A Life for the Tsar
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A Life for the Tsar is a "patriotic-heroic tragic" opera in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. During the Soviet era the opera was known under the name Ivan Susanin, due to the anti-monarch
Osip Petrov as Ivan Susanin in the premiere
Set design for the epilogue
Feodor Chaliapin as Ivan Susanin
Chaliapin F. 1900х as Ivan Susanin in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar
The Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre was a theatre in Saint Petersburg.
A Life for the Tsar
…by Nestor Kukolnik, Egor Fyodorovich (von) Rozen, Vladimir Sollogub and Vasily Zhukovsky. It premiered on 27 November 1836 OS (9 December NS) at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The historical basis of the plot involves Ivan Susanin, a patriotic hero of the early 17th century who died in the expulsion of…
Theatre Square in 1806, by Benjamin Patersen.