DVD0443. LE COQ D’OR (Rimsky-Korsakov), Live Performance, 1986, w.Katanian Cond. Spendaryan Ensemble; Grigor Gondgian, Ruben Kubelian, Ellada Chakhoyan, Susanna Martirosian, etc. VAI 4518. - 089948451891

CRITIC REVIEWS: “The sets are lavish. The costumes are lavish. The singing is lavish….This 1986 COCKEREL performance comes from Yerevan, Armenia. It is stylistically authentic with the lower voices…profoundly deep, colorful and sturdy….”

- Charles H. Parsons, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, Jan./Feb., 2011

“Another important volume in VAI’s series of Russian operatic masterpieces, LE COQ D’OR was Rimsky-Korsakov’s last, and most modern opera. Completed in 1907, the opera’s biting satire of the Tsar and Russian imperialism made it controversial for its time, delaying the premiere until about a year after Rimsky-Korsakov’s death, in 1909. This DVD presents a stylistically authentic live 1986 performance by the Yerevan Alexander Spendiaryan State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, under the direction of the company’s Music Director, Aram Katanian.”