The Decembrists (opera)
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The Decembrists is an historical opera by Yuri Shaporin with libretto by Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky, Aleksey Tolstoy and others. It was premiered in 1953 after a long and difficult period of composition
Nina Pokrovskaya as Yelena Orlova, and Grigory Bolshakov as Shchepin-Rostov (1963)
Prince Igor
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Prince Igor is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin.
Title page of the published score. The text reads: "Prince Igor, opera in 4 acts with a prologue, words and music by A.P. Borodin, subject adapted from The Lay of Igor's Host."
Alexander Borodin
Vladimir Stasov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov