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The new book, published in America as Pages of My Life (Harper and Brothers, New York 1927), took the story only up to 1905, and lacked the depth, style and life of Gorky's version. Then, in 1932, Chaliapin published Man and Mask (Alfred A. Knopf, New York) to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of his first stage appearance.
The first opera written in Russian was Araja’s Tsefal i Prokris (Cephalus and Prokris, libretto by Alexander Sumarokov) that was staged at Saint Petersburg on 7 March, [OS 27 February], 1755. The second opera set to a Russian text was Alceste , 1758, libretto by Alexander Sumarokov ) by German composer Hermann Raupach (1728–1778) also ...
Praskovia was one of the best opera singers in eighteenth-century Russia. [1] and Figes describes her as Russia's first "superstar". [2]She was born into the family of a serf blacksmith by the name of Ivan Gorbunov (a.k.a. Kovalyov) probably on the estate of Voshchazhnikovo in the province of Yaroslavl.
The Maid of Orleans (opera) The Maid of Pskov; The Mandarin's Son; Mateo Falcone (opera) Mavra; May Night; Mazeppa (opera) The Merchant Kalashnikov; The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker; The Miserly Knight; Mlada; Mlada (Rimsky-Korsakov) Monna Vanna; Moscow, Cheryomushki; Mother (Khrennikov opera) Mozart and Salieri (opera) MR ...
Judith (Russian: Юдифь, romanized: Yudíf – stress on second syllable) is an opera in five acts, composed by Alexander Serov during 1861–1863. Derived from renditions of the story of Judith from the Old Testament Apocrypha, the Russian libretto, though credited to the composer, has a complicated history.
Vladimir Pavlovich Pasyukov (Pasjukov) (Russian:Владимир Павлович Пасюков ) (July 29, 1944 – June 20, 2011) was a Russian opera, folk and choir singer who possessed a powerful, low-ranging basso profondo (oktavist) voice. He was born in Saint Petersburg. [1]
Elena Zaremba (born July 10, 1957) is a Russian-born mezzo-soprano long active in the United States.. Zaremba was born in Moscow into a family of singers, and studied at the Gnessin State Musical College, joining the Bolshoi Opera in 1984 upon graduation.
A scene from the opera The Nightingale and the Rose by Elena Firsova. The Nightingale and the Rose (Russian: Соловей и роза – Solovey i roza) is a chamber opera in one act (five scenes) by Russian composer Elena Firsova (Op. 46, 1990–1991) written to her own English libretto after Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name together with poetry by Christina Rossetti.