NUNC DIMITTIS - choreography: Nacho Duato, music: Arvo Pärt, Mikhailovsky Chorus: Pedro Alcalde

15 March 2011: World Premiere of Nacho Duato's NUNC DIMITTIS at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Mikhailovsky Ballet
Soloist: Ekaterina Borchenko
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Set and Costumes: Nacho Duato
Lighting: Brad Fields
The Mikhailovsky Chorus / Vocal soloists: Mikhail Ivanov, Anna Startseva, Alexandra Kalinina, Sergey Yavushkin / Organ: Marianna Domnikova
Conductor: Pedro Alcalde

MUSIC:
Arvo Pärt:
00:00 Agnus Dei – Berliner Messe
02:17 Littlemore Tractus
11:44 Nunc Dimittis
David Azagra:
08:49 Da lontanto (with the Mikhailovsky's Set of Bells)

TEXTS:
AGNUS DEI
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem

LITTLEMORE TRACTUS
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
(John Henry Newman: "Wisdom and Innocence", sermon preached on February 1843 in Littlemore)

NUNC DIMITTIS
Nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine,
Secundum verbum tuum in pace:
Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum,
Quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum:
Lumen ad revelationem gentium,
Et gloriam plebis tuae Israel.
(Vulgata: Secundum Lucam)
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Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto,
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper,
et in saecula saeculorum.
Amen