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15 March 2010. Early pool, cool shadows...
Boris Shtokolov as Ivan Susanin, the legendary peasant martyr hero who led the new Tsar Michael's Lithuanian/Polish pursuers deeper and deeper into the Russian woods, where on a particularly cold February night in 1612 all perished. Glinka's opera based on these events--which premiered in 1835. Nicholas I being in attendance, Glinka changed the title to Zhizn' za tsarya--A Life for the Tsar, but after the 1917 Revolution the opera again became known as Ivan Susanin...
Russian folk melodies throughout...
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