In which opera by Rimsky-Korsakov does 'King Dodon' appear?
"Kaschey the Deathless, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, The Golden Cockerel, and over 40 romances. The composer’s study does not contain a piano: Rimsky-Korsakov usually worked at a writing desk, trusting his unique inner ear. At another desk would sit Nadezhda, faithful assistant in all her husband’s musical undertakings, making corrections and piano arrangements of his symphonic and operatic works. In her youth Nadezhda had herself composed music and was a brilliant pianist. Musical soirées would take place in the drawing room. By 1905 these had become such regular events as to be"
"Dodonov (Boyar-in-attendance). The production ran for 10 performances. 1896, Saint Petersburg – Premiere of the Rimsky-Korsakov edition The Rimsky-Korsakov edition premiered on 28 November 1896 in the Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov conducted. The cast included Mikhail Lunacharsky (Boris), Gavriil Morskoy (Pretender), Nikolay Kedrov (Rangoni), and Fyodor Stravinsky (Varlaam). The production ran for 4 performances. 1898, Moscow – Fyodor Shalyapin as Boris Bass Fyodor Shalyapin first appeared as Boris on 7 December 1898 at the Solodovnikov Theatre in a Private Russian Opera production. The Rimsky-Korsakov edition of 1896 was performed. Production personnel included Savva Mamontov (producer),"
"Grigory Pirogov Grigory Stepanovich Pirogov (Григорий Степанович Пирогов) (Ryazan January 24, 1885 – February 20, 1931) was a Russian bass opera singer. Grigory was born in the village of Novoselki, Ryazan, one of four of five brothers who became singers, most notably including his younger brother Alexander Pirogov who from 1924 to 1954 was one of the bass soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre. Grigory also had earlier performed at the Bolshoi. Grigory notably followed basses Nikolay Speransky (premiere 1909) and Vasily Osipov (Bolshoi 1909) in performing the role of King Dodon in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel. As a soloist"
"in an adapted version. In April 1907, Rimsky-Korsakov conducted a pair of concerts in Paris, hosted by impresario Sergei Diaghilev, which featured music of the Russian nationalist school. The concerts were hugely successful in popularizing Russian classical music of this kind in Europe, Rimsky-Korsakov's in particular. The following year, his opera ""Sadko"" was produced at the Paris Opéra and ""The Snow Maiden"" at the Opéra-Comique. He also had the opportunity to hear more recent music by European composers. He hissed unabashedly when he heard Richard Strauss's opera ""Salome"", and told Diaghilev after hearing Claude Debussy's opera ""Pelléas et Mélisande"", ""Don't"
"historical operas, ""The Maid of Pskov"" (1873) and ""Boris Godunov"" (1874). This period also marks the creation of two new characters, the deserters Skula and Yeroshka, who have much in common with the rogue monks Varlaam and Misail in ""Boris Godunov"". In his memoirs, Rimsky-Korsakov mentions an 1876 concert at which Borodin's ""closing chorus"" was performed, the first public performance of any music from ""Prince Igor"" identified by him: The idea of a choral epilogue in the original scenario was no doubt inspired by the example of ""A Life for the Tsar"" by Mikhail Glinka, to whose memory ""Prince Igor"""
"and De Nederlandse Opera; the title role in ""Boris Godunov"" with the Komische Oper Berlin, Budapest Festival, and with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México; King Dodon in Tchaikovsky’s ""Le Coq d’Or"" with the Mariinsky Theatre; and Bedyai in Rimsky-Korsakov’s ""The Invisible City of Kitezh"" with De Nederlandse Opera. Nikita Storojev Nikita Storojev is a Russian bass opera singer. Nikita was born in 1950 in Harbin, China. His family moved back to Russia in 1955. He studied philosophy at the University of Sverdlovsk from 1970-1972, but then turned to music, studying voice at the Mussorgsky Conservatory of Yekaterinburg from 1972-1975,"
"Alexander Dodonov Alexander Mikhailovich Dodonov (, February 24, [OS 12] 1837, St Petersburg — February 1 [OS January 19], 1914, Moscow) was a Russian opera singer. Vocally, he is best described as a lyrical and dramatic tenor. He was a pupil of Felice Ronconi, Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García (son) and Francesco Lamperti. He sang for two years at the Italian operatic scenes in (Milan and Naples), then in Odessa and Kiev. He was a soloist at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre from 1869 to 1891. He sang the role of the Schoolmaster (Школьный учитель) at the premiere of Peter Tchaikovsky's opera"
"the English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote """"Il gallo d’oro"" da Rimsky-Korsakov: variazioni frivole con una fuga anarchica, eretica e perversa"". Audio Recordings (""Mainly studio recordings"", unless otherwise indicated) Source: www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk The Golden Cockerel The Golden Cockerel (, ""Zolotoy petushok"") is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. 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"
