He wrote his own libretto for his opera about the guardsman of Ivan the Terrible, The Oprichnik.
He's not Giuseppe Verdi, but this composer used a Friedrich Schiller play for the basis for his opera about Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans. He wrote his own libretto for his opera about the guardsman of Ivan the Terrible, The Oprichnik. Tatyana does not return the title character's love in his (*) Eugene Onegin, while another of his operas ends with Hermann killing himself after seeing the titular card. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of The Queen of Spades who also composed the 1812 Overture.
He's not Giuseppe Verdi, but this composer used a Friedrich Schiller play for the basis for his opera about Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans.
Pyotr Ilyich {Tchaikovsky} [or Peter Ilich {Tchaikovsky}]