Antoninda's father, Ivan Susanin, sacrifices himself to foil the Polish plot in, FTP, what 1836 opera by Glinka?
Set in the early seventeenth century, this opera's title character spends most of the opera hiding in a monastery. The man who spurs the action is Sobinin, who cannot marry his beloved Antoninda until her father is certain that a true tsar sits on the throne. The plot twists in the second act when it is revealed that a group of Poles are plotting to make a Pole tsar by capturing the chosen Russian tsar. Antoninda's father, Ivan Susanin, sacrifices himself to foil the Polish plot in, FTP, what 1836 opera by Glinka?
Set in the early seventeenth century, this opera's title character spends most of the opera hiding in a monastery.
A {Life for the Tsar} (prompt on {Ivan Susanin})