''The Grey Legend'' (Седая легенда) is a 1978 Russian-language opera by

Dmitry Smolsky Dmitry Smolski (July 25, 1937 – September 29, 2017) was a Belarusian composer, Honored Artist of Belorussian SSR (1975), laureate of the State Prize of BSSR (1980), National Artist of the Republic of Belarus (1987), laureate of the Order of Fr ...

based on the Belarusian novel by

Uladzimir Karatkievich Uladzimir Karatkievich ( be, Уладзімір Сямёнавіч Караткевіч; russian: link=no, Владимир Семёнович Короткевич) (26 November 1930 – 25 July 1984) was a Belarusian romantic writer. Biog ...

.Bolshoi Belarus
"According to the decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus ‘On awarding State Prizes of the Republic of Belarus in 2016’ in the area of literature, art and architecture, State Prizes were awarded to the artists of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus Oksana Volkova, Anastasia Moskvina, Stanislav Trifonov, Sergey Frankovsky, Nina Lomanovich and Alexander Kostiuchenko for considerable creative accomplishments in the development of musical art, promotion of spiritual values and significant personal contribution to the production of The Grey Legend to the music by Dmitry Smolsky, based on the novel by Vladimir Korotkevich."

Recordings

*Aria: Hoary Legend "Ti pripomni jak lotaz kalisti u lugah mi zbirali" (Remember how we once plucked marigolds in the meadows) :15Oksana Volkova, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, cond. Constantin Orbelian. Delos.

References

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