 It was first performed at the Cincinnati Music Hall, starring Dorothy Short and Robert Kircher.Vissarion Shebalin's "Ukroshchenye stroptivoy" (1957), with libretto by Abram Akimovich Gozenpud, was Shebalin's last opera and was immediately hailed as a masterpiece throughout Russia.Dominick Argento's "Christopher Sly" (1962), with libretto by John Manlove, is a comic opera in two scenes and an interlude, first performed in the University of Minnesota.