The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov)

The Tale of Tsar Saltan (?????? ? ???? ??????? in Russian, Skazka o Tsarie Saltanie in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to a Russian libretto by Vladimir Ivanovich Belsky, based on the poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. Its full title is: "The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Guidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Swan Princess". The opera was composed in 1899-1900, and first performed at the Solodovnikov Theater, Moscow, 1900.

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Russian - Transliteration - Opera - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Libretto - Vladimir Ivanovich Belsky - Poem - The same name - Aleksandr Pushkin - Bogatyr - Solodovnikov Theater - Moscow - 1900

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The Tale of Tsar Saltan is not part of the standard operatic repertoire. It is rarely performed, but "The Flight of the Bumblebee", the opera's most famous interlude, is heard regularly on the concert stage. There is also a 3-movement suite of the same name, first published in 1904 as Opus 57, containing the introductions to Acts 1,3 and 4, scene2.

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Standard operatic repertoire - The Flight of the Bumblebee

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