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Opera was brought to Russia in the 1730s by the Italian operatic troupes and soon it became an important part of entertainment for the Russian Imperial Court and aristocracy. Many foreign composers such as Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Paisiello, Giuseppe Sarti, Domenico Cimarosa, etc. were invited to Russia to compose new operas mostly in Italian language. Simultaneously some domestic musicians like Maksym Berezovsky and Dmytro Bortniansky were sent abroad to learn to write operas. The first opera written in Russian was Tsefal i Prokris by the Italian composer Francesco Araja (1755). The development of Russian-language opera was supported by the Russian composers like Vasily Pashkevich, Yevstigney Fomin and Alexey Verstovsky.

However a real birth of Russian opera was connected with Mikhail Glinka and his two great operas A Life for the Tsar, (1836) and Ruslan and Lyudmila (1842). After him in the 19th century in Russia there were written such operatic masterpieces as Rusalka and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by  Alezander Borodin, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, The Snow Maiden and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and so on. These developments mirrored the growth of Russian nationalism across the artistic spectrum, in part as a function of the more general Slavophilism movement.

In the 20th century genre of opera was developed by many Russian composers including Sergei Rachmaninov (The Miserly Knight, and Franchesca da Rimini), Igor Stravinsky (Le rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress), Sergei Prokofiev (The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace), Dmitri Shostakovich (The Nose, and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District), Edison Denisov L'écume des jours, Alfred Schnittke (Life With an Idiot, and Historia von D. Johann Fausten) and so on.

Notable Russian Opera Composers
This is a list of notable opera composers.


 * Alexander Borodin
 * Mikhail Glinka
 * Modest Mussorgsky
 * Sergei Prokofiev
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * Igor Stravinsky
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian Opera
Maksym Berezovsky Ukrainian-Russian (1745-1777):
 * Demofonte (February 1773, Livorno, Italy, in Italian - to the libretto by Pietro Metastasio)

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887):
 * Prince Igor - ''(Knyaz Igor)'

Dmitri Bortnyansky Ukrainian-Russian (1751-1825):
 * Creonte (1776 Venice)
 * Alcide (1778 Venice)
 * Quinto Fabio (1779 Modena)
 * Le Faucon (1786 St Petersburg in French, with libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière)
 * Le Fete du Seigneur (1786 St Petersburg in French, with libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière)
 * Don Carlos (Bortnyansky) (1786 St Petersburg in French, with libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière)
 * Le Fils-Rival ou La Moderne Stratonice (1787 St Petersburg in French, with libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière)

César Cui (1835-1918):
 * Angelo
 * The Captain's Daughter
 * Feast in Time of Plague - (Pir vo vremya chumy)
 * Le Flibustier
 * Ivan the Fool - (Ivan-Durak)
 * Little Red Riding Hood - (Krasnaya shapochka)
 * Mademoiselle Fifi
 * The Mandarin's Son
 * Mateo Falcone
 * Prisoner of the Caucasus - (Kavkazskiy plennik)
 * Puss in Boots - (Kot v sapogakh)
 * The Saracen
 * The Snow-Bogatyr
 * William Ratcliff

César Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin:
 * Mlada

Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869):
 * Rusalka,
 * The Stone Guest - (Kammeny Gost)

Edison Denisov (1929-1996):
 * Soldier Ivan - (Ivan-Soldat)
 * L'écume des jours
 * Quatre Filles

Elena Firsova (b.1950):
 * A Feast in Time of Plague - (Pir vo vremya chumy)
 * The Nightingale and the Rose

Evstigney Ipatovich Fomin (1761 - 1800)
 * The Coachmen (Ямщики на подставе - Yamshchiki na podstave) (1787)
 * Soirees (Вечеринки - Vecherinki)'' (1788)
 * ''Orfey i Evridika(1792)
 * Americans (Американцы - Amerikantsy) comic opera (1800)
 * The Golden Apple (Золотое яблоко - Zolotoye yabloko)'' (perf. 1803)

Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857):
 * A Life for the Tsar - (Zhizn za tsarya)
 * Ruslan and Lyudmila - (Ruslan i Lyudmila)

Nikolai Karetnikov (1930-1994):
 * Till Eulenspiegel, opera in two acts (1965-1985)
 * The Mystery of Apostle Paul, opera-oratorio in 10 acts (1970-1986) First performance on 4 August 1995 in Hannover.

