The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and opera performances. Before the October Revolution it was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire along with Maly Theatre in Moscow and a few theatres in Saint Petersburg.
The Golden Cockerel is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, his last opera he completed before his death in 1908. Its libretto written by Vladimir Belsky derives from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem The Tale of the Golden Cockerel. The opera was completed in 1907 and premiered in 1909 in Moscow, after the composer's death. Outside Russia it has often been performed in French as Le coq d'or.
Khovanshchina is an opera 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 almost finished in piano score when the composer died in 1881, but the orchestration was almost entirely lacking.
War and Peace is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its Russian libretto was prepared by the composer and Mira Mendelson. The first seven scenes are devoted to peace, the latter six, after the epigraph, to war.
Sergei Ivanovich Zimin was the Russian entrepreneur and opera manager. In 1903 he founded Zimin Opera company.
Mlada 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.
Russian opera 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. These are not only Russian-language operas. There are examples of Russian operas written in French, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Japanese, or the multitude of languages of the nationalities that were part of the Empire and the Soviet Union.
The Private Opera, also known as:
The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, also known as the Moscow Drama Theatre K. S. Stanislavsky is a music theatre in Moscow.
Maly Theatre is a theatre in Moscow, Russia, principally associated with the production of plays. Established in 1806 and operating on its present site on the Theatre Square since 1824, the theatre traces its history to the Moscow University drama company, established in 1756. In the 19th century, Maly was "universally recognized in Russia as the leading dramatic theatre of the century", and was the home stage for Mikhail Shchepkin and Maria Yermolova. 40 of Alexander Ostrovsky's 54 plays premiered at Maly, and the theatre was known as The House of Ostrovsky. The Maly Theatre in Moscow and Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg "to a great extent determined the development of Russian theatre during the 19th and 20th century".
Georgy Andreyevich Baklanoff, known as Georges Baklanoff was a Russian operatic baritone who had an active international career from 1903 until his death in 1938. Possessing a powerful and flexible voice, he sang roles from a wide variety of musical periods and in many languages. He was also highly praised by audience and critics for his acting abilities.
Sergei Petrovich Yudin was a leading Russian operatic tenor with a lyric voice. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1933.
Valeria Vladimirovna Barsova, PAU, was a Russian operatic soprano, one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of the first half of the 20th century in Russia.
Zimin may refer to
Vasily Rodionovich Petrov was an outstanding Russian opera singer (bass).
Zimin is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Zimina. It may refer to
Events from the year 1903 in Russia
Dmitry Borisovich Zimin was a Russian radio scientist and businessman, who was the founder and honorary president of VimpelCom. From his retirement in the early 2000s, he became known as a philanthropist. He founded the Dynasty Foundation and the Zimin Foundation.
Nikolai Dmitryevich Vekov was a Russian opera and operetta artist (baritone) and director. He was one of the most popular artists of his time.
Nausicaa was the third opera by Australian composer and music critic Peggy Glanville-Hicks, composed from 1959 to 1960 and premiering in 1961. The opera is one of the two best-known works by the composer, the other being The Transposed Heads, and takes about 2 hours to perform. The bulk of the opera's libretto was sourced from Robert Graves' 1955 novel Homer's Daughter and is used as evidence to suggest that Homer's epic poem The Odyssey was actually written by a woman instead of Homer. In 1956, Glanville-Hicks enlisted the help of friend and librettist Alastair Reid to work on the libretto, in conjunction with Graves.
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