A rare evening of two one-act operas by Rimsky-Korsakov - a chamber drama based on Pushkin's text and a fairy tale, where cold magic collides with the living human voice. The short format keeps the tension: irony, jealousy, spells, and choral lines come together to form a cohesive story. The two one-act operas by Rimsky-Korsakov are gathered into one evening so that in a short time, one can experience two different worlds. First - a chamber story based on Pushkin's "little tragedy," where the conversation about music turns into a discussion about envy, justice, and the price of recognition. Here, the intonation of the words is important: the parts feel cramped without text, and thus you listen as thoughts are born directly in the melody. Echoes of Mozart are woven into the score - from operatic quotes to unsettling hints of the Requiem, sounding in chorus from behind the scenes. The center of the action is Salieri: a hard worker who knows how to count the laws of the craft and painfully tries to understand the nature of the gift. His monologues frame the scenes and set the narrative's nerve, while the dialogue with Mozart shifts the tone from almost everyday conversation to a high confession. This role once glorified the first performers, and today it still works without external effects - through the power of text and music. In the second part, the plot shifts into a fairy tale - with sorcery, an oath of immortality, and heroes trying to break free from foreign power. Rimsky-Korsakov masterfully combines the bright timbres of the orchestra and vocal lines so that the scenes change rapidly, without lags. The fairy-tale shell sounds sharp and mature: it contains both fear and tenderness, and the stubbornness that saves. At the podium - Zaurbek Gugkaev. The cast of singers will be announced later, but the very idea of the evening already creates intrigue: in one concert, psychological drama and theatrical fantasy meet. Synchronized subtitles in Russian and English help not to lose nuances and follow every twist of the plot. All entertainment in St. Petersburg is gathered on our website.