Nicky & Alix
The musical opera “Nicky and Alix” is a dedication to amazing sincere love of Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his wife, the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna Romanova. They managed to carry it with them for the rest of their eventful lives. Their closest associates would betray them. Their former loyal subjects would humiliate them and demand their execution. They called each other Nicky and Alix.
The musical idea was born in 2009. The website niki-alix.ru was created in June 2009. The Opera consists of 2 acts: "STAIRWAY OF LOVE" and "LOVE AND HATE". The MUSIC webpage contains few aria DEMOS. At present the most active work is focused on Act 1 and Act 2, libretto, and website pages. The project completion is planned for 2011 - 2012.
The musical uses the lyrics of the poets-contemporaries of the happening events: Maximilian Voloshin ("I’ll Be a Lampion Tonight ", "Your Love is Yearning", "Omens"), Valery Bryusov ("I Love You and the Sky "), Constantine Balmont ("Love You", "There’s Not a Day", "You’re Here", "I Am the Cry of Pain", "Our Tsar"), Ivan Bunin ("I Take Your Hand"), Sergey Bekhteyev ("God Save the Tsar", "The Prayer", "I Do Believe"), Vladimir Mayakovsky ("To Account", "The Left March"), Nikolay Gumilyov ("Our Proud Capital "), Boris Savenkov ("I w Was Walking "), the poem of the contemporary Moscow poet, Alexander Pitirimov, “Khodynka”, other authors’ lyrics.
My sincere gratitude to Oleg Shapiro and Acron Technology for the website development and design, Igor Kovalyov and Merging Technologies for the assistance in recording studio equipping, sound engineer Sergey Ousov, musicians, arrangers and singers Danil Gefele, Oleg Lyundishev, Alexander Tkachyov, Elina Bozhko, Dmitri Leven, Anatoly Chernyavsky, as well as Mikhail Sekachyov, Sergey Marichev, Igor Zhabko, Igor Kalashnikov, Sergei Gruzdev, Alexander Pitirimov and all those who have kindly rendered their assistance to the project.
Russia, Omsk. Veniamin Krotov
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