Artemy Belyakov in Ivan The Terrible (Act II) Артемий Беляков в балете Иван Грозный (моменты 2 Акта)

Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich Sets and costumes: Simon Virsaladze Music Director: Vassily Sinaisky Lighting Designer: Mikhail Sokolov Designers of scenery revival: Natalia Pavlova, Mikhail Sapozhnikov Designer of costumes revival: Elena Merkurova Music: excerpts from music to the film Ivan the Terrible, Russian Overture, cantata Alexander Nevsky, The Third Symphony Mikhail Chulaki’s version and additional music excerpts People dressed in monastic garb appear: these are the Oprichniki the tsar decided to surround himself with. He entrusts them with exterminating treason and crushing the power of the boyars. The boyars are seized and massacred by the Oprichniki. Ivan the Terrible personally takes reprisal against them. Dark are Ivan’s thoughts — the thoughts of a man who lost his love, of a tsar surrounded by enemies. Haunted by phantoms, Ivan writhes at the thought that he has given up humanity in his struggle and has doomed himself to a life of loneliness. Frantically does Ivan the Terrible seek a way out of the labyrinth of contradictions set up by history.