A Life for the Tsar. М.И.Глинка опера “Жизнь за царя“ (“Иван Сусанин“)
A Life for the Tsar
An Opera in tour Acts
Music by Mikhail Glinka
from the Bolshoi theatre Moscow
Text by baron G. F. Rosen
In a version by Evgeny Levashov
Producer Nicolai Kuznetsov
Designer Valery Levental
Ivan Susanin, a peasant Evgeny Nesterenko
Antonida, Susanin’s daughter Marina Mescheriakova
history
Historians rarely mention that Glinka’s masterpiece was inspired by a previous opera, Ivan Susanin, by the Russianized Italian composer Catterino Cavos, staged