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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840 - 1893 RU 2*
List of operas
  1. Undina - 3 acts
    • Libretto by Vladimir Sollogub based on 'Ondine' by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
    • First performance in 1869
  2. The Voyevoda - 3 acts
    • Libretto by Aleksandr Ostrovsky based on play The Voyevoda (A Dream on the Volga) by Aleksandr Ostrovsky
    • First performance at Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow on 11 February 1869
  3. The Oprichnik - 4 acts
    • Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky based on the tragedy 'The Oprichniks' by Ivan Lazhechnikov
    • First performance at Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow on 24 April 1874
  4. Vakula the Smith - 3 acts
    • Libretto by Yakov Polonsky based on the story 'Christmas Eve' by Nikolai Gogol
    • First performance at Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 6 December 1876
  5. Eugene Onegin 1* - 3 acts - Russian
    • Libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Modest Tchaikovsky
    • First performance at Moscow Conservatory on 29 March 1879
  6. Orleanskaya deva - Grand opéra - 4 acts
    • Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky based on 'The Maid of Orleans' by Friedrich Schiller; 'Jeanne d’Arc' (Joan of Arc) by Jules Barbier; the libretto by Auguste Mermet his own opera and on the biography of Joan of Arc by Henri Wallon
    • First performance at Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 25 February 1881
  7. Mazeppa - 3 acts - Russian
    • Libretto by Victor Burenin based on the poem Poltava by Pushkin
    • First performance at Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow on 25 February 1884
  8. Cherevichki - 4 acts
    • Libretto by Yakov Polonsky based on the story 'Christmas Eve' by Nikolai Gogol
    • First performance at Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow on 31 January 1887
  9. The Enchantress - 4 acts
    • Libretto by Ippolit Shpazhinsky
    • First performance at Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 1 November 1887
  10. Pikovaya dama 1* - 3 acts - Russian
    • Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky based on a story by Alexander Pushkin
    • First performance at Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 19 December 1890
  11. Iolanta - Russian
    • Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky based on the Danish play Kong Renés Datter (King René’s Daughter) by Henrik Hertz
    • First performance at Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg on 18 December 1892
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