Turkish and Arabian dances are performed at the arrival of Chernomor, the dwarf sorcerer who has kidnapped the love interest of Farlaf, Ratmir, and the titular male lead.
Act I of this opera imitates the sound of the gusli using the piano and harp as the characters partake of a wedding feast in Svetozar's banquet hall. In Act II, its hero sings "Oh field, field, who has strewn you with dead men's bones," before encountering a giant talking head, after Farlaf sings the aria "The hour of my triumph is near" when Naine agrees to help him retrieve the titular missing bride. Turkish and Arabian dances are performed at the arrival of Chernomor, the dwarf sorcerer who has kidnapped the love interest of Farlaf, Ratmir, and the titular male lead. A poem by Aleksander Pushkin inspired, FTP, which opera about a pair of lovers by Mikhail Glinka?
Act I of this opera imitates the sound of the gusli using the piano and harp as the characters partake of a wedding feast in Svetozar's banquet hall.
{Ruslan} and {Lyudmila}