THE ROCK OPERA
NICKY and ALIX
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (19 July 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement.
The musical uses the lyrics of the poets-contemporaries of the happening events: Maximilian Voloshin ("I’ll Be a Lampion Tonight ", "Your Love is Yearning", «Omens», "Lie to Me"), Valery Bryusov ("I Love You and the Sky "), Konstantine Balmont ("Love You", "There’s Not a Day", "You’re Here", "I Am the Cry of Pain", "Our Tsar"), Ivan Bunin ("I Take Your Hand"), Sergey Bekhteyev ("God Save the Tsar", "The Prayer", "I Do Believe"), Vladimir Mayakovsky ("To Account", "The Left March"), Nikolay Gumilyov ("Our Proud Capital "), Boris Savenkov ("I w Was Walking "), the poem of the contemporary Moscow poet, Alexander Pitirimov, “Khodynka”, other authors’ lyrics.
Ivan Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (22 October 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories is considered to be one of the richest in the language.
Konstantin Balmont
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (15 June 1867 – 23 December 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet and translator. He was one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Maximilian Voloshin
УMaximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin (May 28, 1877 – November 8, 1932), was a Russian poet. He was one of the significant representatives of the Symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature. He was known for his brilliant translations of a number of French poetic and prose works into Russian.
Aleksey Pleshcheyev
Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (4 December 1825 – 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poet of the 19th century. Pleshcheyev's first book of poetry, published in 1846, made him famous: "Step forward! Without fear or doubt..." became widely known as "a Russian La Marseillaise" (and was sung as such, using French melody), and "We're brothers by the way we feel..." were also adopted by the mid-1840s' Russian radical youth as revolutionary hymns.
Alexander Pitirimov