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Cherevichki
Sign in to saveCherevichki ( , ), 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.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Cherevichki
- Opera.type
- Revision of Vakula the Smith
- Opera.composer
- Tchaikovsky
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- 1.2
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- Tchaikovsky by Reutlinger.jpg
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- Tchaikovsky in 1888
- Opera.librettist
- Yakov Polonsky
- Opera.language
- Russian
- Opera.premiere_location
- Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
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- Composition history
- Performance history
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- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Structure
- Related works
- Recordings
- See also
- References
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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.
==Composition history== thumb|upright|Nikolai Gogol|Nikolay Gogol(1809–1852) The opera was composed between February and April 1885 at Maidanovo. Both Vakula the Smith and Cherevichki were set to Polonsky's libretto, which was originally intended for Alexander Serov, but had remained unused on account of his death. Additions and revisions for this second version were made by the composer and Nikolay Chayev.