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In 2021 a large-scale plan of events is being implemented to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. To celebrate his anniversary, Russian Seasons, a unique online platform of the international cultural project Stay Home with Russian Seasons, prepared a play’s broadcast based on Dostoevsky’s story ‘White Nights’ and an art video lecture about the film adaptations of this work.It is generally believed that Fyodor Dostoyevsky was one of those who shaped the Russians’ national thinking and opened up the ‘Russian world’ to foreign readers. The works of Fyodor Mikhailovich reveal themselves from unexpected angles with each new reading and remain relevant and contemporary no matter where or when they are read.On Tuesday, November 23, there will be a screening of an archival recording of the play ‘White Nights’ at the St. Petersburg Opera Theater. In 1968, Yuri Butsko completed his opera ‘White Nights’ based on the novella by F. M. Dostoevsky. Although it features two characters, the Dreamer and Nastenka, it has the qualities of a mono-opera, a confidential monologue addressed to the audience.“I never illustrate operatic works. It’s always the stories that the theater makes upon the subject. The very figure of Fyodor Mikhailovich is interesting – his constant split personality, about which he wrote a lot. In our performance, there is even a conversation between him and himself, like Ivan Karamazov’s conversation with the devil. In this action, we have put the author’s flesh into the artistic fabric. And he has to find out to what degree he understands his story in his present condition, to what degree it is close to him. Somewhere he doesn’t like it, he empathizes, somewhere he gets actively involved in the action. It’s a very complicated, convoluted story that I invented. Butzko’s music is poignant; this music is striking. That’s why it moved me very much. I love this intonation, close to the heartbreak. Because confessionalism is an important trait of a Russian artist. It’s a confessional work,” said Yuri Alexandrov, People’s Artist of Russia and St. Petersburg Opera Chamber Music Theater Artistic Director. Dostoevsky’s 200th birth anniversary has been selected by UNESCO as an international commemoration, so we would like to present to you the project ‘In Your Own Voice’, which has received the auspices of this international organization. It tells about the journey of F.M.Dostoevsky’s story ‘White Nights’ through cinema screens of the world. The heroes of this art video lecture are eight film adaptations of the story, made between 1957 and 2017 in the Soviet Union, Russia, Italy, France, the USA, India, and the Republic of Korea.The project was developed by the Manege Museum and Exhibition Association in Moscow. The video lecture is scheduled for broadcast on the Stay Home with Russian Seasons online service on Thursday, November 25. As usual, the broadcasts will start at 18:00 CET.
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