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| Teatro de la Zarzuela newsletter October 2018 HOME | SEASON | SUBSCRIPTIONS AND TICKETS | DIDACTIC PROJECTS | AUDITIONS | GALLERY | WHAT'S NEW | ABOUT US | INFO | JOIN US | ||||||||||
| Katiuska is the first work for the stage that Pablo Sorozábal composed, as the composer turned from symphonic to lyrical music. His talent, not just for orchestras and melodies, but also for the stage, made him the focal point of the last period in the history of the Zarzuela. The work shows a clear interest in telling a simple story set against the background of an episode in the history of Russia, but without delving too deeply into its complicated twists and turns. This is why there is only one tacit protest almost at the end of Act One, made by Katiuska to her beloved Bolshevik about the evil of his co-sympathisers, although he does reproach his beloved princess and a group of nobles – now taken prisoner – for the centuries of oppression and hunger under the Tsarist regime. Emilio Sagi, the stage director, presents the story as an exercise in escapism for the audience of the time, in the face of the harsh reality. His intention, to produce a Katiuska which is “cinematic and nostalgic” and “embodies those grey years” of the 1917 Revolution, shut into a gigantic golden frame against a countryside in ruins; the effect of all this is a series of framed scenes of great expressiveness. The musical and theatrical beauty of Sorozábal’s work reaches new dimensions because it does not fall into the trap of showing a popular or folkloric vision of the tale. | ||||||||||
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