 20th century and beyond

The opera was also produced in Barcelona (1829), Vienna (1836), Berlin (1837), and Budapest (1839), but was then ignored until 1973, when it was staged in the town of its setting, now called Zaandam, where it received nine performances and was recorded.Peter the Great was the tsar of Russia between 1672 and 1725.After his mother's death in 1694, he made a series of crucial reforms for Russia that in consequence became a great power.