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The Fisherman and his Soul
Ambient opera, based on Oscar Wilde’s tale by the same name.
Music by Valentin Dubovskoy, lyrics by Natalya Piskunova.

       
Name Video/MP3   Clavier  
 1. Prologue   5:13 1
 Scene I  2. First Rendez-vous 3:19 2
   3. First song of Mermaid

2:15 3
   4. First catch

2:08 4
 Scene II  5. First invocation 1:54 5
   6. Second song of Mermaid 2:58 6
   7. Second catch 1:38 7
 Scene III  8. Second invocation 1:52 8
   9. Third song of Mermaid 1:19 9
  10. Duet of Mermaid and Fisherman 1:49 10
 Scene IV 11. Fisherman's prayer 2:04 11
 Scene V 12. Fisherman and Priest 2:48 12
 Scene VI 13. Fisherman and merchants 1:34 13
 Scene VII 14. Red Hair Witch and Fisherman 3:30 14
  15. Song of Red Hair Witch 1:46 15
 Scene VIII 16. Song of Witches 1:02 16
  17. He 1:49 17
  18. Filthy jig 1:38 18
  19. Sabbath 2:09 19
 Scene IX 20. Fisherman cutting his Soul 2:53 20
 Scene X 21. First year under the sea 3:10 21
  22. De profundis 1:54 22
  23. First Soul's return. Soul, Priest and Mirror. 8:25 23
 Scene XI 24. Second year under the sea 3:03 24
  25. Sea runes 2:40 25
  26. Second Soul's return. Soul, Emperor and Ring. 5:25 26
 Scene XII 27. Third year under the sea 1:54 27
  28. Duet of void 4:03 28
  29. Third Soul's return. Reunion. 3:52 29
 Scene XIII 30. Soul's actions 5:31 30
 Scene XIV 31. Death of Mermaid 1:36 31
  32. Death of Fisherman 2:23 32
  33. Soul's farewell 3:42 33
  34. Finale 6:34 34
35. Epilogue   2:14 35
    1:42:10  

Fisherman – Valentin Dubovskoy (1,2,4,5,7,8,10-12,14,19-20,22,23,25,26,28-30,32,35)
Mermaid – Yelena Belnova (2,3,6,9,10,28,30,31,35)
Church Choir – Yelena Belnova
, Irina Gor, Anna Gorina, Polina Kubyshkina, Svetlana Sekretar, Anna Zagorodnyaya (11)
The Priest – Alexey Gvozdizkih (12,34,35)
Merchants – Alexander Churkin
& Dmitry Gulak (13,35)
Red Hair Witch – Polina Kubyshkina (14-16,19,34,35)
Witches – Irina Gor
& Svetlana Sekretar (17,18,19,35)
Fisherman's Soul – Anna Zagorodnyaya (20,23,26,29,30,33-35)
Voice of the Sea – Svetlana Sekretar
& Dmitry Gulak (22)
Sacrificer – Alexey Gvozdizkih (23)
Emperor – Polina Kubyshkina (26)
Solo guitar – Valentin Dubovskoy (1,10,20,21,24,27,28)

In Prologue have taken part:
                 Alex Melekhov (English),
                
Svetlana Sekretar
& Dmitry Gulak (Russian),
                 David Sigal
(Hebrew),
                 Aggeliki Bahatouri (Greek),
                 Khaled Arbaoui
(Arabic),
                 Ming Zhang
(Chinese),
                 Georg Binder
(German),
                 Nikolai Gevondian
(Armenian),
                 Mohit Dubey
(Hindi),
                 Mikako Kimura
(Japanese),
                 Paul Alexis Murillo Zea
(Spanish),
                 Shankar Gowrakkla
(Kannada),
                 Rıdvan Koca
(Turkish),
                 Denis Park
(Korean),
                 Paul Alexis Murillo Zea
(Italian),
                 Dávid Tóth
(Hungarian),
                 Stiliyan Yakimov
(Bulgarian),
                 Megan Noel Wilber
(Dutch),
                 Ali Golkhar
(Persian),
                 Nguyen Khac Hoa (Vietnamese),
                 Michael Gert Hansen (Swedish),
                 Ali Kerimov (Tajik),
                 Chloé Sudre (French),
                 Beofo Hitler (Malagasy),
                 Ahid Arrusmani (Indonesian),
                 Alireza Nemati (Farsi),
                 Jesús Alberto Galindo Galindo (Portuguese),
                 Shreyas Tapale (Marathi),
                 Kaiyrzhan Amandyk (Kazakh),
                 Ahid Arrusmani (Javanese),
                 Michael Gert Hansen (Danish),
                 Venkata Kolluri (Telugu),
                 Anupam Pal (Bengal),
                 Ilhomjon Abidov (Uzbek).

The author expresses gratitude to philologists Alexandra Azarova and Elena Deniskina.

e-mail: tahuti@mail.ru