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