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The Snow Maiden: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Eduard Nápravník, Viktor Vasnetsov, Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Korovin, Bolshoi Theatre - Couverture souple

 
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Synopsis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Snow Maiden–A Spring Fairy Tale (Russian: Снегурочка–Ве�енн�� �казка, Snegúrochka–Vesennyaya Skazka) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880-1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky (which had premiered in 1873 with incidental music by Tchaikovsky). The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov''s opera took place at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1882 (Old Style) conducted by Eduard Nápravník. By 1898 it was revised in the edition known today. It remained the composer''s own favorite work. The story deals with the opposition of eternal forces of nature and involves the interactions of mythological characters (Frost, Spring, Wood-Sprite), real people (Kupava, Mizgir''), and those in-between, i.e., half-mythical, half-real (Snow Maiden, Lel’, Berendey). The composer strove to distinguish each group of characters musically, and several individual characters have their own associated leitmotifs. In addition to these distinctions, Rimsky-Korsakov characterized the townspeople particularly with folk melodies.

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