Rimsky-korsakov: Mozart & Salieri / Noblewoman

Rimsky Korsakov: Mozart & Salieri, Op. 48 Recorded in 1986 Alexander Fedin (Mozart) & Evgeny Nesterenko (Salieri) Boyarinya Vera Sheloga Recorded in 1985 Vladimir Karimov (Boyar Ivan Semyonovich Sheloga), Tamara Milashkina (Vera Dmitriyevna), Vladimir Karimov (Prince Yuri Ivanovich Tokmakov), Nina Grigorieva (Vlasyevna)

Melodiya presents an album of two rare operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga and Mozart and Salieri, both one-act operas and both written in the second half of the 1890s. Mozart and Salieri continued a peculiar tradition begun by Alexander Dargomyzhsky in The Stone Guest, a musical incarnation of Pushkin’s Little Tragedies. The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga emerged as an addition (prologue) to the composer’s The Maid of Pskov that he worked on in those years. Both operas were recorded in 1986 by the company and leading soloists of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre led Mark Ermler

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