Russian Opera

Volume AE206 in the Audio Encyclopedia is an overview of Russian opera. We have chosen to concentrate on the mainstream works in this release and to provide a multidimensional perspective to the extent we could on a single disc. Thus, all performances except Pikovaya Dama are from the Bolshoi so that one can gather insight into its evolution in the Soviet era and contrast it with one modern production from the Kirov.

Title   Year   Conductor   Cast  
Aleko   1951  Golovanov   Petrov, Pokrovskaya, Orfenov  
Boris Godunov   1948  Golovanov   Reizen, Nelepp, Khanayev, Kozlovsky  
Boris Godunov   1963  Melik-Pashayev   London, Ivanovsky, Shulpin, Grigoriev  
Boris Godunov   1975  Simonov   Nesterenko, Atlantov, Sokolov, Maslennikov  
The Decembrists   1953  Melik-Pashayev   Ivanov, Pirogov, Petrov  
Dubrovsky   1954  Nebolsin   Kozlovsky, Ivanov, Verbitskaya  
Eugene Onegin   1975  Mansurov   Matzurok, Milashkina, Atlantov  
Ivan Susanin     Melik-Pashayev   Mikhailov, Shpiller, Nelepp  
Kamenny Gost     Khaikin   Maslennikov, Pankov, Vishnevskaya  
Khovanshchina   1946  Khaikin   Reizen, Preobrazhenskaya, Freidkov  
Pikovaya Dama   1975  Simonov   Atlantov, Milashkina  
Pikovaya Dama   1991  Gergiev
Kirov Opera  		 Steblyanko, Shevchenko  
Prince Igor   1952  Melik-Pashayev   Ivanov, Smolenskaya, Lemeshev, Reizen  
Ruslan y Ludmila   1937  Samosud   Barsova, Reizen  
Ruslan y Ludmila   1956  Kondrashin   Firsova, Petrov  
Sadko   1953  Golovanov   Nelepp, Davidova  
Snegurochka   1957  Svetlanov   Firsova, Kozlovsky  
War and Peace   1961  Melik-Pashayev   Kibkalo, Vishnevskaya, Shchegolkov  

NOTE: Due to an error on the disc in the Ruslan y Lyudmila playback, Acts III, IV and V refer to the wrong performances; the 1937 plays when the 1956 is selected and vice versa.

A more extensive cast list is provided here.

This CD-ROM is available from the distributor, http://www.operamogul.com/ and from some dealers.

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