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The Voyevoda (opera)

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A complete recording of the opera has been issued on the Aquarius CD label, with Vladimir Kozhukhar conducting soloists with the Academic Grand Chorus of Central Television and All-Union Radio and the State Symphonic Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of
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Eduard Merten became 2nd conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre shortly before 1870. He was "a talented pianist and composed romances, but was completely inexperienced as a conductor" (Kashkin,
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The lively, sometimes dramatic, overture has occasionally been performed and recorded. It is one of the few works of Tchaikovsky to be performed by
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in a broadcast performance that was preserved on transcription discs. The overture, as well as the entr'acte and dances, was also included in
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The opera was composed between March 1867 and July 1868, and it received its first performance on 11 February
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was posthumously reconstructed from surviving orchestral and vocal parts and the composer's sketches.
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This article is about the 1869 Tchaikovsky's opera. For the 1891 Tchaikovsky's homonymous work, see
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the manuscript full score of the opera, while recycling much of the first act in his
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East Meats West; The Russian Trumpet Tradition from the Time of Peter the Great
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for orchestra (1865), and were also arranged for piano duet by Tchaikovsky.
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Cover of P. Yurgenson's edition of four-hand transcription of the Overture
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Under the pseudonym "Cramer", Tchaikovsky composed a
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Tchaikovsky's symphonic ballad in A minor, entitled
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Index

The Voyevoda (symphonic ballad)
Opera
Tchaikovsky

Alexander Ostrovsky
Bolshoi Theatre
Russian
listen
Op.
opera
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
libretto
Alexander Ostrovsky
Russian
Воевода (Сон на Волге)
Bolshoi Theatre
Alexandra Menshikova
destroyed
The Oprichnik
Anton Arensky
Dream on the Volga
bass
soprano
tenor
baritone
mezzo-soprano
Voyevoda (opera) Tchaikovsky Research
Volga River
Tchaikovsky Research
Potpourri

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