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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Russian: Сказка о царе Салтане, romanized: Skazka o Tsare Saltane listen ⓘ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue (a total of seven scenes) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Flight of the Bumblebee" (Russian: Полёт шмеля) is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. This perpetuum mobile is intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic and rapidly changing flying pattern of a bumblebee.
1900 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan, opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in which the popular piece Flight of the Bumblebee is found. 1943 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan, USSR, traditionally animated film directed by Brumberg sisters. [95] 1966 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan, USSR, feature film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. [96]
The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son, the Famous and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess Swan (Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его, славном и могучем богатыре князе Гвидоне Салтановиче и о прекрасной Царевне Лебеди ...
Pages in category "Operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... The Tale of Tsar Saltan (opera) The Tsar's ...
Fairy tales and legends: The Snow Maiden, Mlada, Sadko, Kashchey the Deathless, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, and The Golden Cockerel. Of this range, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote in 1902, "In every new work of mine I am trying to do something that is new for me.
Rimsky-Korsakov was first inspired by the bylina of Sadko in 1867, when he completed a tone poem on the subject, his Op. 5. After finishing his second revision of this work in 1891, he decided to turn it into a dramatic work. [2] The music is highly evocative, and Rimsky-Korsakov's famed powers of orchestration are abundantly evident throughout ...
Rimsky-Korsakov and Belsky first became interested in writing an opera on the Kitezh legend during the winter of 1898-1899, while they were working on the libretto to The Tale of Tsar Saltan. The idea of combining the legend of Saint Fevroniya of Murom into the story was part of the project from the beginning. [2]