Author: Alexander Pushkin

Director: Vitaly Labutin

Artist: Julia Sheremetova

Composers: Vitaly Labutin, Eva Chervonenko

Video artist: Ilya Derzaev

Actors: Fedor Kokorev, Eva Chervonenko, Leyli Shikhaliva

A contemplative space trip over the seas and oceans in a barrel with generative art, the opera of Vitaly Labutin is built as an integration of sound and symbol into the space of the theater, stage reality - into the audience. Most of the play takes place in interdependent sound and digital layers, where each change in sound - frequency, voice strength, pause, notes, synthesizer sequences - entails a change in image parameters. The principle of a multi-genre performance connecting Pushkin's fairy tale with digital opera and electronic live concert is the appearance of sound and visual in the presence of the viewer. Music is born here and now from samples and a synthesizer; Ilya Derzayev’s real-time generative art is accompanied by Eva Chervonenko’s vocals, ranging from Slavic folk to gospel music. The fairy-tale world penetrates reality through a stream of electronic music of various styles, receiving a rethinking and confirmation in digital reality.

Before us is a complex network of images, in the center of which there is a woman-Queen, on behalf of whom the narration is being conducted, she is a mother, a bride, surrounding reality, which does not have a real body, but broadcast through chill-rave beat and unique vocals of Eva Chervonenko (Eva Chero), who acts both as a singer, and as a co-author of music, and as the author of the libretto, who laid the outline of the tale in thirteen tracks. In the mutual influence of everything on everything, a transition is recorded - digital art into a fairy tale, stage transformation - into reality, folklore - into modern music, audible into visible.