#Вера СВЕШНИКОВА

[eridonna]

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂, 𝑺𝒕. 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈 (2024)

[sombredancer]

A (scary) fairytale about love for adults  —  "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain" musical

It's a relatively new Russian musical by Gleb Matveychuk (premiered in 2024), I watched it in flesh this week and felt the urge to tell someone about it. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (Хозяйка медной горы) is a character of Ural folklore (made up by a writer Pavel Bazhov, though). She is a spirit of Ural Mountains, and, as any other spirit, a trickster rather than a main character of the stories, who is kind to some people and cruel to the other. The base of the musical are three stories of Pavel Bazhov: "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain", "The Malachite Casket" and "The Stone Flower", but the stories are fused and rewritten in a more suitable for a musical way: The Mistress is not a trickster anymore but a tragic character of a story, two other main heroes are a jewelry mason Danila and a daughter of the Mistress, Tanya. The plot of the Bazhov's stories exists only as some homages in the musical's plot, so I'll recap only musical's story:

Stone masons' dance The 19th century, Ural, Russian Empire. The peasants (read: slaves) have to work at copper mines that belong to a cruel and ruthless feudalist. But there appears a problem: an evil spirit that guards the mountains has killed almost all of young mine workers.

The Mistress of the Copper Mountain kills unlucky peasants because they have come to rob her mines. There is an insanely beautiful aria of the Mistress but for some reasons unknown the director of this musical doesn't want to record audio versions of songs, so I've found her aria sung by some other artist (not the one from this musical). I don't like it, but it's better than nothing: Youtube till 3:05.

To help people, a jewelry mason Danila volunteers to go to the mines and to meet an evil spirit. When they meet, Danila asks her to stop massacring peasants because they are slaves and can't do as they please. She asks him in return to spread her warnings to feudalists: they have to leave the mountain be or they will be killed.

Danila keeps his word and gets punishment for his audacity. While getting healed by a forest witch, he learns a story of the Mistress: she was born as a result of non-consensual sex of Slavic Hades and Persephone, unloved and cursed to be unloved till the end of her days. Besides, she has got the Stone Flower, an artefact, one glance on which can reveal all the secrets of the mason craft.

Danila feels pity for the Mistress but also wants to know the secrets of the mason craft. He tries to create his best work but feels that he lacks this sacred knowledge that only the Mistress has:

Danila laments on his lack of knowledge while making a sculpture of the Mistress.

There is a beautiful aria sung by Kirill Gordeev, but I have only a pirate audio: Bilibili, timecode 48:30

As soon as Danila fulfills his promise, the Mistress allows him to ask for reward. Danila asks her to show him the Stone Flower - the secret of the mason craft:

Unexpectant, the mysteries of the Universe reveal to him the perfectness of the Mistress and he falls in love with her:

She isn't happy about it because after one night of love he will turn into stone, but he is eager to sacrifice himself in order to give the unloved semi-goddess a spark of love, so they spend night together:

The Mistress gives birth to a girl and gives her away to people because she thinks her stone heart can't give her daughter enough love. One peasant woman becomes girl's stepmother, names her Tanya and gives her all her love:

Meanwhile, the Mistress lives all alone in her mountains and suffers from lovesickness to her deceased lover:

The aria of the Mistress in this part is here, in amateur version on YouTube, timecode 3:06. It's melodically the same as the duet of Danila and the Mistress before they spend night together, you can hear it in the pirate version on Bilibili, timecode 56:15. Although Tanya is loved by her stepmother, peasants find her strange and avoid her, and even want to hurt her, thinking she is an evil spirit herself. So her mother gives her magical dowry that wakes up her semi-goddess powers:

Then the Mistress punishes feudalists and their servants who tortured slaves, partly herself, partly with her daughter's hands.

This guy was eager to kill and torture peasants by feudalist's orders, so it was a pure pleasure to see this maniac get killed.

Tanya is extremely not happy about being used for the bloodshed, so she blames her mum for being a monster and herself for being a monster's daughter. I like this song a lot. And again, only pirate version: bilibili, timecodes 1:14:55 and 1:44:15. But the Mistress explains her about the curse and her stepmother says she has got a kind human heart of her father, so Tanya decides to take mother's curse to herself. Her kind heart will allow her to be benevolent and generous mistress of Ural mountains.

Tanya puts mother's cursed crown on. The dissipated curse releases the Mistress of the Copper Mountain and brings Danila to life. Now they can finally be together. The only one official audio from this musical is the final duet of the Mistress and Danila (Vera Sveshnikova and Kirill Gordeev are singers from the musical):

I liked that it was a pretty feministic story: "the lady in the fridge" is a man, the one who finds something beautiful in the monster and sacrifices himself in the name of love is man as well. It's pretty fresh. The main idea "love defeats everything" is not from Bazhov's stories but it's an immortal idea. And the plot of returning an evil creature to the light side by the power of love is typical Russian and sometimes Asian, so it can be something unusual for a Western viewer (for the sake of variety). At last, let me show you some pirate medley of video scenes from the musical:

P.S.: I also like the aria of the feudalist "Equality is a myth", but even pirate version is of almost unbearable quality. But it's here, Bilibili, timecode 31:00.

