HIGHLIGHTS FROM RUSSIAN OPERAS

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A Life for the Czar (excerpts) (more info)
Performed by: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Conducted by: Alexander Vedernikov
Vladimir Matorin, bass


1. Act II: Polonaise and Chorus: Bog vojnyi posle bitv… (After the Battle the God of War) - 4:39
2. Act IV: Tchujut pravdu! (They sense the truth!), "Ivan Susanin's aria" - 5:08


Rusalka, Act III (excerpts) (more info)
Performed by: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky
Conducted by: Alexander Vedernikov
Mikhail Gubsky, tenor
Alexander Naumenko, bass


3. Act III: Nevol'no k etim grustnyim berega?& (Some unknown power), "Prince's cavatina" - 6:00
4. Act III: Chto eto znachit? (What does this mean?), "Mad scene" - 11:39


Iolanthe, Op. 69: Net, charyi lask krasyi myatezhnoj, "Vaudemont's Romance" (more info)
Performed by: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conducted by: Alexander Vedernikov
Vsevolod Grivnov, tenor


5. Iolanthe, Op. 69: Net, charyi lask krasyi myatezhnoj, "Vaudemont's Romance" - 4:14


Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades), Op. 68: Act III: Uzh polnoch blizitsya, "Lisa's aria" (more info)
Performed by: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conducted by: Alexander Vedernikov
Elena Zelenskaya, soprano


6. Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades), Op. 68: Act III: Uzh polnoch blizitsya, "Lisa's aria" - 5:14


Mazeppa, Act II: O Marija, Marija, "Mazeppa's Arioso" (more info)
Performed by: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conducted by: Alexander Vedernikov
Yuri Nechaev, baritone


7. Mazeppa, Act II: O Marija, Marija, "Mazeppa's Arioso" - 5:12


Aleko: Volsebnoy siloy pesnopen'ya (The Magic Power of Song), "Old Gipsy's Story" (more info)
Performed by: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Sergei Rachmaninov
Conducted by: Alexander Vedernikov
Taras Shtonda, bass


8. Aleko: Volsebnoy siloy pesnopen'ya (The Magic Power of Song), "Old Gipsy's Story" - 5:25


Prince Igor, Act II (excerpts) (more info)
Performed by: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Composed by: Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin
Conducted by: Alexander Vedernikov
Valery Gilmanov, bass
Yuri Nechaev, baritone


9. Act II: Ni sna me otdykha (No sleep no rest), "Prince Igor's aria" - 6:53
10. Act II: Zdorov li, knyaz? (Are you in good health, Prince?), "Konchak's aria" - 6:31
11. Act II: Recitative: Gey, privesti syuda! (Hey, bring the captive girls here!) - 2:57
12. Act II: Polovtsian Dances - 11:40

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