Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
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.
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 ...
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 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.
Praskovia was one of the best opera singers in eighteenth-century Russia. [1] and Figes describes her as Russia's first "superstar". [2]She was born into the family of a serf blacksmith by the name of Ivan Gorbunov (a.k.a. Kovalyov) probably on the estate of Voshchazhnikovo in the province of Yaroslavl.
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.
Worked as copyist for Alexander Sumarokov.Published his fables and satirical poems. Wrote the libretto for the early Russian-language opera by Mikhail Sokolovsky The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker (Мельник - колдун, обманщик и сват — Melnik - koldun, obmanshchik i svat 1779 Moscow, c.1795 St Petersburg), which was popular for three decades, and ...