Ruslan and Lyudmila

Ruslan and Lyudmila (?????? ? ??????? in Russian, Ruslan i Lyudmila in transliteration) is an opera in five acts by Mikhail Glinka to a Russian libretto by Valerian Fyodorovich Shirkov and Nestor Kukolnik, based on a poem by Aleksandr Pushkin. It was first performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Saint Petersburg on 9 December, 1842.

Noted arias (English title)

• "Oh field, who has bestrewn thee with dead bones?" (Russlan)
• "Sultry heat has supplanted shade of night" (Ratmir)
• "Far from my beloved and constrained" (Chernomor)