Russian Opera Masterworks (14CD)

Russian Opera: Masterworks [Box Set]

1. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, opera (Rimsky-Korsakov edition) [2:39:36]
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, Bolshoi Theater Chorus,
Nikhander Khanaev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Sergei Krasovsky, Yelena Kruglikova, Vassily Lubenzov, Maria Maksakova, Maxim Mikhailov, Georgei Nelepp, Alexander Pirogov, Alexandra Turtshina, Yevgenia Verbitskaya, Bronislava Zlatogorova, Vassily Yakushenko
Conducted by Nikolai Golovanov
Recorded 1948

2. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, opera, Op. 24 [2:19:40]
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, Bolshoi Theater Chorus
Larissa Avdeyeva, Eugene Belov, Sergei Lemeshev, Ivan Petrov, Yevgenia Verbitskaya, Galina Vishnevskaya, Igor Mikhailov, Valentina Petrova, Nikolai Timchenko, Georgy Pankov and Andrei Sokolov
Conducted by Boris Khaikin
Recorded 1956

3. Borodin: Prince Igor, opera (completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov) [2:41:26]
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, Bolshoi Theater Chorus
Andrei Ivanov, Sergei Lemeshev, Alexander Pirogov, Veronika Borisenko, Mark Reizen, Evgeniya Smolenskaya
Conducted by Alexander Melik-Pashaev
Recorded 1951

4. Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades), opera, Op. 68 [2:36:35]
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, Bolshoi Theater Chorus
Nikhander Khanaev, Maria Maksakova, Bronislava Zlatogorova, Valeriya Barssova, Xenia Derzhinskaya, Panteleimon Nortzov, Vladimir Politkovsky, Sergei Ostroumov, Alexander Baturin, Ivan Manshavin, Piotr Bellinik, Nadezhda Chubienko, Mikhail Novozhenini, Margareta Shervinskaya and Konstantin Terekhin
Conducted by Samuel Samosud
Recorded 1940

5. Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, opera in 3 (or 5) acts [2:34:55]
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, Bolshoi Theater Chorus
Larissa Avdeyeva, Valentina Levko, Vladimir Filippov, Vera Firssova, Victor Gorbunov, Vladimir Petrov, Nikolai Zakharov and Alexei Ghelieva
Conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded 11/12/1964