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Russian opera (Russian: Ру́сская о́пера Rússkaya ópera) is the art of opera in Russia.Operas by composers of Russian origin, written or staged outside of Russia, also belong to this category, as well as the operas of foreign composers written or intended for the Russian scene.
The premiere took place in Saint Petersburg on 27 November 1842 at the Bolshoi Kamenniy Teatr.The initial lack of enthusiasm for this Russian-inspired production has been attributed to the Saint Petersburg's audience's growing taste at the time for Italian opera, which was so pronounced that in 1843, Tsar Nicholas I established an Italian opera company in the Bolshoi Kamenniy Teatr, and the ...
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.
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.
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.
The Nightingale (Russian: Соловей, romanized: Solovey) is a short opera in three acts by Igor Stravinsky to a Russian-language libretto by him and Stepan Mitusov, based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen: a nasty Chinese Emperor is reduced to tears and made kind by a small grey bird.
Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина, IPA: [xɐˈvanʲɕːɪnə] ⓘ, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was ...
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 ...