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Nikolai Vekov
Nikolai Dmitryevich Vekov (russian: Николай Дмитриевич Веков; November 26, 1870 — 1930s) was a Russian opera and operetta artist (baritone) and director. He was one of the most popular artists of his time. Biography From the family priest. In 1892 he graduated from the Orenburg Teacher's Institute. In 1894-1897 he sang in the Moscow Synodal Choir. In 1895-1901, he studied singing at the Moscow Conservatory (teachers Camille Everardi and Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya). Since 1900, he performed in the troupe of the Association of Moscow Private Russian Opera. In 1901, after graduating from the Moscow Conservatory with a small silver medal, he first continued to work there, until 1904, simultaneously with 1903 speaking in concerts of the Mug of Russian music lovers with the performance of romances, and then (1904-1911) he entered the Zimin Opera. Worked on provincial scenes. He was a director at the Sofia Folk Opera, later taught. Worked on provincial scenes. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherevichki
''Cherevichki'' (russian: Черевички , ua, Черевички, ''Cherevichki'', ''Čerevički'', ''The Slippers''; alternative renderings are ''The Little Shoes'', ''The Tsarina's Slippers'', ''The Empress's Slippers'', ''The Golden Slippers'', ''The Little Slippers'', ''Les caprices d'Oxane'', and ''Gli stivaletti'') is a comic-fantastic opera in 4 acts, 8 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed in 1885 in Maidanovo, Russia. The libretto was written by Yakov Polonsky, and is based on the story "Christmas Eve", part of the 1832 collection ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'', by Nikolai Gogol. The opera is a revision of Tchaikovsky's earlier opera ''Vakula the Smith''. The work was first performed in 1887 in Moscow. Composition history The opera was composed between February and April 1885 at Maidanovo. Both ''Vakula the Smith'' and ''Cherevichki'' were set to Polonsky's libretto, which was originally intended for Alexander Serov, but had remained unused on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |