Stadium (rock opera)

Stadium (soviet rock opera)

"Stadium" - a rock opera 1985 year by Russian composer and singer Alexander Gradsky with a libretto by poetess Margarita Pushkina about the events in Chile in 1973 year and murder of singer Victor Jara.

Rock opera in two acts, four scenes.

Content

1 Cast

2 Story

3 About the album

Cast

Singer - Alexander Gradsky

Lucia, his wife - Alla Pugacheva

Woman - Elena Kamburova

Priest - Andrey Makarevich

Captain - Vladimir Mozenkov

Lieutenant - Alexander Losev

Sergeant - Joseph Kobzon

Merchant lemonade (little man) - Alexander Marshal

"Echidna" - Alexander Kutikov

"Coward" - Andrey Mironov

"Boor" - Mikhail Boyarsky

"Progressive" - Taras Kalinichenko

"Leftist" - Vladimir Kuzmin

Fishmonger - Alexander Kataev

Seller buns - Eugeny Sersnovs

flower-girls - Irina and Elena Bazykin' s

Newsboys - Yuri Shahnazarov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Vsevolod Abdulov, Alexander Kazakov

Story

The basis of the rock opera have become events, which occurred in Chile in 1973, when a military coup was removed from power left government "Popular Unity". The military junta, which staged a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, immediately repressed by thousands of supporters of the ousted government. Stadium in Santiago was converted into a prison, where to send all suspicious people. One of the prisoners was the singer Victor Jara, who was arrested at the University of Santiago 12 September 1973 year for having he contributed to the implementation of communist ideas. He was brutally murdered. Within four days his beaten, tortured with electric shocks, broke his hands and eventually shot.

Name Victor Jara in the rock opera is not mentioned. Country in which these events occur, in the opera, also is not named, but the outline of the plot quite clearly points on the real facts.

About the album

This album recorded in USSR on Recording Studio "Melodiya" in 1983–1985 years and released as a double LP in 1985 year.