Not Love Alone

Not Love Alone (also translated Not for Love Alone or Not Only Love; Не только любовь) is the first opera of Rodion Shchedrin, written 1961, revised in 1971.

Irina Arkhipova created the role of Varvara, and recorded Varvara's aria on her Arias recital for Melodiya 1967.

A well-known piece from this opera (usually played by cello and piano) is the humorous Quadrille from the second Act (Scene 15: The arrival of Varvara Vasilyevna and quadrille).