[elenavonkrolock]

I think my Roman Empire (at least one of them) is Vera!Danvers singing Rebecca reprise and looking straight into my camera during the refrain

[russianjw]

РОССИЯ

Дело Свешникова и Попова в Коврове

Свешников Михаил

Обновлено: 22 сентября 2023 г.

ФИО: Свешников Михаил Владимирович

Дата рождения: 20 декабря 1969 г.

Текущий статус в уголовном деле: обвиняемый

Статьи УК РФ: 282.2 (2)

Провел под стражей: 1 день в ИВС, 29 дней под домашним арестом

Текущие ограничения: домашний арест

Биография

В 2012 году старшая дочь Михаила Све́шникова погибла в автокатастрофе. Сил пережить это семье придала вера в библейское учение о воскресении. Однако именно из-за любви к Библии мужчина оказался фигурантом уголовного дела в августе 2023 года.

Михаил родился в 1969 году в городе Коврове (Владимирская область). Когда ему был�� 4 года, родители развелись. Мать работала на заводе контролером ОТК. Позже она вышла замуж за своего коллегу, и у 12-летнего Михаила появился младший брат.

В начальных классах Михаил занимался спортивной гимнастикой, в старших —увлекался резьбой по дереву, делал подарки друзьям и близким своими руками. После школы он поступил в техникум и в 1989 году получил профессию техника-механика.

Вернувшись в 1991 году из армии, Михаил пошел работать на завод, где трудились его мама и отчим. Был токарем, фрезеровщиком. До уголовного преследования был дворником в спортивном комплексе, но из-за домашнего ареста потерял эту работу, что отразилось на финансовом ��оложении его семьи.

Вернувшись из армии, Михаил познакомился с Еленой, студенткой медучилища, а позже — медсестрой Ковровской городской больницы. в 1992 году они поженились и вскоре переехали в поселок Мелехово (Владимирская область). Супруги вырастили двоих сыновей и двух дочерей. Старший сын женат, живет отдельно. Свободное время Михаил с женой и детьми проводят вместе: ходят на речку или озеро, гуляют в лесу, катаются на велосипедах.

Когда Михаилу было 8 лет, умер его дедушка, которого он очень любил. «Почему люди умирают и что происходит после смерти? Долгие годы эти вопросы не давали мне покоя», — вспоминает мужчина. Когда старшая дочь и жена начали исследовать Библию, он услышал от них ответы на свои вопросы. Первым в семье в 2009 году стал на христианский путь старший сын Свешниковых, родители последовали его примеру в 2011 году, а вслед за ними и старшая дочь. Михаил считает, что христианские ценности благотворно повлияли на всех его детей: на их отношение к родителям, на формирование жизненных ценностей.

Сводка по делу

Регион:

Владимирская область

Населенный пункт:

Ковров

Номер уголовного дела:

12302170013000077

Возбуждено:

22 августа 2023 г.

Текущая стадия дела:

предварительное следствие

Статьи УК РФ:

282.2 (2)

История дела

[leoni--123]

Tanz der Vampire 12.06.2018

[prettynerdieworks]

“Царит над миром тьма, И рвётся душа в эту тьму.”

[eyes-like-the-night]

Vera Sveshnikova: *singing Rebecca from Rebecca das Musical*

Me:

[loki-the-true-king]

There was the on-line concert of Vera Sveshnikova and Kirill Gordeev (Sarah and Herbert from Russian production of Tanz der Vampire) and they sang Totale Finsternis in Russian together. If you want to listen, juct click the button. I cut this from the video. They are just amazing! I adore Kirill and his deep voice! 

Art is by  bloodyscarletdeath.tumblr.com

[siegelst]

oh shitn i fell into the RU opera musicals again yall thanks Иван Ожогин & Вера Свешникова .

[spbteatr]

Вера СВЕШНИКОВА и Кирилл ГОРДЕЕВ 🎵Концерт в день рождения композитора Андрея Петрова

Сквер Андрея Петрова (Каменноостровский пр. 28-30)

[bloodyscarletdeath]

[eridonna]

RIP Russian Production of Elisabeth, you would've been way too powerful if you existed 🙏🏻

The photos are from the Hits of Broadway concert where certain Elisabeth songs were performed, many of which can be found on YT. We're not getting an official Russian Production anytime soon.

[jolselin]

don’t rain on my parade/не порти мне праздник performed by vera sveshnikova at 01.10.2021 broadway hits concert

[elenavonkrolock]

Graf von Krolock wearing his black ring:

and here we have Sarah, wearing the exact same ring in the Bal Vampirov Finale (whereas he is not wearing it any longer):

[leoni--123]

Tanz der Vampire 12.06.2018 

[prettynerdieworks]

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