Key facts
- Native title
- Russian : Князь Игорь , romanized : Knyaz' Igor'
- Librettist
- Borodin
- Language
- Russian
- Based on
- The Lay of Igor's Host
- Premiere
- 4 November 1890 ( 1890-11-04 ) , Mariinsky Theatre , Saint Petersburg
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- Polovtsian Dances
- Based on
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign
- Composer
- Alexander Borodin
- Duration
- 3
- Librettist
- Vladimir Stasov
- Image
- Score Prince Igor.jpg
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- title
- Князь Игорь
- Commons category
- Prince Igor
- date of first performance
- 1890-00-00
- number of parts of this work
- 1
- language of work or name
- Russian
- location of first performance
- Mariinsky Theatre
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- opera
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Encyclopedic overview
Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, romanized: Knyaz Igor, listen) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin.
The composer adapted the libretto from the early Russian epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of the 12th-century prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Cuman ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185. He also incorporated material drawn from two medieval Kievan chronicles. The opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887 and was edited and completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. It was first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1890.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prince Igor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.