Life for the Tsar, A [Zhizn’ za tsarya; Ivan Susanin]
- Richard Taruskin
Extract
‘Patriotic heroic-tragic opera’ in five acts (or four acts with epilogue) by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka to a libretto by Baron Yegor Fyodorovich, Baron Rozen, Vladimir Sollogub, Nestor Vasil’yevich Kukol’nik and Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky; St Petersburg, Bol’shoy Theatre, 27 November/9 December 1836 (as Ivan Susanin...