"Evening."" ""Scene 1: The bottom of the Dnieper. The underwater palace of the Rusalki."" ""Scene 2: The bank of the Dnieper River. The ruined mill."" Act 1 Other operas featuring ""rusalki"" as characters include Rimsky-Korsakov's ""May Night"" and Dvořák's ""Rusalka"". Rusalka (Dargomyzhsky) Rusalka () is an opera in four acts, six tableaux, by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, composed during 1848-1855. The Russian libretto was adapted by the composer from Pushkin's incomplete dramatic poem of the same name. It premiered on 4 May 1856 (Old Style) at the Theatre-circus, conducted by Konstantin Lyadov (father of Anatoly Lyadov), choreographed by Marius Petipa and Nikolay"
"as he worked to complete Alexander Borodin's unfinished opera ""Prince Igor,"" Rimsky-Korsakov decided to compose an orchestral piece based on pictures from ""One Thousand and One Nights"" as well as separate and unconnected episodes. After formulating musical sketches of his proposed work, he moved with his family to the Glinki-Mavriny dacha, in Nyezhgovitsy along the Cheryemenyetskoye Lake (near present-day Luga, in Leningrad Oblast). The dacha where he stayed was destroyed by the Germans during World War II. During the summer, he finished ""Scheherazade"" and the ""Russian Easter Festival Overture"". Notes in his autograph orchestral score show that the former was"
"by Dargomyzhsky (based on Pushkin) and Dvořák (based on Erben and Němcová). Lysenko's opera, on the other hand, is also based on Gogol's story. Audio Recordings (""Mainly studio recordings"") Source: www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk May Night May Night (, ""Mayskaya noch"") is a comic opera in three acts, four scenes, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from a libretto by the composer and is based on Nikolai Gogol's story ""May Night, or the Drowned Maiden"", from his collection ""Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"". The work was composed between 1878 and 1879 and first performed in 1880 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in Russia."
"opera such as Mussorgsky's ""Boris Godunov"", Glinka's ""A Life for the Tsar"", and Rimsky-Korsakov's ""The Tsar's Bride"", as well as the operas of Tchaikovsky. Many operas by western composers are also performed, especially works of Italian composers such as Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini. Until the mid-1990s, most foreign operas were sung in Russian, but Italian and other languages have been heard more frequently on the Bolshoi stage in recent years. Some operas, such as Borodin's ""Prince Igor"", include extensive ballet sequences. Many productions, especially of classic Russian opera, are performed on a grand scale, with dozens of costumed singers and"
"The Golden Cockerel The Golden Cockerel (, ""Zolotoy petushok"") is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. 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"". Rimsky-Korsakov had considered his previous opera, ""The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya"" (1907) to be his final artistic statement in the"
"David Dawson, Derek Deane, Jorma Elo, Mark Morris, Yuri Possokhov, Alexei Ratmansky, Jerome Robbins, Helgi Tomasson, Christopher Wheeldon and Hans Van Manen. Kochetkova has created principal roles in Yuri Possokhov’s Diving into the Lilacs, Raymonda Pas de Deux and Classical Symphony, Helgi Tomasson’s On a Theme of Paganini and Trio, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Number 9. She performs as a guest artist with the Bolshoi Ballet and Stanislavsky Theaters in Moscow, the Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Theaters in St. Petersburg, the Tokyo Ballet in Japan including performances as Kitri in Don Quixote for the opening night of"
"again, at London's Barbican. The only staged performance in the UK took place at the Edinburgh Festival with the Kirov and Gergiev in 1995. Source: ""Kitezh"" is arguably Rimsky-Korsakov's finest opera, often being referred to as ""the Russian ""Parsifal""; however, it is not part of the standard operatic repertoire outside of Russia. Stylistically, it is more representative of Rimsky-Korsakov's work than the better-known ""The Golden Cockerel"". In its use of Russian history and legend, Oriental exoticism, and a mix of the real and the supernatural, the work has been called a ""summation of the nationalistic operatic tradition of Glinka and"
"is probably Borodin's best-known composition. Borodin left the opera (and a few other works) incomplete at his death. ""Prince Igor"" was completed posthumously by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. It is set in the 12th century, when the Russians, led by Prince Igor of Seversk, set out to conquer the barbarous Polovtsians by travelling Eastward across the Steppes. The Polovtsians were apparently a Nomadic tribe originally of Turkish origin who habitually attacked southern Russia. A full solar eclipse early in the first act foreshadows an ominous outcome to the invasion. Prince Igor's troops are defeated. The story tells of the capture of"
"Doráti and James Gibson. The work has not been performed at the Met since the war, but it was staged at neighboring New York City Opera from 1967 to 1971, always in English, with Beverly Sills singing the Tsaritsa of Shemakha opposite Norman Treigle's Dodon, and Julius Rudel conducting Tito Capobianco's production. On 13 December 1975 the BBC broadcast a live performance in English from the Theatre Royal Glasgow with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Gibson, and with Don Garrard as Tsar Dodon, John Angelo Messana as the Astrologer and Catherine Gayer as the Tsaritsa. The Mariinsky Theatre"
