• Russian opera (Russian: Ру́сская о́пера Rússkaya ópera) is the art of opera in Russia. Operas by composers of Russian origin, written or staged outside...
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    Russian-language opera was supported by the Russian composers Vasily Pashkevich, Yevstigney Fomin and Alexey Verstovsky. However, the real birth of Russian opera came...
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    This is a list of opera singers from Russian Federation, Soviet Union and Russian Empire including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities...
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    The Private Opera (Russian: Частная Опера), also known as: The Russian Private Opera (Русская Частная Опера); Moscow Private Russian Opera, (Московская...
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    Mozart and Salieri (Russian: Моцарт и Сальери, romanized: Motsart i Salyeri listen) is a one-act opera in two scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written...
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    Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov...
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    Anna Netrebko (category 20th-century Russian women opera singers)
    Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко; born 18 September 1971) is a Russian and Austrian operatic soprano who has performed at the Salzburg...
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  • Pozdravlyayem! (Russian: «Поздравляем!» Congratulations!, Op. 111) is a 1975 opera by Mieczysław Weinberg to his own Russian libretto after the Yiddish...
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  • origins of opera in late 16th century Italy, a central repertoire has developed, shepherded by major opera composers. The earliest major opera composer...
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    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (category Russian male opera composers)
    chy-KOF-skee; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting...
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    Mariinsky Theatre (Russian: Мариинский театр, romanized: Mariinskiy teatr, also transcribed as Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic opera house in Saint...
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    Ruslan and Lyudmila (Russian: Руслан и Людмила, romanized: Ruslán i Lyudmíla listen) is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka...
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    of Spades or Pique Dame, Op. 68 (Russian: Пиковая дама, Pikovaya dama listen, French: La Dame de Pique) is an opera in three acts (seven scenes) by Pyotr...
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    Op. 29 (Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда, romanized: Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda, lit. 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District') is an opera in four...
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    (Russian: Большо́й теа́тр, romanized: Bol'shoy teatr, IPA: [bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈat(ə)r], lit. 'Grand Theater') is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally...
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    The Nose, Op. 15, (Russian: Нос, romanized: Nos is Dmitri Shostakovich's first opera, a satirical work completed in 1928 based on Nikolai Gogol's 1836...
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    Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, romanized: Knyaz Igor, listen) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin....
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    Alexander Borodin (category Russian opera composers)
    Georgian-Russian extraction. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a "uniquely Russian" kind...
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    César Cui (category Russian male opera composers)
    combined by the idea of creating a specifically Russian type of music. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, he rose to the rank of Engineer-General...
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  • list provides a guide to opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the "Lists...
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    the Russian Opera. The day of the first performance, November 8 (October 27 old style), 1867 was made a city holiday. The performance of the opera Askold's...
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    Vitas (redirect from Russian super singer)
    Vladasovych Grachov, known professionally as Vitas (Russian: Витас [ˈvʲitəs]; stylised in all caps), is a Russian singer. Vitas is known for his falsetto and...
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    Reinhold Glière (category Russian male opera composers)
    Glière (Russian: Рейнгольд Морицевич Глиэр; 11 January 1875 [O.S. 30 December 1874] – 23 June 1956), born Reinhold Ernest Glier, was a Russian and Soviet...
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  • composition considered opera, as understood today, although with only five instrumental parts it was much more like a chamber opera than either the preceding...
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    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (category Russian male opera composers)
    composition and teaching with a career in the Russian armed forces—first as an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, then as the civilian Inspector of Naval...
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    singspiel, Viennese operetta, Spanish zarzuela, Russian comic opera, English ballad and Savoy opera, North American operetta and musical comedy. In late...
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    Mikhail Glinka (category Russian male opera composers)
    February] 1857) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music...
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    entirely plastic. London Opera Glass Company Monocular Spotting scope Opera Opera hat Opera cloak Opera gloves "How to Choose Opera Glasses". Archived from...
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    was prepared: for example, Chaliapin steak, made by the order of the Russian opera singer Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin in 1934 in Japan; After the inventor...
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  • The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer...
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