The Tale of the Lackey Nikishka

In St. Petersburg, behind the Narva outpost, there is great excitement - the revolutionary Nechaev has appeared, who will incite the workers to fight. Neither the policeman, nor the policeman, nor the owner of the tavern - no one knows what he looks like. But everyone is determined to catch him.

A musical TV play based on the musical "My Fair Lady" by A.J. Lerner with music by F.Lowe, based on Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion". The ballet master of the TV play is Kirill Laskari.

This television opera is based on Boris Asafiev's work "The Treasurer's Wife," which, in turn, is an opera adaptation of M.Y. Lermontov's poem "The Tambov Treasurer's Wife." The action takes place in the early 19th century in the provincial town of Tambov. The quiet, measured life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a cavalry regiment. The old treasurer throws a ball, where he loses his entire fortune and his beautiful wife to the young cavalryman Garin in a card game.

Soviet television production of Verdi's opera Rigoletto performed in Russian transition by the Dmitri Shostakovich Leningrad Philharmonic and Kirov (Mariinsky) Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

Based on a story by Nikolai Berezovsky, using fragments from O. Henry's short story "Peaches."