page_title: The Tsar's Bride (opera)
section_title: Recordings
hierarchical_section_title: The Tsar's Bride (opera) / Recordings
caption_attribution_description: THE CHAMBERS IN THE TSAR'S TOWER. Stage-set design for Act Four of the opera "The Tsar's Bride" by Rimsky-Korsakov. 1930
context_page_description: The Tsar's Bride is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer's tenth opera. The libretto, by Ilia Tyumenev, is based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey. Mey's play was first suggested to the composer as an opera subject in 1868 by Mily Balakirev. However, the opera was not composed until thirty years later, in 1898. The first performance of the opera took place in 1899 at the Moscow theater of the Private Opera of S.I. Mamontov.
  Rimsky-Korsakov himself said of the opera that he intended it as a reaction against the ideas of Richard Wagner, and to be in the style of "cantilena par excellence".
  The Tsar's Bride is a repertory opera in Russia, although it is not part of the standard operatic repertoire in the West.
context_section_description: Audio
  1943: Natalya Shpiller, Maxim Mikhailov, Piotr Medtviediev, Anatoly Lioubimov, Anatoly Orfionov, Maria Maksakova, Vassily Yakouchenko, Sofya Panova, Varvara Gagarina, Maria Levina, Bronislav Zielezinsky; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre; Lev Steinberg, conductor (1943 recording) Dante Productions LYS 055/56:
  1958: Sobakin — Alexandr Vedernikov, Marfa — Yelizaveta Shumskaya, Gryaznoy — Alexey Ivanov, Lïkov — Andrey Sokolov, Lyubasha — Veronika Borisenko, Saburova — Tatyana Tugarinova, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre; Yevgeny Svetlanov, conductor
  1975: Galina Vishnevskaya, Irina Arkhipova, Vladimir Valaitis, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Andrei Sokolov, Vladimir Atlantov; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre; Fuat Mansurov, conductor.
  1991: Ekatarina Kudriavchenko, Nina Terentieva, Arkady Mishenskin, Vladislav Verestnikov; Sveshnikov Academic Russian Choir; Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre; Andrey Chistiakov, conductor
  1998: Marina Shaguch, Olga Borodina, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Evgeny Akimov, Sergei Alexashkin, Nikolai Gassiev, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Irina Loskutova, Olga Markova-Mikhailenko, Lyubov Sokolova, Yuri Shkliar, Lyudmila Kasjanenko, Viktor Vikbrov; Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre; Valery Gergiev, conductor. Philips 462 618-2:
  Video
  1983: Lydia Kovaleva (Marfa), Yuri Grigoriev (Grigory Gryaznoy), Boris Morozov (Malyuta Skuratov), Evgeny Shapin (Ivan Sergeyevich Likov), Nina Terentieva (Lyubasha), Konstantin Pustovoi (Yelisey Bomelius), Larissa Yurchenko (Domna Ivanovna Saburova), Marina Shutova (Dunyasha), Nina Grigorieva (Petrovna). Orchestra and Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, conductor Yuri Simonov.
caption: A 1930 stage design by Ivan Bilibin
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