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The music of another successful Russian opera Melnik – koldun, obmanshchik i svat (The Miller who was a Wizard, a Cheat and a Match-maker, text by Alexander Ablesimov, Moscow, 1779), on a subject resembling Rousseau’s Le Devin du village, is attributed to a theatre violin player and conductor Mikhail Matveyevich Sokolovsky (c. 1756
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.
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.
Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, romanized: Knyaz Igor, listen ⓘ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin.The composer adapted the libretto from the early Russian epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of the 12th-century prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Cuman ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185. [1]
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 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 ...
Ruslan and Lyudmila (Russian: Руслан и Людмила, romanized: Ruslán i Lyudmíla listen ⓘ) is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842. The libretto was written in Russian by Valerian Shirkov, with minor contributions by Mykola Markevych , Nestor Kukolnik , and the composer based on ...
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.