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Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer (1839–1881)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Boris Godunov (opera)
Opera by Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mariinsky Theatre
Opera and ballet theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic opera house in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th-century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres. Through…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Saint Petersburg
Federal city in Russia
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With an area of 1,439 sq km, Saint Petersburg is the smallest…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
January 27
Day of the year
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