Opera

Ruslan and Lyudmila

Mikhail Glinka ’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila was staged at the Mariinsky Theatre and Bolshoi Theatre in sets designed by Konstantin Korovin and Alexander Golovin. In 1913, Ivan Bilibin designed the se...

Sadko

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Sadko was inspired by the bylina of Sadko and premiered at Savva Mamontov’s Russian Private Opera in Moscow on 26 December 1897. The sets were designed by Konstantin K...

Till Eulenspiegel

Isaac Rabinovich designed the sets and costumes for a production of Till Eulenspiegel at the Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre of Music in 1931. The artist audaciously reconstructed the architect...

Tiefland

In 1918 and 1919, Alexander Lappo-Danilevsky designed the sets for a performance of Eugen Francis Charles d’Albert’s opera Tiefland at the Theatre of Musical Drama in Petrograd. The opera was directe...

Victory Over the Sun

On 6 February 1920, Kazimir Malevich and the students of the Vitebsk School of Art restaged Victory Over the Sun. Mounted at the Latvian Club, the opera opened the “Front Week” organised by the local...

The Stone Guest

In 1917, Alexander Golovin and Vsyevolod Meyerhold returned to the legend of Don Juan, collaborating on a production of Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s opera The Stone Guest. Russian theatre critic Ivan Sol...

The Snow Maiden

The traditional Russian folk tale of the Snow Maiden ( Snegurochka ) was turned into a play by Alexander Ostrovsky and first staged in 1873. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera of the same name o...

Götterdämmerung

Richard Wagner’s opera Götterdämmerung, the concluding work in his stage festival play Der Ring des Nibelungen, was premiered in Russia at the Mariinsky Theatre in November 1902. Wagner wrote the lib...

Prince Igor

Nicholas Roerich first worked on Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor in 1909, when Sergei Diaghilev included individual pieces from the opera in his Saisons Russes in Paris. Diaghilev took a full perform...

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