"it, notably Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera ""The Maid of Pskov"" and Tchaikovsky's opera ""The Oprichnik"", both of which were also set in the times of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It also contains typical features such as folk-songs, dances of jesters, chants of monks, and a chorus of praise for the Tsar. Like Rubinstein's earlier opera, ""The Demon"", (1871), it was based on a narrative poem by Lermontov. Nonetheless, ""The Merchant Kalashnikov"" was not a success. It was taken off after its first two performances for political reasons (the climactic execution of Kalashnikov being objected to by Tsar Alexander II). It was"
"The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (, ""Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii"") is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on a combination of two Russian legends: that of St. Fevroniya of Murom, and the city of Kitezh, which became invisible when attacked by the Tatars. The opera was completed in 1905, and the premiere performance took place at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, on February 7,"
"and Mikhail Lentovsky (stage director). Giuseppe Truffi conducted. The cast also included Anton Sekar-Rozhansky (Pretender), Serafima Selyuk-Roznatovskaya (Marina), Varvara Strakhova (Fyodor), and Vasiliy Shkafer (Shuysky). The production ran for 14 performances. 1908, Paris – First performance outside Russia The Rimsky-Korsakov edition of 1908 premiered on 19 May 1908 at the Paris Opéra. The Cell Scene preceded the Coronation Scene, the Inn Scene and the Scene in Marina's Boudoir were omitted, the Fountain Scene preceded the Terem Scene, and the Kromï Scene preceded the Death Scene. Production personnel included Sergey Dyagilev (producer), Aleksandr Sanin (stage director), Aleksandr Golovin, Konstantin Yuon, Aleksandr"
"Sadko (opera) Sadko (, the name of the main character) is an opera in seven scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer, with assistance from Vladimir Belsky, Vladimir Stasov, and others. Rimsky-Korsakov was first inspired by the Bylina of Sadko in 1867, when he completed a tone poem on the subject, his Op. 5. After finishing his second revision of this work in 1891, he decided to turn it into a dramatic work. The music is highly evocative, and Rimsky-Korsakov's famed powers of orchestration are abundantly evident throughout the score. According to the Soviet critic Boris"
"a Russian film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko entitled ""Sadko"" based on the opera and featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's music was released. Tommy Dorsey's 1938 instrumental arrangement of the Song of the Indian Guest is a jazz classic, compiled on ""This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1"". Notes Sources Sadko (opera) Sadko (, the name of the main character) is an opera in seven scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer, with assistance from Vladimir Belsky, Vladimir Stasov, and others. Rimsky-Korsakov was first inspired by the Bylina of Sadko in 1867, when he completed a tone poem"
"Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, a position he held for 22 years. In 1852 and 1853 he sang roles in Anton Rubinstein's first two operas, ""Dmitry Donskoy"" and ""Fomka the Fool"". Hulak-Artemovsky performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 1864 to 1865. He performed over fifty operatic roles during his career, including Ruslan in Glinka's ""Ruslan and Lyudmila"", Masetto in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"", as well as Antonio and Lord Ashton in Donizetti's ""Linda di Chamounix"" and ""Lucia di Lammermoor"". A composer of operas, as well as vocal and instrumental music, Hulak-Artemovsky composed his seminal work ""Zaporozhets za Dunayem"" in 1864,"
"Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) completed ten operas including the most famous Eugene Onegin (""Yevgeny Onegin""), 1877–1878, 1879 Moscow and The Queen of Spades (""Pikovaya dama""), 1890, 1890 Saint Petersburg, which now belong to the world's standard repertoire. His other operas are: Not less important was Aleksandr Borodin’s (1833–1887) Prince Igor – (""Knyaz Igor"", completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov, 1890). Prolific Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) completed fifteen operas, the most significant achievements of the art of opera in Russia at the end of the century. The most notable of them are: The last three of them already belong to the 20th century Russian"
"to the Invisible City. Vsevolod leads his bride to the altar with wedding songs, and a Hymn of Joy, as a solemn chorus, ends the opera. Good, Love and Justice are victorious. Act 1<br> Act 3<br> Act 4<br> Audio Recordings: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (, ""Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii"") is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on a combination of two Russian legends: that"
