Khovanshchina
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Khovanshchina is an opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was almost finished in piano score when the composer died in 1881, but the orchestration was almost entirely lacking.
Scene design by Apollinariy Vasnetsov for the Russian Private Opera, Moscow, 1897), showing the Red Square
Autograph vocal score of Khovanshchina, featuring "Dawn on the Moscow River" (1874)
Affiche for a performance at the Solodovnikov Theatre (Moscow, 1897)
Fyodor Shalyapin as Dosifey (Russian Private Opera (Mamontov's Private Russian Opera in Moscow), Moscow, 1897)
Risë Stevens
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Risë Stevens was an American operatic mezzo-soprano and actress. Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s and 1950s. She was most noted for her portrayals of the central character in Carmen by Georges Bizet. From 1963 to 1968 she was director of the Metropolitan Opera National Company.
Stevens as Carmen in an advertisement for Pacquins Hand Cream, Ladies' Home Journal, March 1948