Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230534572
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)
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Download or read book Operas Based on Pushkin Works written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Boris Godunov, The Golden Cockerel, Mazeppa, The Queen of Spades, Eugene Onegin, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Ruslan and Lyudmila, The Captain's Daughter, Prisoner of the Caucasus, Aleko, Mozart and Salieri, The Miserly Knight, The Stone Guest, Dubrovsky, Feast in Time of Plague, Rusalka. Excerpt: Boris Godunov (Russian: , original orthography, Boris Godunov) 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 Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar (1598 to 1605) during the Time of Troubles, and his nemesis, the False Dmitriy (reigned 1605 to 1606). The Russian-language libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the "dramatic chronicle" Boris Godunov by Aleksandr Pushkin, and, in the Revised Version of 1872, on Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State. Boris Godunov, among major operas, shares with Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos (1867) the distinction of having the most complex creative history and the greatest wealth of alternative material. The composer created two versions-the Original Version of 1869, which was rejected for production by the Imperial Theatres, and the Revised Version of 1872, which received its first performance in 1874 in Saint Petersburg. These versions constitute two distinct ideological conceptions, not two variations of a single plan. Boris Godunov has seldom been performed in either of the two forms left by the composer, frequently being subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, conflation of the original and revised versions, or translation into another language. Several composers, chief among them Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Dmitri...