The premiere of the play in The B. A. Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theater was held on June 14, 2000. Boris Alexandrovich was very fond of Gogol and worshiped Mussorgsky. «Sorochinskaya fair» belongs to the best directorial works of the master of the last period of his work. For this performance, the Chamber Music Theater received the State Prize of Russia and resumed it in the 2018/19 season.
The night on Bald Mountain, the Red Vest, and other supernatural phenomena, imbued with the unique Little Russian flavor and a special, distinctly Gogol‑like humor — this is the backdrop against which the love of Gritsko and Paraska, the heroes of «The Fair at Sorochyntsi,» a story from the cycle «Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka,» is set to music by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, flourishes.
