maria truly loves him and when her father refuses to marry her to Mazeppa, she willingly allows herself to be abducted.
		It is obvious that Tchaikovsky’s concern was with human emotions, not the national issues motivating the participants in the Great Northern War, not even the cause of Ukrainian independence championed by Mazeppa, an issue that was decisively settled by the devastating defeat of Charles XII at Poltava.
		Mazeppa (1640-1709) inspired poetry from Lord Byron and Victor Hugo, a painting by Eugene Delacroix, and a virtuoso etude by Franz Liszt not to mention less touted operas, choral works, and piano compositions by composers throughout Europe from Poland to Ireland.
	www.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaTeaching.cgi?id=116&language=1&material_id=500000000000442 (3215 words)

	Mazeppa - Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although the Russians portray Ivan Mazeppa as a villain, the Ukrainian leader, who built churches and established libraries and educational institutions, was venerated by his countrymen as a patriot, statesman, and diplomat.
		She declines because her parents are entertaining Mazeppa who she reveals in soliloquy is the old man who has bewitched her and with whom she is hopelessly in love.
		Mazeppa composes himself and declares first that a lion should not fight with a lamb and that further he did not come like a vulture to plunder Kochubey’s treasure.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera2/Mazeppa.htm (1115 words)

	Gergiev conducts Tchaikovsky's 'Mazeppa' - Boston.com
		Olga Guryakova, holding a bust of her father's head, performs the role of Maria during the final dress rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's "Mazeppa," Friday, March 3, 2006 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
		Mazeppa insists that Maria declare who is dearest to her.
		During a momentous musical interlude, complete with allusions to Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," Peter defeats the Swedish forces at the Battle of Poltava, laying waste to Kochubey's estate and Mazeppa's ambitions.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/03/08/gergiev_conducts_tchaikovskys_mazeppa (708 words)

	TCHAIKOVSKY Mazeppa 074 194-9 [PSh]: Classical CD Reviews- March 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Act II Scene 2 where Mazeppa tricks Mariya into consenting to the death of her father is masterfully done, as is the following scene where Mariya’s mother is able to make plain to her daughter the horror of what is to come, and Mariya’s acceptance of her guilt begins to unravel her sanity.
		Mazeppa and Andre fight, Andre is shot, Mariya in white robes enters caressing a bouquet of flowers at her breast and singing to it as to a child.
		Mazeppa tries to reach out to her, but in her madness she does not recognize him, and he flees without her.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Mar04/Mazeppa.htm (1380 words)

	Mazeppa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Ukrainian hetman Mazeppa is entertained in the house of the Cossack judge Kochubey and although he is not young demands the hand of the judge's daughter Mariya in marriage.
		Mazeppa, in collusion with Sweden, attempts revolt but is defeated at the battle of Poltava.
		Two orchestral excerpts from Mazeppa that may be heard in the concert-hall are the Cossack Dance that entertains Mazeppa at the house of Kochubey in the first act and the music that accompanies the tableau representing the battle of Poltava.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Mazeppa.htm (239 words)

	Arts Gallery
		Designer Georgy Aleksi-Mekhshivili provided "Mazeppa" with a unit set, backed with a large wall covered by blown-up fragments of a letter written in Polish by the real Mazeppa himself, and otherwise left the stage sparsely decorated, relying on lighting and projections to create the appropriate atmosphere.
		Mazeppa, an aging Cossack hetman (or chieftain) and ruler of Ukraine, woos and wins the hand of Maria, the daughter of Kochubey, a wealthy landowner.
		Mazeppa soon continues his flight, however, leaving Maria to mourn over the dying Andrei, whom, in her madness, she thinks is her child.
	www.artukraine.com /music/mazepa3.htm (780 words)

	MUSICAL TALES
		Tchaikovsky was very partial towards the young Tatiana Larina and even wanted to give her name to his new opera.
		Mazeppa’s much-acclaimed premiere at the Bolshoi in 1884 perfectly married the production’s grand style with the luscious magnificence of Tchaikovsky’s music...
		In Tchaikovsky’s opera, Gherman is madly in love with Lisa who appears to be the old woman’s granddaughter and the heiress to her immense fortune.
	www.vor.ru /English/MTales/tales_078.html (702 words)

