| Composer: |
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Music title: |
Sadko (1897) |
| Librettist: |
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Librettist: |
Vladimir Vasil'yevich Stasov |
| Librettist: |
Vasily Yastrebtsev |
| Librettist: |
Nikolay Shtrup |
| Librettist: |
Nikolay Findeyzen |
| Librettist: |
Vladimir Nikolayevich Bel'sky |
| Work definition: |
Opera-bïlina in three or five acts |
| Based on: |
Based on the ballad 'Sadko, bogatïy gost' ('Sadko, the Rich Trader') and other old ballads and tales. |
| Language: |
Russian |
| Notes: |
'Opera-bïlina' means 'operatically treated heroic ballad'. The work is in seven scenes, which can be grouped as 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5-7 or 1, 2 and 3, 4, 5 and 6, 7. The libretto was compiled by Rimsky Korsakov from the bïlina 'Sadko, bogatïy gost' ('Sadko, the Rich Trader') and other ancient ballads and tales with the assistance of Vladimir Vasil'yevich Stasov, Vasily Yastrebtsev, Nikolay Shtrup, Nikolay Findeyzen and Vladimir Nikolayevich Bel'sky. (Grove Dictionary of Opera)
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| World premiere: |
26 December 1897, Savva Mamontov's Private Russian Opera, Solodovnikov Theatre, Moscow |