Unona and Avos

The legendary rock opera was first performed in the early 1980s. The plot of the rock opera is based on real events from the early 19th century, and its title is derived from the names of the sailing ships "Yunona" and "Avos", which were used by the expedition of the diplomat and traveler Nikolai Rezanov. Rezanov's meeting with the daughter of the commandant of San Francisco was fateful: the 42-year-old leader of the first Russian circumnavigation expedition, Rezanov, and the 16-year-old Conchita Arguello fell in love...

Last season, the Udmurt Opera celebrated its 60th anniversary. In recent years, the theater, which had hitherto occupied a very modest place on the opera map of Russia, began to assert itself louder and louder. In addition to the hackneyed mainstream classics ("Eugene Onegin", "Carmen", "La Traviata", "The Barber of Seville", etc.), rarer opuses began to appear in his repertoire (for example, Puccini's "Turandot" or the bel canto masterpiece "Norma"). In the spring of this year, the company staged Rimsky-Korsakov's grandiose liturgical opera "The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia.…