Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Tsar's Bride (Russian: Царская невеста, romanized: Tsarskaya nevesta listen ⓘ) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer's tenth opera. The libretto, by Ilia Tyumenev, is based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey. Mey's play was first suggested to the composer as an opera subject in 1868 by Mily ...
The Tsar's Bride (Russian: Царская невеста, romanized: Tsarskaja nevesta) is an historical verse drama in four acts by Lev Mei from 1849. [1] Fifty years later Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov used the play as the basis for his opera of the same name . [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" ... The Tsar's Bride (opera) This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 17:25 (UTC). ...
Collection of Sacred Musical Arrangements by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Used at the Imperial Court, Op. 22b, 1884; contains 6 hymns based on chant melodies; Collection of Sacred Musical Compositions and Arrangements by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov for Mixed Chorus, 1883–1884; contains 23 pieces, published posthumously in 1913
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]
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 story of Marfa's selection and death is the base of the historical verse drama The Tsar's Bride by Lev Mei. The opera by the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is repertory opera in Russia. References
Mlada (Russian: Млада, romanized: Mláda listen ⓘ) is an opera-ballet in four acts, composed between 1889 and 1890 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, to a libretto by Viktor Krylov that was originally employed for an aborted project of the same name from 1872.