Stadium (rock opera)
Stadium is a 1985 rock opera by Russian composer and singer Alexander Gradsky with a libretto by poet Margarita Pushkina about the events in Chile in 1973 and murder of singer Victor Jara.
The rock opera in two acts, four scenes.
This album was recorded in USSR on Recording Studio "Melodiya" in 1983–1985 and released as a double LP in 1985.
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
Plot
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.