Which novel was the opera at which Artyom Melikhov has his first appearance based?
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Artyom Melikhov Artyom Melikhov is a Russian tenor singer who was born in Saint Petersburg. He graduated from both the Glinka Choral School and Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he was under guidance from Yelizaveta Kudryavtseva till 2006. In 2008 under guidance from Valery Gergiev he played a role of one of the Japanese envoys in "Le Rossignol" opera and during the same year played a soloist role in "Chimes" at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2009 he had his first appearance with Mariinsky Theatre where he played in an opera called "War and Peace". That year was followed by such 2010 debuts as the "The Mystery of the Apostle Paul" in which he sang in a role of "Nero" at the Mariinsky Theatre and another "War and Peace" performance, this time at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2011 he became the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers soloist and the same year performed the role of "Ovlur" in an opera called "Prince Igor" following by his appearance in "Dead Souls" and "Ariadne auf Naxos". In May 2013 he was "Rienzi" performer at the Saratov Opera under Alexei Stepanyuk's baton and the same year sang at the Carmina Burana opera after which he went on a tour to Naples where he performed at the Teatro di San Carlo.
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War and Peace (opera) War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир , "Voyna i mir") is an opera in two parts (an Epigraph and 13 scenes), sometimes arranged as five acts, by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson, based on the novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. Although Tolstoy's work is classified as a novel, the 1812 invasion of Russia by the French was based on real-life events, and some real-life people appear as characters in both the novel and the opera, e.g. Prince Mikhail Kutuzov and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The Lodger (opera) The Lodger is an opera in two acts composed by Phyllis Tate. The libretto is by David Franklin, after the 1913 novel of the same name by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. The opera was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, with a grant from the William Manson Fund, and the premiere took place there on 16 July 1960.
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Vincent (opera) Vincent is an opera in three acts by Einojuhani Rautavaara first performed in 1990. The libretto is by the composer, and consists of scenes from the life of the artist Vincent van Gogh, told in retrospect.
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Ashig Garib (opera) Ashig Garib (Azerbaijani: "Aşıq Qərib" ) – is the first opera written by Azerbaijani composer Zulfugar Hajibeyov, in 1916, based on motifs of a dastan of the same name. The opera was staged in Baku, in the theater of Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, for the first time.
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Orpheus und Eurydike Orpheus und Eurydike ("Orpheus and Eurydice") is an opera by Ernst Krenek. The German text is based on a play by Oskar Kokoschka. Kokoschka began writing his play during his convalescence (from wounds received on the Ukrainian front in 1915) and it premiered in 1921, one year before Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus appeared. In 1923 he let it be known that he was looking for a composer to write incidental music. Kokoschka's expressionist, psychological treatment of the Orpheus myth, marked by his passion for Alma Mahler, appealed to Krenek so he approached Kokoschka.
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Khovanshchina Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина , "Hovánščina", sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair; since the ending -ščina is pejorative) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was unfinished and unperformed when the composer died in 1881.
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The Golden Cockerel The Golden Cockerel (Russian: Золотой петушок , "Zolotoy petushok") is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Its libretto, by Vladimir Belsky, derives from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel", which in turn is based on two chapters of "Tales of the Alhambra" by Washington Irving. The opera was completed in 1907 and premiered in 1909 in Moscow, after the composer's death. Outside Russia it has often been performed in French as "Le coq d'or".
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Masons (novel) Masons (Russian: Масоны ) is a novel by Alexey Pisemsky started in the late 1878 and first published in 1880 in "Ogonyok" magazine (Nos. 1-6, 8-43). Pisemsky who regarded the Freemasonry as a progressive force in Russia of the 1820s and 1830s based the narrative upon his personal childhood memories of the people he knew (among them his uncle Yury Bartenev) who belonged to the lodge.
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Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn ("Peter Schmoll and his Neighbours") is the third opera by Carl Maria von Weber and the first for which the music has survived, though the libretto has not. It was written in 1802 when the composer was only 15 and premiered in Augsburg the following year. The opera takes the form of a Singspiel, mixing spoken dialogue and musical numbers. The libretto is based on a novel by C.G. Cramer.
