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He is regarded as a composer of a few famous operas: Lyubovnik – koldun (The Lover-Magician 1772 Moscow), Rozana i Lyubim (Rozana und Lyubim 1778, Moscow), Derevenskiy vorozheya (The Village Wizard c. 1777 Moscow) (Overture and songs were printed in Moscow 1778; They were the first opera fragments printed in Russia) and Guljanye ili sadovnik ...
The song became one of the earliest Russian art songs to become widely known in Western Europe. [5] The song became known outside Russia after Pauline Viardot introduced it into Rosina's singing lesson scene in Rossini's The Barber of Seville. In this she was followed by the Italian sopranos Adelina Patti and Marcella Sembrich and others.
Rusalka (pronounced ⓘ), Op. 114, is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.His ninth opera (1900–1901), [1] it became his most successful, frequenting the standard repertoire worldwide.
A number of Russian opera singers rose to fame already in the 18th century, but it was the late 19th and the 20th centuries that saw the appearance of many world-renown, well-remembered and still popular soloists, including Leonid Sobinov, Galina Vishnevskaya and, of course, Feodor Chaliapin, the greatest bass of all time.
Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, romanized: Borís Godunóv listen ⓘ) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Donizetti's most famous tragic opera, notable for Lucia's mad scene. [69] 1836 A Life for the Tsar (Mikhail Glinka). Glinka established the tradition of Russian opera with this historical work and the later Ruslan and Lyudmila. [70] 1836 Les Huguenots (Giacomo Meyerbeer). Perhaps the most famous of all French grand operas, widely regarded as ...
For important selections within an opera, go to the Wikipedia article for that opera, listed below and on the Wikipedia category-page for Cui's operas. Many individual compositions by Cui (primarily songs and choral pieces) have been published over the years, especially in English and French editions, without information as to opus number, if any.
Genre IMG Date Russian title (original title) English title Scoring Notes Stage: 23: 1834–1836: Жизнь за царя: A Life for the Tsar: Opera in 5 acts; new version (1837) in 4 acts and epilogue; original title: Ivan Susanin