In the opening of the second act of this work, a nurse sings a song about a gnat while the children whom she oversees examine a map.
In the opening of the second act of this work, a nurse sings a song about a gnat while the children whom she oversees examine a map. This work closes as a simpleton exclaims "Flow, Flow bitter tears," and sees the Jesuit Rangoni implore one character to convert the heretics. Another character in this opera narrates a story of his achievements as a soldier at a battle in the town of Kazan while staying at an inn on the border, and that character, (*) Varlaam, soon learns that he has been traveling with a renegade monk who fled from his master Pimen. The title character gives his last advice in "Farewell, my son, I am dying," and the chorus praises him during the earlier coronation scene, but after his death Grigori returns to the capital under the guise of Dimitri. FTP, name this opera about the last Tsar before the Time of Troubles, by Modest Mussorgsky.
In the opening of the second act of this work, a nurse sings a song about a gnat while the children whom she oversees examine a map.
{Boris Godunov}