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Die Maccabäer Die Maccabäer ("German, The Maccabees") (sometimes spelt 'Die Makkabäer') is an opera in three acts by Anton Rubinstein to a libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal. The opera is based on a play by Otto Ludwig, which is itself based loosely on the biblical story of the Maccabees. Written in 1872-74, it was first performed on 17 April 1875 at the Hofoper, Berlin. Censorship problems prevented its performance in Russia until January 1877 (in St.Petersburg).
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Sadko (film) Sadko (Russian: Садко ) is a 1952 Russian fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. The film is based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian "bylina "(epic tale) with the same name, and scored with Rimsky-Korsakov's music from the opera.
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Boris Godunov (opera) Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов , "Borís Godunóv") is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar (1598 to 1605) during the Time of Troubles, and his nemesis, the False Dmitriy (reigned 1605 to 1606). The Russian-language libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the drama "Boris Godunov" by Aleksandr Pushkin, and, in the Revised Version of 1872, on Nikolay Karamzin's "History of the Russian State".
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Yaroslav Mudriy Yaroslav Mudriy (English: "Yaroslav the Wise") is an opera in eight scenes, comprised in three acts, by the Ukrainian composer Heorhiy Maiboroda, written in 1973 and premiered in 1975. The composer himself adapted the libretto from a dramatic poem by Ivan Kocherga.
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Russian: "Леди Макбет Мценского уезда" , or "Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda") is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Opus 29. The libretto, jointly written by Alexander Preys and the composer, is based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Leskov. (The opera is incorrectly named "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" on several commercial CD and DVD recordings.)
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Mathis der Maler (opera) Mathis der Maler ("Matthias the Painter") is an opera by Paul Hindemith. The opera's genesis lay in Hindemith's interest in the Reformation. The work's protagonist, Matthias Grünewald, was an actual historical figure who flourished in that era, and whose art, in particular the Isenheim Altarpiece, inspired many creative figures in the early 20th century, including Joris-Karl Huysmans's novel "Là-bas".
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La caverne (Méhul) La caverne ("The Cavern") is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It takes the form of a "comédie en prose" in three acts. It premiered at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 5 December 1795. The libretto, by Nicolas-Julien Forgeot, is based on incidents from the novel "Gil Blas" by Alain-René Lesage.
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Ivanhoe (opera) Ivanhoe is a romantic opera in three acts based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Julian Sturgis. It premiered at the Royal English Opera House on 31 January 1891 for a consecutive run of 155 performances, unheard of for a grand opera. Later that year it was performed six more times, making a total of 161 performances.
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La Périchole La Périchole (] ) is an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the French-language libretto based on the 1829 one act play "Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement" by Prosper Mérimée, which was revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français. Offenbach was probably aware of this production, as he conducted the orchestra of the Comédie-Française from around this time. Another theatrical creation that pre-dates Offenbach's opéra bouffe and may have influenced the piece is a farce by Desforges and Théaulon given on 21 October 1835 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.
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Anyuta Anyuta (Russian: Аню́та ) is a one-act comic opera to a libretto by Mikhail Popov. First performed in 1772, it was one of the first operas written in the Russian language.
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The Nose (opera) The Nose (Russian: Нос , Nos), is Shostakovich's first opera, a satirical work completed in 1928 based on Nikolai Gogol's story of the same name (1836).
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Senza sangue Senza sangue (Without blood) an opera in one act by Péter Eötvös with a libretto by Mari Mezei. It is based on the second part of the novel of the same name by Alessandro Baricco and is intended to be performed jointly with Béla Bartók's one-act "Bluebeard's Castle". The concert première was given by the Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra on 1 May 2015. It was premièred in full on 15 May 2016 at the Festival d'Avignon. It is his tenth opera. Anne Sofie von Otter, who gave the New York première with the New York Philharmonic, said: "“The piece is not at all easy for the two singers... [It’s] hard to find the pitch; you have to work it into the voice, unless of course you happen to have perfect pitch, which I don’t."