	•• Biography of Peter Illich Tchaikovsky - PianoParadise •• (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Peter Illich Tchaikovsky, or peter ilich tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский) was born in Votkisk, which is the western ural part of Russia.
		Tchaikovsky was very upset with her when she just so suddenly cut off his salary, although by that time, he had plenty of assets for his income.
		Peter Tchaikovsky died in Saint Petersburg, Russia and was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	www.pianoparadise.com /Tchaikovsky.html (605 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Hero or Traitor? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Likewise, five years later, the historical Mazeppa engineered the death of her father, Vasily Kochubey, after the latter betrayed him to Peter (by which time the historical Maria was probably married to someone else).
		Before Mazeppa gives way to anger, he states his case with poise and composure in a fine arioso with words based on Pushkin's: young love is volatile, but an old man's heart resists momentary passions.
		Tchaikovsky is known for commencing the composition of an opera by first turning to the scene that most intrigued him.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/3788.html (1555 words)

	Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mazeppa has a lot going for it: the Girl's Chorus and the energetic Gopka in the first act, the Prison Scene and Finale in the second act and the Battle of Poltava at the start of the third.
		In addition, there is a lovely duet in the first act between Maria and Andrey, a nice monologue for Mazeppa in the second act, and a duet with Maria and in the third act, the death scene of Andrey.
		Mazeppa is an opera often overlooked in the light of Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame- but some of Tchaikovsky's best music lies within Mazeppa's score.
	www.abmbirds.com /reviews/B0000069CX (142 words)

	Mazeppa - Metropolitan Opera - Opera Review - New York Times
		Though Tchaikovsky's "Mazeppa" is a staple of the Kirov Opera at the Maryinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, it has made it only to the periphery of opera companies outside Russia.
		Still, with the psychological insight of a great musical dramatist, Tchaikovsky turns Mazeppa into a flawed tragic figure, who outrages his wealthy Cossack ally Kochubey by wooing his winsome daughter Maria, even though Mazeppa is old enough to be her grandfather.
		But the crucial battles in "Mazeppa" are internal, and most of the score is given to ruminative and deeply melancholic exchanges between the main characters.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/08/arts/music/08maze.html?ex=1299474000&en=e3e3ae956a8208e5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1147 words)

	Amazon.com: Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa / Leiferkus · Gorchakova · Kotscherga · Dyadkova · Larin · Pederson · Margison ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As a composer of twelve operas, Piotr Illyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was behind Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in the matter of importance and influence in the development of Russian operas.
		Mazeppa, the three act opera of 1884 strikes me as a bold, dark yet honest theatrical work: the opera which is part history and part romance (between Andrey and Maria).
		Based on Alexander Pushkin's epic poem "Poltava", Tchaikovsky's "Mazeppa" is nationalistic as well as personal and Act II is the most gripping of the three.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001GM8?v=glance (1781 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Tchaikovsky is one of those composers whose style is so personal that even its chips and discards sound characteristic, if not always as impressive as his fully realized masterpieces--and in any case many of the items in this collection show him at his best.
		The Gopak from Mazeppa is relatively well-known, but the similar character numbers from The Maid of Orleans, Cherevichki (The Slippers), The Enchantress, and The Oprichnik are all marvelous and well worth hearing.
		The sonics capture Tchaikovsky's vivid scoring with often overwhelming impact: bass drum and cymbals leap from the speakers, while the brass bellow powerfully, hovering on the edge of that splendidly muscular vulgarity that seems to have disappeared from today's Russian orchestras.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=9823 (320 words)

	Tchaikovsky
		n 1876 Tchaikovsky became acquainted with Madam Nadejda von Meck, a wealthy widow, whose enthusiasm for the composer's music led her to give him an annual allowance of 600 pounds.
		Meanwhile, in 1877, Tchaikovsky, hoping to still the conflicts he felt about his homosexuality, had married Antonina Milyukova, a music student at the Moscow Conservatory who had written to the composer declaring her love for him.
		From 1887 to 1891 Tchaikovsky made several highly successful concert tours, conducting his own works before large, enthusiastic audiences in the major cities of Europe and the U.S. He composed one of his finest operas, The Queen of Spades, in 1890.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Musician/Tchaikovsky.html (1282 words)

	DVD Lulu / Mazeppa / Otello / Rusalka
		Nikolai Putilin (Mazeppa); Sergei Aleksashkin (Kochubey); Larissa Diadkova (Lyubov); Irina Loskutova (Maria); Viktor Lutsiuk (Andrey); Kirov Opera Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra/Valery Gergeyev, cond.
		Mazeppa tries unsuccessfully to reunite with Maria, then leaves to escape the approaching Tsar's army.
		Maria's childhood friend, Andrey, who has always been in love with her, wounded by Mazeppa, dies at the end of the opera as Maria sings a "mad scene" as she sees the lifeless bodies of her father and Andrey.
	www.classicalcdreview.com /DVDVIDEO21.html (896 words)

