Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

The Sunday Opera: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Snow Maiden"

Michael Kownacky

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is the featured composer on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/13 3:00 p.m.) and his 1881 work based on a Russian folk legend. “The Snow Maiden” is an allegorical story dealing with the conflict of “eternal forces of nature” involving the interactions of humans, mythological characters, and those who are a combination of the two. It was said to have been Rimsky-Korsakov’s favorite opera.

Fevroniya sees the Invisible City of Kitezh after hearing the prophesy of immortality from Sirin.

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The Sunday Opera: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya"

Michael Kownacky

This week's opera is the four-act opera from 1907 by Rimsky-Korsakov that adapts two Russian folk legends for its libretto by Vladimir Belsky.

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The Dress Circle: Songs from TV Musicals - Part 2

Ted Otten

We're continuing our look at musicals written for television with four more - two from 1957 "The Adventures of Marco Polo" which adapted music by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" which used themes by Edvard Grieg, one from 1958, "Little Women" by Richard Adler, and a version of "Pinocchio" entitled "Geppetto" featuring music by Stephen Schwartz.