DOVBUSHDovbush is Ukraine's answer to Robin Hood (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksa_Dovbush)
Opera written in 1908, in Lviv.
Soloists:
Stepan Drobit (baritone),
Christina Makar (soprano),
Lilia Nikitchuk (mezzo-soprano),
Andriy Stetsky (baritone),
Vitaliy Koval (tenor),
Roman Grabovensky (tenor)
Ukrainian Festival Orchestra & Ukrainian Festival Choir
Ivan Ostapovych - conductor
Dramatis Personae:
OLEKSA DOVBUSH - Montenegrin leader
IVAN, Oleksa's brother, is Yugas
Fly brother Oleksi - yugas
MOM OLEKSI
DANILKO glacier - Oleksa's believer
VASYLKO Ledin-Yugas is Oleksa's treasurer
LEDINI - YUGASI - OLEKSY BOYS (Hutsuls-Volokhs-Ugrians)
GIRLS - MUSICIANS - TREMBITARI
GRANDFATHER NIKOLA Duke from Dovgopol
PARASKA girl, Grandpa's daughter
STEFAN ZVINKA is an old leader
SENYA his young woman
SEMAN Ataman, janitor from Kosmach
ERINA is a girl, his daughter
LAVNIK VLADYNIK KOLOMYSKY
POSESOR KUTSKY
MORTKO tenant from Zhebya
YANKEL lost tenant from Zhebya
PUSHKARI - ARCHERS - POLICE
SMOLEK - MESSENGERS
DEVIL
Synopsis (using google translate from the youtube page:)
Action I
Picture I. In the lower Zhebyu
Due to his incredible strength, Dovbush disperses Pushkars and Lavnyk, Posesor and Mortko in the inn, who collect money from Hutsuls and arrest opryshki. Opryshky takes Oleksa in.
Picture II. By year in Kosmach
A year later we see Dovbush and Senya in Kosmach. She meets him after the campaign, calls him a lover and worries that he will not be killed. Dovbush reveals to her a secret that has a bullet from the devil - as long as she is with him, he will not be killed.
Senya persuades her lover to be with her. Dovbush refuses, citing the fact that he has to give orders to the boys. Senya suspects that Dovbush fell out of love with her and avoids her. When she directly asks Oleksa if he loves her or not, Dovbush answers that he would love her if she didn't know the gentlemen and Semyon. Senya assures that she is loyal only to Dovbush.
Action II
Picture I. In the lower Zhebyu
In Nizhny Zheby, someone from the yard is shooting at a tavern in Dovbush, but he catches a bullet with his hand.
Picture II. In Montenegro for 2 years
Two years later. Dovbush with Paraska. She knows that Dovbush has other women, persuades him to give up his career and be alone with her.
Dovbush with Erina, his prisoner. He caresses the girl, saying that he is the King of the mountains and foothills, everyone loves him, but she does not. Yerina swears at Dovbush with all the Hutsul curses and says that she gave her heart to another - Mikhan.
While walking in an inn, Senya steals a ball from Dovbush that the devil gave him and puts a simple tin one in its place.
Danilko helps Erina to escape.
Dovbush kills Danilko. Legions are dissatisfied with this act, they say that Dovbush only plays with girls. A riot is brewing. Mikhas announces himself the new leader of the opryshki.
Oleksa's mother appears. She asks her son to stop. "Are you walking with the girls, son? Are you killing your brothers? Are you shedding your own blood?" Dovbush's mother pulls him to him, the devil draws him to himself. Oleksa dumps her mother and runs away with the devil. She falls and dies with the words "Kletiy".
Action III
In Kosmach near Gregot
In Kosmach, Dovbush comes to Seni's house and asks to let him go. She says to return to Paraska. Dovbush goes with nothing.
In the next scene, Oleksa dances with the girls and the legions. Stefan shoots him from a rock. Before Alex's death, the devil calls for his soul to return, the unclean man replies: "Ha, ha, I'm walking." Dovbush checks the bullet and realizes that it is not real. Before his death, he tells his comrades to take revenge on Seni, and bury him in Montenegro, so that no more blood is shed, they share silver and gold and go home. Senya runs in and says: "Did you do six?" She is killed by a knife to the lungs.
