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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 ...
Composed between 1894 and 1895, Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera on a short story, "Christmas Eve", from Nikolai Gogol's 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. [2] The story had been used as the basis for an opera at least three times previously, including for Tchaikovsky 's Vakula the Smith (1874). [ 3 ]
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. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin.
Sadko (Russian: Садко, romanized: Sadkó listen ⓘ, the name of the main character) is an 1898 opera in seven scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.The libretto was written by the composer, with assistance from Vladimir Belsky, Vladimir Stasov, and others. [1]
The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale (Russian: Снегурочка–весенняя сказка, romanized: Snegurochka–vesennyaya skazka) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881.
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote that May Night was of great importance because, despite the opera's containing a good deal of contrapuntal music, he nevertheless "cast off the shackles of counterpoint [emphasis Rimsky-Korsakov]". [87] He wrote the opera in a folk-like melodic idiom, and scored it in a transparent manner much in the style of Glinka. [57]
Mozart and Salieri (Russian: Моцарт и Сальери, romanized: Motsart i Salyeri listen ⓘ) is a one-act opera in two scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1897 to a Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 verse drama of the same name.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897. The Golden Cockerel (Russian: Золотой петушок, romanized: Zolotoy petushok listen ⓘ) is an opera in three acts, with a short prologue and an even shorter epilogue, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, his last complete opera, before his death in 1908.