Russian opera (Russian: Ру́сская о́пера Rússkaya ópera) is the art of opera in Russia. Operas by composers of Russian origin, written or staged outside...

Russian-language opera was supported by the Russian composers Vasily Pashkevich, Yevstigney Fomin and Alexey Verstovsky. However, the real birth of Russian opera came...

This is a list of opera singers from Russian Federation, Soviet Union and Russian Empire including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities...

The Private Opera (Russian: Частная Опера), also known as: The Russian Private Opera (Русская Частная Опера); Moscow Private Russian Opera, (Московская...

Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov...

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...

Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко; born 18 September 1971) is a Russian and Austrian operatic soprano who has performed at the Salzburg...

Pozdravlyayem! (Russian: «Поздравляем!» Congratulations!, Op. 111) is a 1975 opera by Mieczysław Weinberg to his own Russian libretto after the Yiddish...

origins of opera in late 16th century Italy, a central repertoire has developed, shepherded by major opera composers. The earliest major opera composer...

Mariinsky Theatre (Russian: Мариинский театр, romanized: Mariinskiy teatr, also transcribed as Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic opera house in Saint...

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...

so-called Russian "magical opera". Aleksandr Dargomizhski, a friend of Glinka's, was similarly committed to creating a national opera grounded in Russian folklore...

Ruslan and Lyudmila (Russian: Руслан и Людмила, romanized: Ruslán i Lyudmíla listen) is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka...

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...

Op. 29 (Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда, romanized: Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda, lit. 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District') is an opera in four...

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...

(Russian: Большо́й теа́тр, romanized: Bol'shoy teatr, IPA: [bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈat(ə)r], lit. 'Grand Theater') is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally...

Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, romanized: Knyaz Igor, listen) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued...

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...

arts and sciences, which had a profound impact on Russian culture. During this time, the first Russian university was founded, a library, a theatre, a public...

entirely plastic. London Opera Glass Company Monocular Spotting scope Opera Opera hat Opera cloak Opera gloves "How to Choose Opera Glasses". Archived from...

composition considered opera, as understood today, although with only five instrumental parts it was much more like a chamber opera than either the preceding...

singspiel, Viennese operetta, Spanish zarzuela, Russian comic opera, English ballad and Savoy opera, North American operetta and musical comedy. In late...

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...

plan: not let Christine sing during a performance of the (fictional) Russian opera Le prince masqué du Caucase ("The Masked Prince of the Caucasus") to...