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Christmas Eve or The Night Before Christmas (Russian: Ночь перед Рождеством, romanized: Nóch péred Rozhdestvóm listen ⓘ) [a] is an opera in four acts with music and libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Like Vakula the Smith, its libretto is based on Gogol's short story "Christmas Eve". [32] La cena de nochebuena o A caza del gordo (The Christmas Eve Dinner, or In Search of the Fat Man), a sainete in one act composed by Rafael Calleja Gómez to a libretto by Ángel Caamaño Izquierdo premiered on 24 December 1896 at the Teatro Martín in ...
Christmas Eve Suite. Includes "Polonaise" (from Christmas Eve, act 3, tableaux no. 7) The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Suite: Three Musical Pictures, Op. 57 (1903) (The excerpts are the introductions to act 1; act 2; and act 4, tableau 2) "Flight of the Bumblebee" (from act 3, tableau 1) Pan Voyevoda Suite Op. 59; The Golden Cockerel
The success of Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve encouraged him to complete an opera approximately every 18 months between 1893 and 1908 — a total of 11 during this period. [89] He also started and abandoned another draft of his treatise on orchestration, [73] but made a third attempt and almost finished it in the last four years of his life.
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The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
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Op. Posth. 93, Oedipus at Colonos, incidental music for narrators, soloists, double male chorus and orchestra (1845) (MWV M 14) Op. Posth. 94 , Infelice: Unglückselge! … Kehret wieder in B-flat major for soprano and orchestra (two versions: London, 1834 and Leipzig, 1842) (MWV H 4, MWV H 5)