page_title: Rogneda (opera)
section_title: Synopsis
hierarchical_section_title: Rogneda (opera) / Synopsis
context_page_description: Rogneda is an opera in five acts, composed by Alexander Serov between 1863 and 1865. The scenario, by the composer, was based on the novel Askold's Grave by Mikhail Zagoskin and the poem Rogneda by Kondraty Ryleyev. The actual Russian libretto was created by Dmitry Averkiev in the same manner as with the composer's previous opera, Judith, with the words written to fit the vocal lines after the music had been composed.
  This opera forms a sequel of sorts to Alexey Verstovsky's highly successful singspiel, Askold's Grave, which premiered in 1835, just the year before Glinka's A Life for the Tsar reached the stage. No less a patriotic opera than those two, Rogneda in its plot combines elements of the life of the title character with the Christianization of Russia, dated in 988 with the conversion of Vladimir I of Kiev. With its huge cast and sprawling plot, the opera demands spectacle of a Meyerbeerian order.
context_section_description: Time: The end of the 10th century
  Place: In and around Kiev
  Note: Acts 1 and 5 may contain more than one set of stage decor
caption: Vladimir and Rogneda by Anton Losenko (1770).
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