The Scarlet Sails

The Scarlet Sails (Russian: Алые паруса) - opera extravaganza, recorded in 1976 by the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Music" to the music of Andrei Bogoslovsky. The plot of the performance is the story of Alexander Green's "Scarlet Sails."

Recorded by the All-Union Recording Studio “Melody” of the USSR in 1976 (2 LP LPs, the album was released in 1983), sound engineer - V. Bednov, editor - V. Ryzhikov.

Plot
The story of Alexander Green about the unshakable faith and the all-conquering, lofty dream, about what everyone can do for a loved one a miracle. It was written in the years 1916-1922. In 1955, in the book “The Golden Rose”, Konstantin Paustovsky evaluated the significance of the novel as follows: “If Green died, leaving us only one of his poems in the prose“ Scarlet Sails ”, then this would be enough to put him in the ranks of wonderful writers disturbing the human heart with a call for excellence."

Cast

 * Assol - T. Shabelnikova
 * Gray - S. Stanishevsky
 * Storyteller - Y. Slobodkin
 * Gray's mother - N. Kireev
 * I assistant captain, innkeeper, coal miner, Gray's father - N. Vorobyov
 * II Assistant Captain - V. Romantsev
 * Sailors, household, clerks, townspeople - vocal group VIA "Music"