From Russia With Mozart

From Russia with Mozart, the American Symphony Orchestra’s Lincoln Center season finale will give New York opera fans two rare listening opportunities in a single concert: both Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri and Alexander Dargomizhsky’s The Stone Guest — the latter based on the same story as Mozart’s Don Giovanni — will be performed in Russian.
Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is an additional honoree here: both operas were based on his works — as were many other Russian operas (Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, Le coq d’or, Pique Dame, Ruslan and Lyudmila, Tsar Sultan, etc.).

THE STONE GUEST (1869)
Don Juan: Leonid Zakhozhaev, tenor
Leporello: Andrey Antonov, bass
Donna Anna: Marina Shaguch, soprano
Don Carlos: David Adam Moore, baritone
Laura: Stephanie Novacek, mezzo-soprano
A Monk and The Statue: Daniel Okulitch, bass

MOZART AND SALIERI (1898)
Mozart: Leonid Zakhozhaev, tenor
Salieri: Richard Paul Fink, baritone
Marina Shaguch, soprano
Stephanie Novacek, mezzo-soprano
Andrei Antonov, bass
David Adam Moore, baritone
Daniel Okulitch, bass-baritone