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From: Opera News
Date: 19990401
Author:Melick, Jennifer
All across Russia this year, the 200th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin is being celebrated. But although Pushkin (1799-1837) is considered by many to be the Russian Shakespeare, he has never enjoyed wide popularity in the West. Instead, it is through operas based on his poetry and prose that he is best known. An abbreviated list might include RimskyKorsakov's Czar Saltan and Le Coq d'Or, Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mazeppa and The Queen of Spades.
The source for the last of these is a mysterious short story told in tones ...
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