Alexander Knayfel (b.1943):
 * The Canterville Ghost - (Kentervil'skoye prividenie)
 * Alice in Wonderland (opera)

Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001):
 * MR (Marina and Rainer) (1989). Chamber opera in one act..

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881):
 * Boris Godunov
 * The Fair at Sorochintsï - (Sorochinskaya Yarmarka)
 * Khovanshchina

Vasily Pashkevich (1742-1797):
 * The Carriage Accident - (Несчастье от кареты - Neschastye ot karety1772? (1779)?
 * St Petersburg bazar - (Sankt Peterburgskiy Gostinyi Dvor) (1782) ?
 * The burden is not heavy if it is yours Своя ноша не тянет - Svoya nosha ne tyanet (1794)
 * Two Antons Два Антона - Dva Antona (1804)?
 * Miser - Скупой - Skupoy (1782)? (1811)?
 * Fevey (1786)? (to the libretto by Catherine II)
 * The Early Reign of Oleg(written with Giuseppe Sarti and the Milanese musician Cannobio)
 * Fedul and his Children (written with Martini y Soler)
 * The Pasha of Tunis (to the libretto by Matinsky)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953):
 * Betrothal in a Monastery - (The Duenna) - (Obrucheniye v monastyre)
 * The Fiery Angel - (Ognenniy angel)
 * The Gambler - (Igrok) (After Dostoevsky)
 * The Love for Three Oranges - (Lyubov k tryom apelsinam)
 * Semyon Kotko
 * The Story of a Real Man - (Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveeke)
 * War and Peace (Voyna i mir)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943):
 * Aleko
 * Francesca da Rimini
 * The Miserly Knight (Skupoy rytsar)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908):
 * The Golden Cockerel (Zolotoy petushok),
 * Kashchey the Deathless (Kashchey bessmertnïy)
 * The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya - (Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii)
 * The Maid of Pskov (Pskovityanka)
 * May Night (Mayskaya noch')
 * Mozart and Salieri (Motsart i Sal'yeri)
 * The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga (Boyarïnya Vera Sheloga)
 * Pan Voyevoda
 * Sadko
 * Servilia (Serviliya)
 * The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka)
 * The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Satane)
 * The Tsar's Bride (Tsarskaya nevesta)

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894):
 * Demon

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998):
 * Life with an Idiot,
 * Historia von D. Johann Fausten
 * Gesualdo

Alexander Serov (1820-1871):
 * Judith
 * Rogneda
 * The Power of the Fiend

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975):
 * The Gamblers (Igroki)
 * Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - (Ledy Macbeth Mtsenskovo uyezda)
 * Moskva, Cheryomushki
 * The Nose - (Nos)

Dmitri Smirnov (b.1948):
 * Tiriel
 * The Lamentations of Thel

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971):
 * The Flood - (Potop)
 * L'histoire du soldat - (Istoria Soldata)
 * Mavra, The Nightingale - (Solovei)
 * Oedipus rex
 * Perséphone
 * The Rake's Progress
 * Renard - (Bayka pro Lisu, Petukha, Kota da Barana)
 * The Wedding - (Svadebka)

Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915):
 * Oresteia

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893):
 * Cherevichki, Iolanta
 * The Maid of Orleans - (Orleanskaya deva)
 * Mazeppa
 * The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) - (Pikovaya dama)
 * Eugene Onegin

Alexey Verstovsky (1799-1862):
 * Askold's Grave - (Askol'dova mogila)

Other republics:

Georgia

Zakharia Paliashvili (Georgia)(1871-1933):
 * Absalom and Eteri
 * Daisi
 * ''Latavra