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Nikolai Gogol’s comedy The Government Inspector premiered at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in 1836. In 1920, Isaac Rabinovich designed the sets and costumes designs for a a production planned by director...
The last play written by Velimir Khlebnikov before his death in 1922, Zangezi was an ecstatic drama written partly in the invented languages of the gods and birds. Vladimir Tatlin was the director, d...
The Russian folk drama King Maxemian and his Disobedient Son Adolf (in other versions, King Maximilian ) was extremely popular in the 1910s. There were hundreds of different variants of the play, whi...
On 6 February 1920, Kazimir Malevich and the students of the Vitebsk School of Art restaged Victory Over the Sun. Mounted at the Latvian Club, the opera opened the “Front Week” organised by the local...
In 1917, Alexander Golovin and Vsyevolod Meyerhold returned to the legend of Don Juan, collaborating on a production of Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s opera The Stone Guest. Russian theatre critic Ivan Sol...
Alexander Griboyedov ’s play Woe From Wit was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in St Petersburg on 26 January 1831. In 1902, the Museum of History in Moscow acquired the manuscript of the play. That ...
The traditional Russian folk tale of the Snow Maiden ( Snegurochka ) was turned into a play by Alexander Ostrovsky and first staged in 1873. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera of the same name o...
Richard Wagner’s opera Götterdämmerung, the concluding work in his stage festival play Der Ring des Nibelungen, was premiered in Russia at the Mariinsky Theatre in November 1902. Wagner wrote the lib...
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai is a choreographic poem set to the music of Boris Asafiev. Based on the poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, the ballet was premiered at the Kirov Theatre of Opera...
Nicholas Roerich first worked on Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor in 1909, when Sergei Diaghilev included individual pieces from the opera in his Saisons Russes in Paris. Diaghilev took a full perform...