The Fair at Sorochyntsi

• Tcherevik, a farmer ( bass)
• Chiwrja, Tscherewiks wife (mezzo- soprano)
• Parasja, Tscherewiks daughter (Soprano)
• Kum, the godfather ( bass-baritone )
• Grizko, a young farmer (Tenor)
• Afanassi Ivanovich, son of the priest (tenor )
• A gypsy ( bass)
• Tschernobog, Oberteufel ( bass)
• Choir

The Fair Sorochyntsi is the title of a comic opera by Modest Mussorgsky based on the eponymous short story from the collection Evenings on the hamlet in Dikanka of Nikolai Gogol. The premiere took place in 1911 in Saint Petersburg.

Action

Full of joy, visited farmer Tcherevik the carnival of Sorochyntsi. A gypsy entertains the people with an exciting story about the devil. This is every year as boar dressed make the fair uncertain.

In the meantime Tscherewiks daughter Parasja flirting with the young Grizko. He might be Tcherevik as a son-in welcome, but Tscherewiks contentious woman are Chiwrja has something about it. The Gypsy offers Gritzko to help.

One evening Chiwrja expects her lover, Afanassi. Suddenly Tcherevik returns with many guests and Chiwrja must hide her lover. To the dismay of all the devil appears with the boar mask the window. Afanassi immediately falls into a swoon, but the supposed devil emerges as the Gypsies. Caught red-handed now agrees Chiwrja her daughter's wedding a. With a merry dance ( Gopak ) ends the opera.

Music

Like most of his works could not complete this opera itself Mussorgsky. The most common version is the consummate of Nikolai Tcherepnin and 1923, first performed version.

As in all his works and the Fair at Sorochyntsi is peppered with bold harmonies. The music is often used tonmalerisch and underscores the action. The written by Moussorgsky orchestral work Night on Bald Mountain is a dramatic dream sequence use.