Make Music Part of Your Life: Nicolai Glinka – Russlan and Ludmilla Overture – Performance by Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.

Performance by Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Mikhail Glinka
Ruslan and Lyudmila (Russian: Руслан и Людмила, Ruslan i Lyudmila) is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842. The opera is based on the 1820 poem of the same name byAlexander Pushkin. The Russian libretto was written by Valerian Shirkov, Nestor Kukolnik and N. A. Markevich, among others. Pushkin’s death in the famous duel prevented him from writing the libretto himself as planned. Today, the best-known music from the opera is its overture.

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