"the repertory due to difficulty in appreciating his raw and uncompromising idiom. Therefore, Rimsky-Korsakov was justified in making improvements to keep the work alive and increase the public's awareness of Mussorgsky's melodic and dramatic genius. The Rimsky-Korsakov version remained the one usually performed in Russia, even after Mussorgsky's earthier original (1872) gained a place in Western opera houses. The Bolshoy Theatre has only recently embraced the composer's own version. Dmitriy Shostakovich worked on ""Boris Godunov"" in 1939–1940 on a commission from the Bolshoy Theatre for a new production of the opera. A conflation of the 1869 and 1872 versions had"
"instead making the orchestra calmer, more balanced. The American conductor Igor Buketoff created a version in which he removed most of Rimsky-Korsakov's additions and reorchestrations, and fleshed out some other parts of Mussorgsky's original orchestration. This version had its first performance in 1997 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, under Valery Gergiev. Notes Sources Libretto Other Boris Godunov (opera) Boris Godunov (, ""Borís Godunóv"") is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler"
"staged a new production of ""The Golden Cockerel"" on 25 December 2014, with Valery Gergiev as conductor. The stage director and costume designer was Anna Matison. The opera was presented in Russian during the 2015 winter season by the Sarasota Opera conducted by Ekhart Wycik, with set designs by David P. Gordon, and featuring Grigory Soloviov as Tsar Dodon, Alexandra Batsios as the Tsaritsa of Shemakha, Timur Bekbosunov at the Astrologer, and Riley Svatos as the Golden Cockerel. De Munt/La Monnaie staged a new production in Brussels in December 2016. This was a co-production with the Teatro Real of Madrid"
"for ""Mlada"". All of them would be recycled in subsequent projects: After Borodin's death, Rimsky-Korsakov edited and published the Finale from Act 4 as an orchestral concert piece. Mlada (1879), a ballet by Ludwig Minkus A pure ballet adaptation of the scenario was later realized by choreographer Marius Petipa and composer Ludwig Minkus, premiering on December 2, 1879, the year after Gedeonov's death, at the St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre by the Imperial Ballet. A revival of the ballet, mounted by Petipa, was presented on September 25, 1896. Mlada (1890), an opera-ballet by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov In 1889-1890 Rimsky-Korsakov dusted"
"the most of Russian composers. Glinka was followed by Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869) with his Rusalka (1856) and revolutionary The Stone Guest (""Kamenny gost"", completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and premiered in 1872). Other composers were: Russian opera reached its apogee with the works by Modest Mussorgsky and his antipode Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Modest Mussorgsky's (1839–1881) Boris Godunov remains the greatest masterpiece of Russian opera, despite what many consider to be serious technical faults and a bewildering array of versions (Original Version of 1869, Revised Version of 1872, Rimsky-Korsakov Edition of 1908, Shostakovich Edition of 1940, etc.). His other operas were left unfinished: Pyotr"
"Music School under Rimsky-Korsakov's direction. In 1880 he composed the popular symphonic poem ""In the Steppes of Central Asia"". Two years later he began composing a third symphony, but left it unfinished at his death; two movements of it were later completed and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. In 1868 Borodin became distracted from initial work on the second symphony by preoccupation with the opera ""Prince Igor"", which is seen by some to be his most significant work and one of the most important historical Russian operas. It contains the ""Polovtsian Dances"", often performed as a stand-alone concert work forming what"
"and the Mariinsky in Saint Petersburg remain famous throughout the world. The first known opera made in Russia was ""A Life for the Tsar"" by Mikhail Glinka in 1836. This was followed by several operas such as ""Ruslan and Lyudmila"" in 1842. Russian opera was originally a combination of Russian folk music and Italian opera. After the October revolution many opera composers left Russia. Russia's most popular operas include ""Boris Godunov"", ""Eugene Onegin"", ""The Golden Cockerel"", ""Prince Igor"", and ""The Queen of Spades"". Since the late Soviet times Russia has experienced another wave of Western cultural influence, which led to"
"appeared in the Russian Season directed by Sir Thomas Beecham at London's Lyceum Theatre. His most famous part was the title role of ""Boris Godunov"" (excerpts of which he recorded 1929–31 and earlier). He is remembered also for his interpretations of Ivan the Terrible in Rimsky-Korsakov's ""The Maid of Pskov"", Mephistopheles in Gounod's ""Faust"", Don Quixote in Massenet's ""Don Quichotte"", King Philip in Verdi's ""Don Carlos"" and Bertram in Meyerbeer's ""Robert le Diable"". Largely owing to his advocacy, Russian operas such as Mussorgsky's ""Boris Godunov"" and ""Khovanshchina"", Glinka's ""Ivan Susanin"", Borodin's ""Prince Igor"" and Rimsky-Korsakov's ""The Tsar's Bride"" and ""Sadko"","