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A Life for the Tsar
also: Жизнь за царя, Ivan Susanin
Mikhail Glinka's 1836 opera, widely regarded as the foundational work of Russian national opera; a Bolshoi repertoire staple that Masha reports seeing three times.
Reading notes
- To Yu. I. Lyadova, 18 November 1879. Moscow. §5 A Life for the Tsar
Mikhail Glinka's 1836 opera (originally titled after the peasant hero Ivan Susanin), widely considered the foundational work of Russian national opera; a staple of the Bolshoi repertoire that Masha reports seeing three times.