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''Feast in Time of Plague'' (''Пир во время чумы''Пир во время чумы in Cyrillic, ''Pir vo vremja čumy'' in transliteration) is an opera (literally labeled "dramatic scenes") in one act by César Cui, composed in 1900. The libretto was taken verbatim from ''A Feast in Time of Plague'', one of the four ''Little Tragedies'' by Aleksandr Pushkin. The title has been translated also as ''Feast in the Time of the Plague'' and ''Feast during the Plague''. Cui composed and published the two songs in the play (i.e., "Mary's Song" and "Walsingham's Hymn") separately in the decade before the opera was formally composed. ==Performance history== The opera was premiered on 11 November 1901 (Old Style), in Moscow at the Noviy Theater. Although it never became part of the standard repertory, ''Feast'' was revived by the Tchaikovsky Opera in Perm, Russia in 1999 as part of a Pushkin-bicentennial performance of all four of the operatic settings of the ''Little Tragedies,'' i.e., Dargomyzhsky's ''The Stone Guest'', Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Mozart and Salieri'', and Rachmaninoff's The Miserly Knight. ''Feast'' was given its American premiere on October 14, 2009 by the Little Opera Theater of New York, directed by Philip Shneidman. A CD recording of ''Feast'' was issued on the Chandos label in 2004, with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valery Polyansky. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Feast in Time of Plague (opera)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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