In one of his operas, the title character is actually the disguise of a housemaid donned in an attempt to get close to Parasha by her boyfriend, the hussar Vassili.
In one of his operas, the title character is actually the disguise of a housemaid donned in an attempt to get close to Parasha by her boyfriend, the hussar Vassili. That opera, Mavra, was completed five years before he began another that begins with the chorus, "Caedit no Pestis," a quasi-oratorio with a libretto written by Jean Cocteau after Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Disagreement exists as to the classification of some of his works as opera or musical theater, but the consensus is that his first opera was the Chinese-styled The Nightingale, completed in 1914, and that his biggest success was an opera containing the characters Nick Shadow, Anne Trulove, and Baba the Turk. FTP, name this Russian who drew from Hogarth's pictorial saga of Tom Rakewell for his opera, The Rake's Progress, and also composed The Rite of Spring.
In one of his operas, the title character is actually the disguise of a housemaid donned in an attempt to get close to Parasha by her boyfriend, the hussar Vassili.
Igor {Stravinsky}