Saturday Night at the Opera playlist for 02/24/2013  Connie Chen
Artist Title Album Label Link Mikhail Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmila
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; Yuri
Simonov, conductor Melodiya 74321 29348 2  Mikhail Glinka's
"Ruslan and Lyudmila," 1842 - the work that marked the birth of
Russian national opera. Libretto by the composer and Valeryan
Shirkov after the poem by Alexander Pushkin. Recording: Moscow,
Bolshoi Theatre, 1978/79.  Grand Prince Svetozar - Valery
Yaroslavtsev, bass Lyudmila, Svetozr's daughter - Bela Rudenko,
soprano Ruslan, Kievan knight - Yevgeny Nesterenko, bass Ratmir,
Khazar prince - Tamara Sinyavskaya, mezzo-soprano Farlaf,
Varangian knight - Boris Morozov, bass Gorislava, Ratmir's slave
- Nina Fomina, soprano