	Sieglinde's Diaries: Mazeppa comes to the Met
		Mazeppa doesn't have the lyrical polish associated with Tchaikovsky's more renowned operas Eugene Onegin and Queen of Spades.
		The title role of Mazeppa is sung powerfully by Nikolai Putilin, easily his best work at the Met to date.
		Moreover, the choreography and stage direction are amateurish and mostly meaningless, and detracted from the seriousness and majesty of Tchaikovsky's brooding masterpiece, as well as from the cast's magnificent vocal performance.
	balconybox.blogspot.com /2006/03/mazeppa-comes-to-met.html (733 words)

	MUSIC SOARS AS PRODUCTION CRASHES By CLIVE BARNES - New York Post Online Edition: Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Here, on a bizarrely tilted stage, was an expressionist/symbolist mishmash, untrue to Tchaikovsky and unfair to the singers, some of whom were forced to sing prostrate or perched in a chair.
		Mazeppa is a 70-year-old Ukrainian chieftain who successfully woos Maria, the young daughter of rich landowner Kochubey, and less successfully betrays Russia to the Swedes, executes his father-in-law and shoots his wife's former suitor before riding off, leaving his young wife understandably crazy.
		Go for Tchaikovsky and the production's alternate universe of Gergiev and the performances - or listen for the Met's broadcast of the March 18 matinee.
	www.nypost.com /entertainment/62824.htm (408 words)

	Performance: Kirov Opera - Mazeppa Dec 18 - 20, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mazeppa One of the great pillars of the Mariinsky repertoire, Tchaikovsky's soaring Mazeppa depicts the legendary 17th-century Ukrainian separatist in both his political and romantic exploits.
		Denied the judge's blessing to marry, Mazeppa and Maria decide to elope, an action that compels Kochubey to reveal Mazeppa's secret revolutionary plans—a plot to turn the Ukraine into an independent state—to Tsar Peter the Great.
		The Life & Music of Tchaikovsky : Follow a timeline through Tchaikovsky's life, read his bio, and find out about other upcoming events in which he will be featured.
	www.kennedy-center.org /nso/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=MEKOG (371 words)

	Music CD: Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa Tracks: Mazeppa, Act I: Introduction, Mazeppa: Act One: No. 1 Girls' Chorus And Scene: I ...
		Mazeppa is urged to flee and he leaves her behind.
		The finale of Mazeppa is absolutely one of the most beautiful and touching in all of opera.
		Other favs of mine are Mazeppa's love aira to Maria, and of course all the chorus' and the prision and excecution scenes.
	www.musicolympus.com /cd-store/B0000069CX/Tchaikovsky_Mazeppa_-_music-CD.html (1088 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Culture
		Composed by Tchaikovsky between ``Eugene Onegin'' and ``The Queen of Spades,'' and like them inspired by Pushkin (his epic poem ``Poltava''), the opera takes its name from the 17th-century Ukrainian hetman Mazeppa, who rebelled against Peter the Great.
		The macabre plot centers on the love affair between the septuagenarian Mazeppa and his teenage goddaughter Maria, whose parents are understandably unenthusiastic when she chooses her elderly lover over her family and Andrei, a younger admirer.
		Whether dressed in a slinky gold mini-dress or a long white nightie, she was persuasive as a vulnerable lover, a power-hungry partner thirsting to rule Ukraine and a demented victim.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=arYNcHa11dXA&refer=culture (557 words)

	ionarts
		Far from the young Romantic hero bound naked to a wild horse as punishment for an adultery, set to verse by Byron [Mazeppa] and Victor Hugo (Les Orientales), Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa is an old man. But he has kept his power and seductiveness.
		But Serge Dorny preferred to remain at the Opéra de Lyon, the second opera stage of France after the Opéra de Paris (in the hands of another Belgian, Gérard Mortier), having found in the City of the Gauls the means to develop the sort of original programming that he loves.
		That's the case with this cycle of Tchaikovsky operas based on Pushkin, entrusted to Peter Stein, the former director of the Berlin Schaubühne, for a time responsible for the theatrical wing of the Salzburg Festival, and above all a major figure in German and European theater.
	ionarts.blogspot.com /2006/02/mazeppa-in-lyon.html (1302 words)

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