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The opera company specializes in the classics of Russian opera such as Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov", Glinka's "A Life for the Tsar", and Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tsar's Bride", as well as the operas of Tchaikovsky. Many operas by western composers are also performed, especially works of Italian composers such as Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini. Until the mid-1990s, most foreign operas were sung in Russian, but Italian and other languages have been heard more frequently on the Bolshoi stage in recent years.