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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 Dawns Here Are Quiet (opera) Dead Souls (opera) The Decembrists (opera) The Demon (opera) The Devil in Love (opera) The Diary of Anne Frank (opera) Dmitry Donskoy (opera) Dobrynya Nikitich (opera) Dream on the Volga; Dubrovsky (opera)
Judith (Russian: Юдифь, romanized: Yudíf – stress on second syllable) is an opera in five acts, composed by Alexander Serov during 1861–1863. Derived from renditions of the story of Judith from the Old Testament Apocrypha, the Russian libretto, though credited to the composer, has a complicated history.
Smirnov was equally comfortable performing lyric roles in Russian, French or Italian opera. His voice was plaintive in tone with easy high notes, great breath control, and a distinctive vibrato. Smirnov's main tenor rivals in Moscow and St Petersburg prior to the 1917 Revolution had been Leonid Sobinov (1871–1934) and Ivan Yershov (1867–1943).
The Miserly Knight, Op. 24, also The Covetous Knight (Russian: Скупой рыцарь, Skupój rýtsar’), is a Russian opera in one act with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the libretto based on Alexander Pushkin's drama of the same name. It contains roles for five male singers, but no females.
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Maddalena (Russian: Маддалена) is an opera in one act by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, who also wrote the libretto based on a play of the same name by Magda Gustavovna Lieven-Orlov (under the pen name Baron Lieven). [1] That play was in turn based on Oscar Wilde's play A Florentine Tragedy.