Russian-language operas

opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

opera by Modest Mussorgsky

opera by Alexander Borodin

opera by Dmity Shostakovich

Khovanshchina (, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was almost finished in piano score when the composer died in 1881, but the orchestration was almost entirely lacking.

satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Mikhail Glinka

opera by Glinka

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Iolanta, Op. 69, ( ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play '' (King René's Daughter'') by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated Gilbert and Sullivan operetta of that name. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 i

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Dmitri Shostakovich

opera by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Nikolaj Rimski-Korsakov

Cherevichki ( , ), The Slippers is a comic-fantastic opera in 4 acts, 8 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed in 1885 in Maidanovo, near Klin, Russia. The libretto was written by Yakov Polonsky, and is based on the story "Christmas Eve", part of the 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, by Nikolai Gogol. The opera is a revision of Tchaikovsky's earlier opera Vakula the Smith. The work was first performed in 1887 in Moscow.

opera by Nikolaj Rimski-Korsakov

opera by Tchaikovsky

Opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky

opera by Igor Stravinsky

opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky

opera by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Anton Rubinstein

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Modest Mussorgsky

opera by Tchaikovsky

Mavra () is a one-act comic opera composed by Igor Stravinsky, and one of the earliest works of Stravinsky's neo-classical period. The libretto, by Boris Kochno, is based on Alexander Pushkin's The Little House in Kolomna. Mavra is about 25 minutes long, and features two arias, a duet, and a quartet performed by its cast of four characters. The opera has been characterised as both an homage to Russian writers, and a satire of bourgeois manners and the Romeo and Juliet subgenre of romance. Philip Truman has also described the music as satirising 19th-century comic opera. The dedication on the s

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

1874 opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

opera by Mikhail Matyushin

opera in four acts by Tchaikovsky

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Alfred Schnittke

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Stravinsky

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Modest Mussorgsky

rock opera by Alexey Rybnikov and Andrei Voznesensky

Opera by Tchaikovsky

opera by César Cui

unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich

opera by Mieczysław Weinberg

operetta by Dmitri Shostakovich, opus 105, premiered 1959

opera by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky

opera by Alexander Serov

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Rimsky-Korsakov 1890

opera by Alexander Serov